Our Review
- Kirsten Dunst, Cailee Spaeny, Wagner Moura, Nick Offerman
- April 9th 2024
- Alex Garland
Kirsten Dunst, Wagner Moura and Cailee Spaeny play photojournalists on the frontline of the Civil War in the U.S.
Alex Garland’s latest film Civil War imagines a dystopian near future where California and Texas have seceded from the United States of America.
It is told through the eyes of military-embedded photojournalists Lee (Kirsten Dunst), Joel (Wagner Moura), Jessie (Cailee Spaeny) and Sammy (Stephen McKinley Henderson), who travel from New York to Washington D.C. to reach the White House before the Western Forces.
Garland gives us very little context about the situation we are thrusted into. There is some information at the start but it’s covered too quickly and never brought up again. On the one hand, this ambiguity makes the film more universal and makes it easier to envision this happening in real life. But on the other, it feels hollow and lacking in substance without an explanation to ground the action.
Wherever you stand on the context situation, you will still be able to appreciate the look and sound of this film. Garland has crafted an epic anti-war...
