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First Contact: How Disclosure Day Rewrites the Spielberg Alien Legacy
Forty-four years and a day after E.T. opened, Steven Spielberg returns to first contact — this time with whistleblowers, congressional hearings, and the question of what they hid. A retrospective on the practical-effects wonder of Close Encounters and E.T., and what changes when the same director points the camera at suspicion instead of awe.