Disclosure Day: The truth is out there

Disclosure Day (2026) • View trailer4.5 stars (out of five); rated R, for action violence, gruesome images and some profanityAvailable via: Movie theatersBy Derrick Bang • Published in The Davis Enterprise, 6.14.26 This is 1977’s Close Encounters of the Third Kind writ very large. Director Steven Spielberg’s original story — fleshed out by skilled genre screenwriter David Koepp — hits the ground running, and trusts viewers to catch up. Despite being surrounded by shadowy agents with orders to apprehend them, eachone unexpectedly steps aside as Margaret (Emily Blunt) and Daniel (Josh O'Connor)slowly walk toward potential freedom.The film opens suspensefully on a late-night hostage swap. Dr. Daniel Kellner (Josh O’Connor) apparently stole something quite valuable from Noah Scanlon (Colin Firth), head of WARDEX — “Waived Reporting, Development and Extraction” — a shadowy Department of Defense contractor that apparently answers to nobody. This is made clear by the fact that Casper Boyd…