And I am not playfully throwing around the word “human” to show how the film is humanising the “aliens”, nor is it empty praise aimed at Steven Spielberg. There are two factions at loggerheads in the film: the whistleblowers who want to tell the world that they are not

Steven Spielberg knows there’s a faction of netizens that think Disclosure Day, his new aliens-are-among-us-thriller, was made to prepare the world for real-life UFO sightings.

As the race goes on, the movie veers between comedy and suspense, action and contemplation, the sounds of squealing tires mixing with sober interludes that touch on belief, reason, trauma, self-govern...