Beatrice Loayza questions Steven Spielberg's evolving humanism in 'Disclosure Day' review

Watching Disclosure Day, Beatrice Loayza wonders if Hollywood's great empath is losing his way

Spielberg's alien invasion film hearkens back to the big-budget spectacles of Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977), E.T. (1982) and War of the Worlds (2005), but with a notable inversion

It's been declared a quintessential 'late' film, i.e. a shamelessly personal object that both reiterates the director's past films and concerns and refines them in a new – typically blunter, bolder, and more divisive – direction