With a dangerous landscape that never feels safe, even during quiet moments, and a cracking cast, Civil War is a disturbing journey through a world nobody should want to be a part of.

Full Review | Jun 12, 2024

Garland, likewise, is testing the limits of the war genre. He gives us the immediacy and awfulness of its violence, but he leaves us to navigate the narrative's implied political and moral complexities on our own.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 11, 2024

Refusing to be typecast and gracefully graduating from child actor to Supporting Oscar nominee, Dunst has landed the lead role of a lifetime as jaded war photojournalist Lee Smith in Alex Garland’s unflinching dystopian American nightmare, Civil War.

Full Review | Jun 11, 2024

Civil War’s grim vision of a riven America provides a sobering look-what-can-happen warning.

Full Review | Jun 11, 2024

Garland's films continue to feel incomplete especially when it comes to wrapping them up in a satisfying way. Still, there are some great action set pieces and Dunst is excellent as always.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jun 10, 2024

An immersive experience for the senses that generates healthy questions despite lacking answers. If the goal was leaving us with conflictive emotions then mission accomplished. (Full Review in Spanish)

Full Review | Jun 8, 2024

Immaculately staged and harrowingly immersive action masks a certain moral hollowness in this alternate-reality dystopia

Full Review | Original Score: 3 | Jun 2, 2024

As a piece of action cinema, Civil War is nearly flawless. But as a story, it falls short.

Full Review | May 29, 2024

It’s too simplistic to call Civil War a polemic or a cautionary tale – it’s a smorgasbord of food for thought, its urgent and incisive visual and thematic construction generating a bracing immediacy.

Full Review | May 28, 2024

It has a gripping start that is validated by synthesizing the dystopian future of a divided nation, but, unfortunately, its road trip remains located in a gratuitous zone that uses the characters as simple expository vehicles. [Full review in Spanish]

Full Review | Original Score: 6/10 | May 26, 2024

An ambiguous anti-war film. There’s no speechifying or talking down to the viewer — it’s up for us to decide how it all went very wrong.

Full Review | Original Score: B+ | May 25, 2024

Garland is more interested in exploiting the current landscape for a high concept than exploring its evolution or the human nature that brought us here. A story of wartime journalism could have been done anywhere or any time. He chose now and failed.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4 | May 22, 2024

While not a horror film per se, the story shows a concern in a Twilight Zone-ish way of what we may become if we keep down the path we're on. It's well-made but will certainly be divisive, but that just seems appropriate given the subject

Full Review | Original Score: 7.5/10 | May 22, 2024

Civil War is as brilliant as it is harrowing.

Full Review | May 21, 2024

Whether it’s a preview of America’s future seems beside the point — because it works so effectively as a fractured mirror of our unsettled present.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4 | May 20, 2024

Rather than the toothless mess of banal political equivocation that people suggested it would be based on little more than a trailer and some promotional material, Civil War is as incisive and biting as any political thriller released this century.

Full Review | Original Score: A | May 13, 2024

Alex Garland’s latest directorial effort depicts a United States torn apart from within. It’s a visceral and harrowing journey.

Full Review | May 10, 2024

This is not a film that pulls punches. But ultimately it’s not a film about war, it’s a film about who records the war.

Full Review | May 9, 2024

Civil War is a better film about photojournalism than it is about the implosion of American society, with Garland subtly suggesting that just about nobody knows who or what they should be firing at. Whatever the case, it is never less than gripping.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | May 9, 2024

Poaching the extreme divisiveness of American politics to examine societal collapse through the cypher of photojournalism is a bit misguided because the film isn't really about the war (or those dividing components).

Full Review | Original Score: C | May 8, 2024