CIVIL WAR
Hate thy neighbour
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?