New Delhi, June 14 -- When his compatriots were making paranoid thrillers in the 1970s, Spielberg was busy perfecting a different kind of film, one so successful it hastened the end of the New American Cinema. Years later, he made an excellent film about whistleblowers and journalists, set in 1971, called The Post (2017). His new film-set in the present day-is also a kind of paranoid thriller, yet it lacks the dread and the shadowy possibilities of the best ones. This is a genre that's most effective when allusive, and Disclosure Day is both vague and too literal.

The opening is certainly in the key of '70s Hollywood. Almost immediately, there's a global war, a vast undefined conspiracy, and cybersecurity specialist Daniel (Josh O'Connor...