Civil War

MOVIE #1,858 • 🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿 • 07.29.24 This one is not fresh in my mind. I recorded a podcast on the way home from the theater (below) so I’ll leave it (mostly) at that. I get all the criticisms for this — mostly centered on the ambiguous and/or nonsensical politics — but I also think that was intentional. Perhaps that still doesn’t absolve the film of those ‘crimes’, but I don’t think Garland was trying to be overly clever. Politics are bad and stupid, and on some level this is a perfect reflection of that. It’s not a perfect movie by a longshot but I enjoyed it (the Suicide songs and the ending action set-piece make it worth watching alone).

Check out my ranking of Garland's filmography here.

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Civil War is a 2024 dystopian thriller film written and directed by Alex Garland, starring Kirsten Dunst, Wagner Moura, Cailee Spaeny, Stephen McKinley Henderson, Sonoya Mizuno, and Nick Offerman. The plot follows a team of war journalists traveling from New York City to Washington, D.C. during a civil war fought across the United States between a despotic federal government and secessionist movements, to interview the President before rebels take the capital city. It was released on March 14, 2024.