RELEASED OUT NOW! 12A | 109 minutes Director Alex Garland Cast Kirsten Dunst, Wagner Moura, Cailee Spaeny, Stephen McKinley Henderson
There is nothing particularly civil about the conflict that divides America in Alex Garland’s latest, a hard-hitting exercise in provocative make-believe revolving around an unsettlingly plausible diegesis. What if, at a time not too distant from our own, the despicable deeds of an authoritarian president were to prompt two of the nation’s largest states to secede?
That much has already happened by the time Civil War begins, putting the audience as much in the crosshairs as the four journalists it follows as they attempt to reach Washington before the “Western Forces” marching towards it can bring the capital to its knees.