Steven Spielberg’s Big Return to Aliens Fails to Take Flight

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Steven Spielberg’s Big Return to Aliens Fails to Take Flight

Universal Pictures and Amblin En / Universal Pictures Steven Spielberg’s sci-fi triumphs Close Encounters of the Third Kind and E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial understood and exploited fears of the other while championing understanding and communion as the noblest responses to intergalactic phenomena. Their mixture of suspense, poignancy, and awe, however, is clumsily replicated by Disclosure Day , the director’s return to out-of-this-world material, which can’t manage to untangle its narrative’s myriad knots. Straining for both timeliness and throwback thrills, it’s an alien affair that never delivers the grand payoffs it teases. Written by his Jurassic Park and War of the Worlds scribe David Koepp from his own original idea, Disclosure Day finds Spielberg and long-time cinematographer Janusz Kamiński kicking things off with a display of aesthetic showmanship—reflections upon faces, serpentine long takes, bifurcating lens flares—which serves as a reminder that, in terms of blockbuster artistry, few can match the Oscar-winning auteur. Read more at The Daily Beast.

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