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Future shock

CIVIL WAR

During the pandemic, particularly in the early days as the death toll overseas rose, I often found myself obsessively rewatching Steven Soderbergh’s astonishingly prescient 2011 medical disaster thriller Contagion.

the latest movie from Britishinvites a similar feeling of excited fear and apprehension. Set in a future that could as easily be next week as next year, his tale about an Un-united States of America at war with itself is thrilling, frightening and worryingly prophetic.

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