These wildly different films explore the wondrous, and sometimes terrifying possibilities of contacting extra-terrestrial life.

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Spielberg's new thriller centers on a massive U.S. conspiracy to hide the fact that aliens have been visiting Earth for decades. If anything, though, the movie's pleasures feel more retro than timely.