“What if someone proved we weren’t alone?” That question drives Steven Spielberg’s latest science-fiction thriller, ‘Disclosure Day’, a film that feels like a return to the filmmaker’s classic chase-and-conspiracy adventures while still attempting to tackle larger questions about faith,

Disclosure Day also involves aliens but uses them conspiratorially, at the edges of the tale.

Make no mistake though. In addition to a universal group hug, “Disclosure Day” serves up a tense paranoid action thriller akin to “Enemy of the State” and “Three Days of the Condor,” only constructed ...