Disclosure Day is great. But if the US had secretly abused aliens for 80 years, no one would bat an eyelid

Spielberg’s sci-fi blockbuster starring Emily Blunt and Josh O’Connor overestimates the empathy humans feel for any groups we see as ‘other’

Steven Spielberg has converted his longstanding fascination with the possible existence of aliens into considerable commercial and critical success and now, 49 years after Close Encounters and 44 after ET, the film-maker has returned to the subject for the sci-fi spectacular Disclosure Day.

The film follows cybersecurity expert Daniel Kellner (Josh O’Connor) and weather presenter Margaret Fairchild (Emily Blunt) as they become state-secret whistleblowers, working with Hugo (Colman Domingo) to expose nearly eight decades’ worth of evidence that the US government has known about extraterrestrial life.
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