Run time: 145 mins

It’s close encounters of the deferred kind in Stephen Spielberg’s wondrous conspiracy spectacular.

Alien life has long been confirmed and concealed from the public. Disclosure Day opens in the middle of the fight to declassify that information. Whistleblower Daniel (Josh O’Connor), a cybersecurity expert at the Wardex corporation, is on the run with a bit of alien technology, while his girlfriend Jane (Eve Hewson) is in Wardex’s custody (headed up by a villainous Colin Firth). Daniel and fellow whistleblower, Hugo (Colman Domingo), stand firm against the idea that corporations should have control over information any more than they should air or light.

And then there’s meteorologist Margaret Fairchild (Emily Blunt, completely stealing the film), suddenly gifted with telepathic abilities (channelling a mysterious alien language). She must face reality in a more intimate way, tearing open the closed-off parts of her childhood years.

The plot is something straight out of an episode of the X-Files, but Spielberg sprinkles in enough of his movie magic and sense of awe to make it feel like a huge event. See it big, see it loud. See it here.