There are few directors out there who can sell a summer blockbuster on name alone these days, but Steven Spielberg was the OG for this, and 51 years on from Jaws, he’s still the master of it. After decades of shaping what audiences expect from blockbusters, aliens, adventure, historical drama, and movie magic, Spielberg’s latest movie has arrived with a level of curiosity we’ve not seen in some time. He’s a master of cinema, but science fiction and Spielberg have always been the most spectacular of chums. But are they still best friends? Or is there trouble in paradise?
The cast of Disclosure Day includes Emily Blunt (A Quiet Place) as Margaret Fairchild, Josh O’Connor (Challengers) as Daniel Kellner, Colin Firth (The King’s Speech) as Noah Scanlon, Eve Hewson (Bad Sisters) as Jane, Colman Domingo (Rustin) as Hugo Wakefield, and Wyatt Russell (Monarch: Legacy of Monsters) as Jackson. The film also reunites Spielberg with some major longtime collaborators. Janusz Kamiński serves as cinematographer, while John Williams returns to compose the score.
The movie follows Margaret, a Kansas City TV meteorologist whose life begins to unravel after strange childhood experiences leave her with abilities she can’t control. Daniel, a recently released cybercriminal who discovers that a secret organization called Wardex may be hiding the existence of extraterrestrial life from the world.
Collider Exclusive · Sci-Fi Personality Quiz Which Sci-Fi Hero Are You Most Like? Paul Atreides · Captain Kirk · Princess Leia · Ellen Ripley · Max Rockatansky
Five iconic heroes. Five completely different ways of facing an impossible universe. One of them shares your instincts, your values, and your particular way of refusing to back down. Eight questions will tell you which one.
Paul Atreides
Capt. Kirk
Princess Leia
Ellen Ripley
Max Rockatansky
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How do you lead when the stakes couldn’t be higher? The way you lead under pressure is the most honest thing about you.
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What is your greatest strength in a crisis? The quality that keeps you alive when everything else fails.
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What is the thing you’d sacrifice everything else for? Your deepest motivation is your truest compass.
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How do you relate to the people around you? Who you are to others under pressure is who you really are.
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You’re facing a threat that no one else believes is real. What do you do? How you respond when you’re the only one who sees it defines everything.
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What has your heroism cost you personally? Every hero pays. The question is what — and whether they’d pay it again.
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How do you feel about the rules of the world you’re in? Every hero has a relationship with the system. What’s yours?
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When everything is on the line, what keeps you going? The answer is the most honest thing about you.
Your Hero Has Been Identified Your Sci-Fi Hero Is…
Your answers point to the iconic sci-fi hero who shares your instincts, your values, and your particular way of facing the impossible.
Arrakis · Dune
Paul Atreides
You carry a weight most people would crumble under — the knowledge of what you’re capable of, and the burden of what you might have to become.
You see further ahead than others and you plan accordingly, even when the vision frightens you.
You are driven by loyalty to your people and a sense of destiny you didn’t ask for but can’t escape.
Paul Atreides is not simply a hero — he is someone who understands the cost of power and chooses to bear it anyway.
That gravity, that willingness to carry what others won’t, is exactly you.
USS Enterprise · Star Trek
Captain Kirk
You lead with instinct, warmth, and an absolute refusal to accept a no-win scenario — because you’ve always believed there’s a third option nobody else has thought of yet.
You take the mission seriously without ever taking yourself too seriously.
Your crew would follow you anywhere, not because you demand it, but because you’ve earned it.
Kirk’s genius isn’t tactical — it’s human. He reads people, bends rules with purpose, and wills outcomes into existence through sheer conviction.
That combination of warmth, audacity, and relentless optimism is unmistakably yours.
The Rebellion · Star Wars
Princess Leia
You are the kind of person who holds the line when everyone else is losing faith — not because you’re fearless, but because giving up simply isn’t something you’re capable of.
You lead through conviction. Your voice carries because your belief is unshakeable.
You gave up everything ordinary the moment you chose the cause, and you’ve never looked back.
Leia is not a supporting character in her own story — she is the moral centre of the entire rebellion.
That same fierce, principled, unbreakable core is what defines you.
The Nostromo · Alien
Ellen Ripley
You are not reckless, not grandiose, and not particularly interested in being anyone’s hero — you just refuse to stop when it matters.
You see threats clearly, you document the truth even when no one listens, and when the time comes you handle it yourself.
Ripley’s heroism is earned, not performed. She doesn’t have a speech — she has a flamethrower and a plan.
You share her composure under the worst possible pressure, and her refusal to pretend the monster isn’t there.
When it counts, you don’t flinch. That’s everything.
The Wasteland · Mad Max
Max Rockatansky
You have been through fire that would break most people — and what came out the other side is something the world underestimates at its peril.
You don’t ask for help, don’t need validation, and don’t wait for anyone to tell you the rules no longer apply.
Your loyalty, when it finally arrives, is absolute — but it’s earned in silence and tested in action, not in words.
Max is not a nihilist. He is someone who lost everything and found, against his will, that he still has something worth protecting.
That bruised, stubborn, ultimately human core is exactly yours.
Is ‘Disclosure Day’ Any Good?
The first reviews are now in for Disclosure Day, and the film has been hailed as across reviews. The movie opens in theaters on June 12 and brings Spielberg back to a summer release window for the first time in a decade, with longtime collaborator David Koepp penning the screenplay. The film is currently sitting at 90% on Rotten Tomatoes from 58 reviews, while Metcritic has it at 77, at time of writing.
One thing’s for certain, Blunt is being hailed as the heart and soul of the film, with many stating that it brings a career-best performance from the Englishwoman. The Irish Independent labeled Blunt as “utterly awesome”, London’s Evening Standard described her as “sparkling”, and RogerEbert.com states, “Blunt’s performance can sometimes feel big, but it’s also remarkably nuanced, particularly in the amount of work she has to do without lines when she looks into the eyes of another character whose life she can “see.”
Some reviews have described the film as “flat”, or “clunky” but add that there’s more than enough moments of wonder and awe from Spielberg to make it work. The film is also said to be more thoughtful and paranoid than expected, and well worth a watch.
Collider’s Nate Richard praised the film as a major return for Spielberg, writing that Disclosure Day “gave me exactly what I wanted from his return to the alien movie.” Richard noted that the film isn’t quite the straightforward alien movie some viewers may expect, instead describing it as closer in spirit to Minority Report and A.I. Artificial Intelligence than E.T. or Close Encounters of the Third Kind.
