Steven Spielberg’s newest movie “Disclosure Day” begins with a thunderous kick to the face.

The director narrates a scene from his movie that is a continuation, of sorts, of a sequence he filmed for his feature-length debut, “Duel,” in 1971.

The film starts in medias res, as Dr. Daniel Kellner (Josh O'Connor) is being pursued by Noah Scanlon (Colin Firth) and a team of henchmen for stealing intellectual property from Wardex, a government ...