‘Civil War’ review: Divided we stand, barely, with Kirsten Dunst as a war-torn photographer
by Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune
Apr 11, 2024
3 minutes
Much like America itself, writer-director Alex Garland’s “Civil War” is a precarious sort of success almost in spite of itself, and despite being its own worst storytelling enemy. How? How can those circumstances lead to a movie still worth seeing? Well, see it and find out. Or find out if you disagree. Garland’s fourth feature, after the variously fantastical and eerie “Ex Machina” (2014), “Annihilation” (2018) and “Men” (2022), sticks to a straightforward narrative path; it’s the tone and rhythm likely to carve up audiences into warring factions.
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