Disclosure Day (2026) Movie Review

Hello everyone and welcome to the concession stand here on the KB radio network.

I am your host Kevin Reed and this ladies and gentlemen is the review of the new science fiction thriller directed by the great the legendary

Steven Spielberg.

This closure day this film stars Emily Blunt,

Josh O'Connor,

Colin Firth.

carmen domingo eve hewson and this film asks everyone the question if you found out we weren't alone would someone if someone showed you prove to you that we're not alone would

it frighten you this is a very interesting take on the ufo alien debate i mean do you really want to know

I mean,

deep down,

do everybody really want to know if there are aliens out there,

if there are extraterrestrials out there?

How would that change your view on life in general?

And this film asks those questions.

I really wasn't expecting it.

This movie was very vague in its promotion in the lead up to its release.

Didn't really give much information.

You knew it had...

something to do with aliens and you know the government trying to cover it up and all that good stuff that's all fine and good plus steven spielberg aliens where can you go wrong i mean come on uh close encounters of the third kind uh

et less said about crystal skull the better but when steven spielberg dives into these alien questions it's always an event

And we're in the middle of the summer movie season where,

I mean,

this is the time of the year,

the blockbuster movie season that

Steven Spielberg gave birth to well over,

what,

40 years ago?

With Jaws?

So,

for him to return in the summertime to give us this type of film,

yes,

sign me up.

This movie,

I must say.

i enjoyed immensely this was a return to form to steven spielberg do i feel this was one of spielberg's best no i don't think it's one of his greatest films but it's definitely his best films of the last 20 years this

was a return to form man i i was so you could feel spielberg all over this movie i mean he

He wrote the story.

He came up with the concept.

He directed,

produced.

He had his fingers all through this,

and you felt it in every frame of this movie.

Let's talk about the cast of this film,

starting with Emily Blunt.

This was one of the best Emily Blunt performances ever,

ever.

I fully expect.

to hear her name around award season towards the end of the year and the beginning of next year this is a powerful performance by her and she was funny she was uh emotional she every emotion you can think of that character gave us and it was beautifully

beautifully performed by emily blunt i mean she had a lot of heavy lifting to do because emily blunt's character without getting into spoilers and all that good stuff.

Her character had to really,

I don't know,

tell the story without telling the story.

Choosing to give her performance through her eyes,

through her emotions,

and not just blatantly saying,

you know?

And the stuff that she said that didn't quite make sense around the time of her speaking her dialogue or lines,

it didn't make sense yet.

you made sense of it which kind of went with the flow of the movie because the movie is asking us to kind of suspend disbelief in a lot of sense and trust the filmmakers and trust these actors to deliver because

we don't get to the crust of everything until virtually the third act of this movie late in the third act of this movie and so you have to put a lot of trust in the performances of our leads.

and they do a marvelous job along along with emily blunt you got josh o'connor who's um i'm quickly becoming a big fan of his i didn't know much about josh o'connor until i saw him in uh wake

up dead man that uh knives out movie

and that was my first time seeing him even though i know he was in other films but that was my first time actually paying attention to him enjoyed him in that it was something else i'm blanking on that i saw him in recently that i enjoyed him in he was also good in here once

again just like emily blunt we have to put a lot of trust in the actor here to explain what's going on without explaining what's going on.

It's a real tight rope that they were walking throughout this film,

you know,

without just blatantly spoon-feeding the audience.

And yet and still,

you can follow this story ever so clearly.

Emily Blunt and Josh O'Connor did marvelous here.

Colin Firth as our main antagonist in this film.

I love Colin Firth.

Colin Firth,

man,

proves yes.

yet again that he has range outside of this stratosphere he he can be he can be a hero he can be uh uh play a king he can play a prime minister he can play a government agent uh james bond ripoff he can play a

villain here he he can do it all he could be in child kids movies and make that work he is he is marvelous and in this film

I really enjoyed him.

If there's one knock I have about

Colin Firth,

we don't get much background,

backstory on Colin Firth's character,

which probably could have helped a little bit more,

you know,

to really flush out his motivations,

why he's doing what he's doing.

We get the,

I guess you could say,

meat of the meal.

You know,

yeah,

he works for the government and he wants to retrieve this information.

But.

his motivations what makes him tick and we didn't really get that in in the film but colin firth's performance was still intriguing enough to feel him being a threat to really know that he is our antagonist here carmen domingo who is this is the year of domingo man he

is in everything and you know what impresses me about carmen domingo

He's in everything,

but he's not the same character in everything.

Normally when we see a renaissance of an actor in back-to-back-to-back-to-back films or television shows,

they're the same person.

It becomes pretty easy for them because they're playing the same role,

basically.

Not Carmen Domingo.

Just this year,

just this year,

we've seen him in

Disclosure Day.

We've seen him on Euphoria.

We've seen him in Michael.

as joe jackson and that's just a tip of the iceberg because he was in many more films but he was a different character in every one and he knocked everyone out the park and this film is no exception uh carmen domingo also

did a marvelous job eve hewson who is in case you don't know uh this will help you out in trivia night she's the daughter of bono yes from you too.

big fan of hers too i seen her on a tv show uh a netflix series i believe with uh nicole kitman last year maybe the year before last and um i was like man she's really good never seen her before but she's really good she's holding her own in

that power uh that powerful cast that they had on their show but uh the cast no problems perfectly cast in this film everybody wyatt Russell is in this film as well.

