Disclosure Day Review: Spielberg Gives Us Too Much Credit

Disclosure Day review: Spielberg pours a lifetime of obsessions into an earnest, overlong sci-fi plea to an indifferent world. A little over halfway through Steven Spielberg's Disclosure Day, Margaret Fairchild (Emily Blunt) and Daniel Kellner (Josh O’Connor) take refuge from a thrilling chase in a freight car packed with disassembled pianos. Margaret slides into a panic attack, certain the tremors moving through her hands are the first signs of the Parkinson's that took her father and has shadowed her ever since. It’s one of the more compelling scenes in the film, and for a moment I was sure that Spielberg was using it to crack the whole film open, that this was a movie functioning as an allegory about aging, memory, and losing control. It is a shame the movie never fully follows or commits to that thread. But when Disclosure Day manages to get out of its own way, it is about memory: about a plea to remember what humans are capable of when we choose to cooperate. That plea

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