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Civil War feels frightenedly plausible
Writer-director Alex Garland (Ex Machina, Annihilation, Men) helms this war movie set in a dystopian near-future America where Texas, California, and other states—in the face of an increasingly autocratic and fascist U.S. President (Nick Offerman) who appoints himself to a third term—join forces to depose him. The story follows four journalists—Lee (Kirsten Dunst), Joel (Wagner Moura), Jessie (Cailee Spaeny), and Sammy (Stephen McKinley Henderson)—as they travel a circuitous route from New York to Charlottesville and beyond as the so-called Western Forces advance on Washington, D.C...
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