Civil War

“Rarely have I seen a movie that made me so acutely uncomfortable or watched an actor’s face that, like Dunst’s, expressed a nation’s soul-sickness so vividly that it felt like an X-ray.”~Manohla Dargis, The New York Times

Aroview: The most expensive film made by upstart studio A24, this urgent and chillingly relevant dystopian thriller represents a solid return to form for writer-director Alex Garland.

It's a bold, confident vision that balances action spectacle with the insidious conflicts sustained by a group of militarized journalists – led by an excellent Kirsten Dunst – en route to interview a fascist president during a modern American civil war. Its grim depiction of a de-civilized USA represents a powerful warning shot about a future chaos that, in today's political climate, sometimes seems barely contained.