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Steven Spielberg returns to the science fiction genre with ‘Disclosure Day,’ a mysterious movie about aliens starring Emily Blunt and Josh O'Connor ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The official plot synopsis for Disclosure Day gives very little away, teasing, “If you found out we weren’t alone, if someone ...

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