Civil War

AroView: The most expensive film made by upstart studio A24, this urgent and chillingly relevant dystopian thriller represents a solid return to form for writer-director Alex Garland.

It’s a bold, confident vision that balances action spectacle with the insidious conflicts sustained by a group of militarized journalists – led by an excellent Kirsten Dunst – en route to interview a fascist president during a modern American civil war. Its grim depiction of a de-civilized USA represents a powerful warning shot about a future chaos that, in today’s political climate, sometimes seems barely contained.

“Civil War moves in ways you’d forgotten films of this scale could – with compassion for its lead characters and a dark, prowling intellect, and yet a simultaneous total commitment to thrilling the audience at every single moment.” ~Robbie Collin, The Telegraph

“Civil War delivers a challenging, thrilling, heart-pounding movie about the importance of journalism in times of conflict, about how easily we become desensitized to violence when we’re living through it.” ~Rafael Motamayor, IGN

“Rarely have I seen a movie that made me so acutely uncomfortable or watched an actor’s face that, like Dunst’s, expressed a nation’s soul-sickness so vividly that it felt like an X-ray.” ~Manohla Dargis, The New York Times