Civil War, Alex Garland’s ambitious new thriller, hinges on an irresistible premise: What if the United States really did devolve into a second civil war? It’s an intriguing narrative idea ...

Alex Garland's filmography as both a writer and director is loaded with high-quality movies, which has of course yielded rankings lists and comparisons for years. Civil War and Warfare are ...

The new film “Civil War” is an ominous attempt to turn widely held American anxieties into a violent, unsettling big-screen reality. NEW YORK — Alex Garland’s films have vividly conjured a ...

One of the things I was most disappointed in about Garland’s 2024 release, Civil War, was the lack of real tension. I just never felt any real stakes in most of the movie.

Yet “Civil War” is something far more oblique than its matter-of-fact title. The film, which Garland wrote and directed, isn’t mapped directly against today’s polarization.

Alex Garland doesn't like being misinterpreted. But the writer-director's latest film, "Civil War," isn't about to spoon-feed its message to audiences, either. The film, which Garland first ...

A fantasy action movie like Elden Ring is a big swing for the studio that has been pushing into larger budgeted features. Garland’s Civil War was the studio’s biggest budgeted movie so far ...

Writer-director Alex Garland’s “Civil War” opened wide last week to controversy and boffo box office numbers. That makes the film, in and of itself, out of sync with the conventional wisdom ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Alex Garland’s films have vividly conjured a virus-caused pandemic (2002’s “28 Days Later”), an uncontrollable artificial intelligence (2014’s “Ex Machina”) and, in his latest, “Civil ...

'Civil War' might be the year's most explosive movie. Alex Garland thinks it's just reporting Jake Coyle Associated Press Apr 18, 2024 Apr 18, 2024 0 1 of 2 ...