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A politically charged new thriller in theaters now, Civil War is a film that's been courting some controversy since its South by Southwest premiere in March 2024.From writer-director Alex Garland ...
Writer-director Alex Garland’s “Civil War” opened wide last week to controversy and boffo box office numbers. That makes the film, in and of itself, out of sync with the conventional wisdom ...
“Civil War” is an ominous attempt to turn widely held American anxieties into a violent, unsettling big-screen reality. 'Civil War' might be the year's most explosive movie. Alex Garland ...
A civil war has engulfed the United States. An authoritarian federal government, led by a third-term president, is embattled by secessionist movements. Despite the president claiming victory is imminent, it is widely expected that Washington, D.C. will soon be reached by the "Western Forces" (WF) led by Texas and California, while forces of the southeast Florida Alliance are also fast approaching.
The film critic Roger Ebert described the movie as "a Civil War movie that Trent Lott might enjoy" and said of its Lost Cause themes, "If World War II were handled this way, there'd be hell to pay." [234] The consensus of film critics was that the movie had a "pro-Confederate slant". [232]
His second movie, Annihilation (2018), an adaptation of the 2014 novel of the same name, was a critical success. He wrote, directed and executive produced the FX miniseries Devs (2020) followed by the horror thriller Men (2022), dystopian action thriller Civil War (2024), and the war film Warfare (2025). The three films were produced by A24.
British writer-director Garland, with his valuable outsider perspective, shoots exactly as if he were making a modern war movie about a conflict elsewhere. Civil War is its own warning home: don ...
Set in the Reconstruction era following the American Civil War, the film depicts a farmer returning home from the war, with his wife beginning to suspect that the man is an impostor while also falling in love with him. Sommersby was released in the United States on February 5, 1993 by Warner Bros.