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‘Civil War’ Review: Alex Garland Tears America Apart, Counting on Divided Audiences to Prevent His Worst-Case Horror Show
Kirsten Dunst plays a jaded photojournalist documenting the end of democracy in 'Civil War,' sure to be one of the year’s most controversial films.
Intended as a wake-up call, the long-fuse thriller — which starts slow and snowballs to a jaw-dropping raid on Washington, D.C. — embeds viewers alongside a dedicated team of journalists making their way to the capitol while the country unravels around them. Like the coffee-shop explosion in Alfonso Cuarón’s “Children of Men,” the vérité-style blast puts us on edge — though the wider world might never witness it, were it not for Lee, who picks up her camera and starts documenting the carnage. Rather than spoil the critical decisions each of them makes as the situation escalates beyond anything “Has Fallen” hero Gerard Butler could salvage, consider the implications: At this point in the film, embedded alongside the insurrectionists, they’re fueled more by a totally distorted sense of duty.
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