Loved his role.

He probably had the funniest role or part of this movie.

And once again,

the only knock I have,

we don't get enough of him.

It's only maybe three or four scenes,

but three at max scenes with Wyatt Russell.

And every scene he was in was top notch.

You know,

he elevated every scene playing alongside of Emily Blunt there.

It's so awesome job.

the direction how can i criticize it what can i say about it it's steven spielberg people and this is his wheelhouse science fiction this is what he do and he did it well in this movie uh this

isn't your action-packed thrill ride a thrill adrenaline rush type movie if you go looking for that it's not there it's a spielberg film he's never giving you that

Even in the Raiders movies,

in the Indiana Jones films,

they're not action-packed.

Yeah,

there's action in them,

but there are moments of subtlety throughout those movies.

this movie was telling a story that didn't rely on action and uh big car chases and things of that nature now with that being said that's in it they have your car chases you have your uh moments of tension you know there's a action sequence that involves a car in a train well two trains really that

was oh my god i haven't seen i never seen anything like that on screen before it

boy was intense that was adrenaline feel my heart was pounding watching that scene um other scenes as well that uh action wise that were really really well directed uh but that's

not what that's not what this film is about uh and they were placed perfectly throughout the film you know you basically got three action sequences one in the beginning one in the middle one in the in and

they all fit the story everything else was the detention the the hunt the running the searching for answers answers and um um anticipating our two lead characters meeting up linking up to get get down to the bottom of what exactly is going on and

that just made it that much more heavier of a story uh david kept who wrote this

This isn't his first time with Spielberg.

He wrote the Jurassic Park films.

John Williams returns to do the score.

John Williams is 94 years old.

94 years old and still delivering powerhouse scores yet again.

He gave us a really good score.

When these two come together,

you want to talk about collaborations that just...

work it is spielberg and john williams they know each other backwards and forwards i mean hey they both combine age about 200 so they know each other well and they worked on the

vast majority of films together i think spielberg only did two films if i'm not mistaking without john williams one being the color purple which is understandable

And the other one,

I believe,

is West Side Story.

But I could be wrong on that.

But I do know for certain he didn't work on the color purple.

Everything else,

John Williams was orchestrating or conducting that orchestra for a Steven Spielberg film.

Where the film kind of

I have my little problems with were,

number one,

the film is.

just a take a snitch too long it's an hour i wish no it was two hours and 30 minutes it was it was long now it's not boring long it's not you checking your watch long it's

just they could have ended it i don't know 10 minutes earlier because you can watch the film while you're watching the film but i did this when you were watching the film Thank you.

And you know the precise moment where normally a movie would end.

And it would have been the perfect ending to this movie.

And it kept going.

And the ending was what the ending was.

That was my other problem with it.

I didn't like how this movie faded to black.

But,

you know,

I get it.

Now,

with all that being said,

here's why I.

absolutely love Disclosure Day.

As I opened up this review and asked the question,

do you want to know?

Is it going to change your philosophy or how you look on life and stuff like that?

This movie,

this is basically what the movie is about.

You know,

you have a former nun who is one of our main characters and she had left the church and the question was asked to her.

you know well you lost your faith you left the church and she her response was like no i left the church but i didn't lose my faith and and the question was posed to her well if you find this out to be true would that change anything you know so her

character kind of struggles with this throughout the film and until we get to the end and there's a conversation that takes place that i never looked at now Bye.

i'm a man of faith so this is where this is where it resonated with me the most i'm

the way it was explained and i'm not going to spoil it because i won't i need everybody to go see this movie and go see it in the theater it's really good uh is the fact that it is explained to the point where the two can coexist you

can still have belief in god you can still have your faith and believe the fact that there are aliens that's something that i always believed anyway that that never that never bothered me i always felt

that you know but the way it was explained here kind of confirmed my feelings and i accepted that i was like yeah that is that is perfectly explained in this film and i can't do anything but tip my hat to

steven spielberg for raising that question because it takes guts now if anybody can do get away with that is steven spielberg steven spielberg can make any type of movie he won't And Reese.

any question he wants that's steven spielberg you know me uh uh trying to get funding for a film from a studio that poses questions that uh that deal with faith or anything like that they'll they'll show me the door you know they

will show me the door but man this this was a really good film that raises so many questions but it

answers so many as well this movie doesn't really leave you ambiguous you know uh other than this ending but as far as the main story it it really goes through uh and answers those questions that you needed answered from this story it

just poses more philosophically and spiritually that quite quite honest i i completely Lee

completely respect i give disclosure day a letter grade of an a minus yeah this was steven spielberg at his finest man he was firing on all cylinders with

disclosure day so happy to see him just killing it killing it yet again i'm so in case you don't know spielberg is my favorite i mean W.

as well as many millions of others.

I'm not unique in saying that statement,

but he has always been my favorite director.

It has been so disappointing to see films like AI and,

you know,

and

Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull and the BFG and the Post and all that stuff.

And I'm like,

oh my God,

man.

When is Bill Burr,

when is he going to give us some good stuff?

You know,

some real entertaining stuff that brings me back to my childhood,

watching films like all of the other

Indiana Jones films and,

you know,

Hook and Jurassic Park,

even Schindler's List and E.T.

and all that good stuff.

When am I going to get that back?

Well,

I believe we got it back with Disclosure Day.

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How did you feel about Disclosure Day?

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Disclosure Day (2026) Movie Review

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