'Civil War' – Raw, Original and Utterly Pointless

Hollywood in Toto— Alex Garland wasn't kidding. The writer/director of 'Civil War' said his dystopian thriller didn't take political sides. The film bears that out, focusing entirely on journalists scrambling to cover a country at war with itself. The problem? 'Civil War' isn't action-packed in a traditional, rah-rah sense. Nor does it shed new light on what it means to be a war correspondent. What's left? Visceral moments and the sense that almost anything can happen on screen. Like Garland's previous film 'Men,'...

Reverse Shot—Civil War. Civil War Dir. Alex Garland, U.S./U.K., A24. The 15-year-old me would have gotten a big kick out of Civil War—but for better or for worse...

TheJournal.ie—Fewer fatalities in the Civil War than War of Independence, new research suggests. The Irish Civil War Fatalities Project, launched today, lists all of the combatant and civilian fatalities in the Irish Civil War.

Daily Kos—'Civil War' is a movie. Putin's pals want a real war between the states. The dystopian thriller “Civil War” has been the No. 1 film at the U.S. box office for the last two weekends. But viewers, liberals and conservatives alike, should be aware that Russian leader Vladimir Putin’s propagandists are hoping that a second American Civil War actually happens. After the House approved the $61 billion Ukraine aid package on Saturday, the hawkish former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, who is the deputy chairman of Russia’s security council, wrote on Telegram: “I cannot...