Civil War

This violent tale of anaesthetised reporters is just a war yarn with a twist.

There’s a cautionary message then in the madness: stop or perish; the choice is entirely ours.

In Alex Garland's tense film, journalists risk everything to document the US at war with itself.

It's very powerful.

Clamorously making its claim on viewers’ attention by subject matter alone, rather than by artistry or world view, the film is a kind of advertisement for itself.

Look at it as a movie for posterity, and it becomes a worthwhile movie to savor, but nothing else—and you’ll survive. Admire Civil War as an amazing film of imagination and cinematic verve but nothing else—and you will, too.

An invitation to connect the dots between the U.S. today and a dystopian story about journalists caught in a war between rebels and an authoritarian government.



Maybe labeling ‘Civil War’ a dystopian horror story is more apt.

Civil War is filled with the terrible mayhem of war brought home to the United States. Brilliantly conceived, it shoots a barrage of ideas straight towards your brain and assaults your senses with sound and furious urgency. Will you listen?

Civil War is not a film about why extreme division happens&#59; it’s about the personal impact of division at its worst.