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- 'Civil War' is a road trip movie set in a horrifying what-if scenario
- When: Civil War is in theaters and IMAX on April 12.
- What to know: The latest from writer-director Alex Garland imagines a United States at war with itself.
- The plot follows three generations of journalists — played by Kirsten Dunst, Cailee Spaeny, Wagner Moura and Stephen McKinley Henderson — on a dangerous trip from New York to Washington, D.C.
- Garland wrote the film during the 2020 election but tells Yahoo Entertainment its release during the 2024 election cycle is coincidental and due to “logistical requirements.”
- While there are some allusions to recent social unrest early in the film, the world of Civil War is wholly fictional and does not concern itself with present-day party politics.
- Promotion for the film hints at a complicated backstory with multiple distinct factions vying for power — but one of Civil War’s greatest strengths is that almost none of this is explained and it is open to viewer interpretation.
- Garland hopes Civil War will spark earnest conversation about the potential consequences of extremism, “because conversation is the thing that is really struggling to exist in public discourse.”
- — Sam Matthews, executive producer
- April 10, 2024
Civil War is a dystopian sci-fi film by Alex Garland, set in a nation in crisis. See critics and audience reviews, trailer, cast and crew, and watchlist options.
Apr 10, 2024 · A movie review of Civil War, a sci-fi thriller about four journalists covering a divided United States. The review praises the film's originality, realism, and ethical dilemmas, but also criticizes its lack of political specifics and its reliance on genre tropes.
Apr 11, 2024 · Review: ‘Civil War’ shows an America long past unraveling, which makes it necessary. Kirsten Dunst is a seasoned photojournalist in “Civil War,” a thrillingly dark road trip directed by ...
- Joshua Rothkopf
- Film Editor
- joshua.rothkopf@latimes.com
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Apr 12, 2024 · At the mystical aliens-among-us climax of Jeff Nichols’s “Midnight Special” (2016), it is Dunst, aglow with Spielbergian wonderment, who compels our surrender to the thrill of the unknown ...
Apr 11, 2024 · Civil War Rated R for war violence and mass death. Running time: 1 hour 49 minutes. ... An earlier version of this review misidentified an organization in the Civil War in the movie. It is the ...
- Alex Garland
- Manohla Dargis
- 109 min
Apr 9, 2024 · The United States is crumbling in Alex Garland’s sharp new film “ Civil War, ” a bellowing and haunting big screen experience. The country has been at war with itself for years by the time we’re invited in, through the gaze of a few journalists documenting the chaos on the front lines and chasing an impossible interview with the president.
