Disclosure Day review – close encounters of a deferred kind

Old-school storytelling is the point of departure in this enjoyable, deliberately ridiculous space-alien conspiracy adventure from screenwriter David Koepp and director Steven Spielberg. The film mixes Hitchcockian thrills from North by Northwest, Christopher Nolan’s Inception-style mechanics and familiar Spielbergian touches.

Spielberg even appears in the trailer, insisting he believes in the film’s contents, while the movie treats two of the world’s best-known hoaxes — Roswell and crop circles — with deadpan respect and asks us to imagine public outrage over reported vivisection of captured aliens, a reaction the review suggests might not top everyone’s list of concerns.

Emily Blunt plays Margaret Fairchild, a Kansas City TV weather presenter whose life is upended when a little red bird flutters into her apartment and seems to trigger strange, quasi-Jedi mental abilities.

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