Here are review links for this film submitted by our members:
- Allen Almachar @ The MacGuffin
- Excerpt: It operates at its highest in the moment, pulling our reactions quickly and aggressively. But when we walk away and think about it, its shortcomings reveal themselves.
- Rick Aragon @ Rick’s Texan Reviews
- Excerpt: Quieter, more meditative than I expected, Civil War works if you look at it with as open a mind as you can muster.
- David “DC” Bolling @ DC’s Take
- Excerpt: Civil War sees Writer/director Alex Garland take on a hypothetical viewpoint that might happen and turn it into a flawed but intense ride.
- [New] | Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat @ Spirituality & Practice
- Excerpt: An invitation to connect the dots between the U.S. today and a dystopian story about journalists caught in a war between rebels and an authoritarian government.
- Samuel Castro @ www.elcolombiano.com [Spanish]
- Excerpt: Seguramente los estadounidenses que hayan ido a ver “Guerra civil” de Alex Garland, se quedarán en el recuerdo con lo que para ellos parece una película profética.
- Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: Other than the mentor/protégé relationship at its core, “Civil War” may as well be a season of ‘The Walking Dead,’ its episodic structure a series of encounters with friends and foe, the difference sometimes hard to fathom…left me underwhelmed.
- Bavner Donaldo @ Cinejour [Indonesian]
- Mark Hobin @ Fast Film Reviews
- Excerpt: Actress Kirsten Dunst delivers a powerhouse performance as a hardened photojournalist grounding the events in raw, unflinching reality.
- Kat Hughes @ THN
- MaryAnn Johanson @ FlickFilosopher.com
- Excerpt: A spineless dystopian action drama that defaults to a dangerously irresponsible both-sides-ism; its pretense of “objectivity” is unfair to the journalist protagonists the film thinks it’s championing.
- Harrison Martin @ Flixfrog
- Excerpt: Civil War is a gritty, intense, graphic road trip movie that was not at all what I expected. Also, Jesse Plemons is a national treasure!
- Mike McGranaghan @ The Aisle Seat
- Excerpt: Civil War gets you on edge early, then holds you there until the last second.
- Jared Mobarak @ Hey, have you seen …?
- Excerpt: I’d compare its genre and tone to the PURGE series before I would a war movie. There’s some great suspense and a perpetual sense of looming terror.
- Christopher Reed @ Film Festival Today
- Excerpt: And though we might wish that the important themes undergirding the many impressive action pieces were more original, the emotional impact of the big scenes nonetheless keenly resonates. “Civil War” may not offer the deepest of thoughts, but it remains a twisted thrill ride through one potential version of the nightmare on today’s doorstep.
- Diego Salgado @ SoFilm [Spanish]
- Dennis Schwartz @ dennisschwartzreviews.com
- Excerpt: Questions what would happen to democracy if its safety net doesn’t work.
- Sebastian Zavala @ MeGustaElCine.com [Spanish]
- Excerpt: An intense and well-constructed experience when it comes to characters, which tells us a lot about the horrors of war, the meaninglessness of large-scale violence, and the work (valuable, but traumatic) of war photojournalists.
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