Vinson Cunningham

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The New Yorker Radio Hour · From Critics at Large: Steve Spielberg's Blockbusters · 23 Jun 2026 podcast

What does the term conjure in your minds?

Fast pace.

Maybe an explosion here or there.

There's the blockbuster for you.

It's been decades, though, since Spielberg had a big, new, summer, jazzy hit.

And that's put a big question mark around his new release, Disclosure Day.

The question is, can it excite audiences in the way his earlier films did?

Now, we have a partial answer to this.

It's already been named his first summer blockbuster since Minority Report 24 years ago, if you can believe it.

But still, the question persists.

What is the blockbuster today?

Big questions, big movies.

So buckle up, because today we're talking blockbusters.

The huge Spielberg hits that invented and then perfected this form.

How Spielberg picks up on those in Disclosure Day.

And, you know, we're hot off the huge success of films like Back Rooms and Obsession, a very different kind of movie that younger audiences especially are responding to.

I'm wondering whether this old idea of the blockbuster still exists today, still matters, at least in the Spielberg mold.

That's today on Critics at Large.

Steven Spielberg's blockbusters.

For me, it's definitely like the sort of great like miracle year or one of the great miracle years of his career where in 93, both Jurassic Park and Schindler's List come out.

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