Going almost back to the beginning of his career, Steven Spielberg has been a master at making great alien movies. Early in his career, he made two masterpieces, Close Encounters of the Third Kind and E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial. Then there was a lull until he returned with War of the Worlds in 2005. He even slipped some aliens into one of his biggest franchises with 2008’s Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.
Now Spielberg’s back with another one on the 2026 movie schedule, Disclosure Day. I thought this would be a great time to look back at Spielberg’s previous movies and think about how the latest one might stack up.
