With 'Disclosure Day,' the director returns to a longtime preoccupation. Two Times staffers explore his ongoing fascination with extraterrestrials.

Steven Spielberg’s fourth film about alien encounters is “Disclosure Day,” following “ET: The Extra-Terrestrial,” “War of the Worlds,” and “Close Encounters of the Third Kind.” That inspired us to take another look at what Roger Ebert thought about some of the most famous and infamous alien movies,

The pleasures of Netflix’s sci-fi action movie War Machine are simple, straightforward, and gut-level. It’s a movie about tough people enduring rough stuff against long odds, building camaraderie and respect for each other against a background of ...