First reviews from SXSW dropping.
RT: 88% https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/civil_war_2024
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RT: 88% https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/civil_war_2024
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‘Civil War’ Review: Alex Garland’s Dystopian Thriller Starring Kirsten Dunst Stimulates the Intellect, if Not the Emotions
The actress stars alongside Cailee Spaeny in the 'Ex Machina' and 'Annihilation' director's latest feature about a group of journalists chronicling a violent conflict in the United States.
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‘Civil War’ Review: Alex Garland Tears America Apart, Counting on Divided Audiences to Prevent His Worst-Case Horror Show
Kirsten Dunst plays a jaded photojournalist documenting the end of democracy in Alex Garland's 'Civil War.'
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'Civil War' Imagines America's Worst-Case Scenario Right Around the Corner
The 'Ex Machina' filmmaker presents a divided states of America at war with itself as blood runs in the streets. No, it's not a documentary — yet.
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Civil War ditches present politics in favor of gripping action and emotion
Review: Annihilation director Alex Garland pins Civil War on stars Kirsten Dunst and Cailee Spaeny, rather than on American infighting. In theaters April 12.
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SXSW Film Review: Civil War
Alex Garland enters the battlefield of combat zone journalism
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It is a film about journalistic ethics and, in its own way, the interpretation of images is grounded in [Dunst's] outstanding performance. It isn't an easy role to inhabit, but she does so perfectly.
A literal shock to the system, Civil War is designed to be divisive.
The premise is a perfect opportunity to take a cold, hard, genre-inflected look at the American experiment's current slouching toward self-destruction — the only question is whether Garland's wild potboiler wants to explore or exploit our state of the nation, and the jury's still out on that
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