Overview
- Disclosure Day opened in French cinemas on Wednesday, June 10, 2026, and has prompted wide press coverage that describes the film as both emotionally powerful and uneven.
- The plot centers on Daniel Kellner, a cybersecurity expert, and Margaret Fairchild, a journalist, who join forces to reveal that a clandestine agency called Wardex has concealed evidence of alien visits while they are pursued by authorities.
- Steven Spielberg conceived the idea and co-wrote the screenplay with David Koepp; the film runs 2 hours 25 minutes and stars Josh O'Connor, Emily Blunt, Colman Domingo and Colin Firth.
- Reviews praise Spielberg’s set pieces, the central performances—especially Emily Blunt and Josh O’Connor—and the film’s humanist tone, while critics fault its limited reinvention of Spielberg’s themes and an occasionally confusing narrative and uneven visual effects.
- Critics note the film continues Spielberg’s long interest in extraterrestrials and disclosure debates, and Spielberg says he made the picture to ‘test our fears,’ a theme that may renew public conversation about secrecy, belief and transparency.