Nobody planned it this way. But somewhere between fighting silent extraterrestrials on a farm and outrunning alien invaders on a futuristic battlefield, Emily Blunt quietly became the one actress Hollywood turns to when the story involves life beyond Earth.
With Disclosure Day arriving June 12, Blunt is doing it again — and this time, the critics say she has never been better.
Steven Spielberg’s secretive sci-fi thriller screened for select press this week, and the early reactions were explosive. Gizmodo’s Germain Lussier called her performance “all-time.” Collider’s Steven Weintraub singled her out above everything else in the film. Critic Simon Thompson called her “wondrous.” For a movie this shrouded in mystery, the one thing everyone agreed on was Blunt.
It did not happen overnight. In 2014, Blunt starred opposite Tom Cruise in Edge of Tomorrow, a relentless sci-fi action film in which she played a battle-hardened soldier fighting an alien invasion on repeat. Critics loved her. Audiences remembered her. The film became a cult favorite.
Then came A Quiet Place in 2018, where Blunt played a mother fighting to keep her family alive in a world overrun by blind, sound-sensitive creatures. She received widespread awards attention. The sequel followed in 2021, and Blunt returned. Both films became massive box office hits.
Now comes Disclosure Day, where Blunt plays a Kansas City meteorologist who suddenly begins communicating in clicks on live television — a moment that gets broadcast to the entire world and sets off a global chain of events involving government secrets and non-human intelligence.
In a recent Empire Magazine interview, Blunt confirmed the film answers questions first posed by Spielberg’s own Close Encounters of the Third Kind from 1977. That Spielberg himself chose Blunt for this role — his long-awaited return to the genre he helped define — says everything about where she stands in Hollywood right now.
Disclosure Day opens nationwide on June 12, 2026.
