In a fast-paced sci-fi fantasy, infused with epic intentions and starring Emily Blunt, Josh O’Connor and Colman Domingo, the filmmaker brings the rest of us home.

In “Disclosure Day,” out Friday, Steven Spielberg is once again inviting audiences to ponder the existence of extraterrestrial life — and the implications it would have for religion on Earth.

When the Earth’s population receives an alien radio signal that includes instructions for building a mysterious machine, people must decide together what to do with it.