Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey is a festival of scale and intimacy — a crowd-pleasing blockbuster that also feels unmistakably Nolan: rigorous in structure, audacious in spectacle, and quietly human at its center. If any film is going to be remembered as the movie that owned summer 2026, this is it.

Well, I finally saw it. And it definitely was not what I, or many of us, were expecting this latest from the GOAT of filmmaking himself to be. Disclosure Day, Steven Spielberg’s new original science fiction thriller, takes some of the themes and concepts previously explored in Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) and E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982) and brings them into the 21st century for a story about the relentless pursuit of the truth, while also making an earnest plea for the necessity of empathy.