When it comes to Steven Spielberg, you know you’re generally getting one of two things: a crowd-pleasing blockbuster or some worthy Oscar-bait. Disclosure Day, a return to the alien-centric plots of such classics as E.T. and Close Encounters of the Third Kind, is firmly in the former camp, and seeing as I was in the mood for some of that, I picked up a couple of tickets to the Dublin IFI’s 70mm screening and dragged a friend along for a viewing. After all, Spielberg had already delivered two alien classics. I might have been well off to remember that both of those were delivered at the other end of his career, and his last really good crowd-pleasing blockbuster was 2002’s Minority Report (not a classic, but a very solid blockbuster).

My thoughts below, with more than a few spoilers.