For a filmmaker so often associated with wonder, Steven Spielberg has spent the latter part of his career circling a thornier question: What happens after the awe fades and institutions step in to manage the fallout? Disclosure Day, his nervy and unexpectedly melancholy conspiracy thriller, imagines first contact not as a triumphant leap for mankind but as an information crisis—one that governments, corporations and ordinary people are profoundly unequipped to handle.
