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Disclosure Day Review:
Rating: 6.8/10

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Spielberg returns, ditching autobiographical drama for his signature genre: aliens. While I haven’t seen his entire filmography—just his major hits—there’s no denying his nearly 50-year run as a top director. He’s had recent misses like The BFG and Ready Player One, but overall, he still ranks among today’s best. Now, pairing the legendary John Williams with Spielberg for his first alien film since War of the Worlds—and featuring an impressive young cast—seemed like a sure win, right? Sadly, the movie disappointed me, and I’m not as impressed as most.  Disclosure Day follows two main characters, Dr. Daniel Kellner (Josh O’ Connor) and Margaret Fairchild (Emily Blunt), who play a cybersecurity expert/whistleblower and a meteorologist. In some unique ways, they are tied to what seems to be extraterrestrial life. Daniel has stolen countless pieces of evidence of alien life and hopes to share them with the world. Margaret is an aspiring meteorologist moving up in the world, when she starts to act and speak very strangely and somehow gets wrapped up in Daniel and his adventures. On their tail, they have the head of the company that Daniel used to work for, named Noah Scanlon (Colin Firth), after them, and the chase is on to do a full disclosure on these extraterrestrials before Noah catches up with them and stops them from spreading the truth. So, positives first, because truly the things that make this movie from being an awful movie are here, and that is Spielberg’s direction, action, visuals, and cinematography. This man is almost 80 years old, and he still manages to direct incredible shots, oners, POV shots, etc, and make a movie look insanely good. I will also praise the cast here. Emily Blunt continues to prove what an incredible actress she is here, and while I’ve seen Josh O’ Connor deliver better performances, he still does a decent job. I also think that John Williams, at 94 years old, still manages to make an insanely classic score, and Spielberg’s other frequent collaborator, Janusz Kaminski, does some really great work here in the cinematography department. All those elements should make this a great movie, but man, oh man, this script and story are BAD. I put the full blame on another frequent Spielberg collaborator, David Koepp, for the reason this movie struggles. Other than his early career writing with Jurassic Park and Mission Impossible, this dude cannot write a good script. I get what both he and Spielberg are going for here with trying to dive deep into what would happen if news of aliens among us were released to the world, but I’m sorry, that’s already kind of happening right now. On top of that, this movie takes it SOO seriously and treats it like the most important thing ever (not even kidding, it prevents World War 3 in this movie), and it’s just not well done. The movie goes on for 2 hours and 30 minutes, and it left me asking what the point was. Even with some great action scenes (again, Spielberg still has it), I found myself wondering what the deeper message was here. Would people who believe in God accept aliens? Okay? That the world would cease fighting with other countries? I doubt it, but sure. It's just a very half-baked message and idea, and when it’s not that, it's every alien movie you’ve seen ever. Including alien designs that are so basic and not creative, you could ask a toddler to draw an alien, and they’d look like the ones we have in this movie. I don’t know, I’m truly conflicted on this film, because I can’t say it's bad. After all, so many elements of it are so well crafted. If this had a better script and had much more to it in terms of story and characters, I think this easily would’ve been my favorite movie this year. As it stands, I left pretty disappointed and bummed that we didn’t get more from this movie. I wouldn’t recommend you go see this, despite all the positives I had. I give this a 6.8/10

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Disclosure Day Review:
Rating: 6.8/10

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New trailer for ‘Shrek 5’

In theaters June 30, 2027

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fun, and I think kids will really dig this. It is by no means a top contender for the year of 2026, but I enjoyed myself with this movie and give it a 7.0/10.

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Masters of the Universe Review:
Rating: 7.0/10

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but also are pretty sweet. If you push aside some of the bad jokes (most of this movie's humor is not great), the basic origin plot, and the long runtime, this was quite a fun summer movie. I really enjoyed the score by Daniel Pemberton (using some 80s rock), the cast is all very

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I mean the only things I’m excited for are Jeremy Strong who looks like he’s crushing it as Mark, and Aaron Sorkin writing. But there’s no David Fincher, no Trent Reznor or Atticus Ross, and considering Sorkin's last few directing projects. Idk if this is gonna be that good.

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Watch the first teaser trailer for #TheSocialReckoning, starring Mikey Madison, Jeremy Allen White, and Jeremy Strong.

In theaters October 9.

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Put this as high as movies like 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple or Obsession, I think this was a very decent and creepy horror flick that I can see many people enjoying. I give this a 7.2/10.

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Backrooms Review:
Rating: 7.2/10

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and I think that some of the writing was just average here. Overall, I think it's insanely impressive what we got from such a young filmmaker like Kane Parsons, and I’m very excited to see where his career goes from here. It’s been such a good year for horror, and while I don’t