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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
  2. A thought experiment about journalistic ethics in a future US divided by militias and fascism. The film follows four reporters covering the conflict and facing ethical dilemmas, violence and danger.

  3. From filmmaker Alex Garland comes a journey across a dystopian future America, following a team of military-embedded journalists as they race against time to reach DC before rebel factions descend ...

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    • Alex Garland
    • R
    • Kirsten Dunst
  4. 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
  5. 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
  6. 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 ...

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  8. Apr 12, 2024 · Full Review | May 9, 2024. James Mottram South China Morning Post. Civil War is a better film about photojournalism than it is about the implosion of American society, with Garland subtly ...

  9. Apr 12, 2024 · Civil War is its own warning home: don’t do this. And yet it falls frustratingly short, having collapsed into the same thematic issues as Garland’s previous work, 2022’s Men .

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