The first of three Spielberg films to become the highest grossing of all time, this propulsive adaptation of Peter Benchley’s tawdry novel is, clunky mechanical shark aside, a perfectly realised exercise in high tension. The nuanced characters are at least as important as the liberally scattered viscera.

With the release of ‘Disclosure Day,’ the director returns to the extraterrestrial theme he has explored throughout his career, from ‘Close Encounters of the Third Kind’ to ‘E.T.’ to ‘War of the Worlds.

Steven Spielberg's "Disclosure Day" returns Hollywood's preeminent big-screen craftsman to one of his most abiding questions: Are we alone.