A Movie Called 'Civil War' Shouldn’t Avoid Politics This Much
Alex Garland’s film follows a dispiriting Hollywood trend, never really exploring our nation’s prominent fault lines
At last, Texas and California agree on something. In Civil War, the lower 48’s biggest states are a two-pronged secessionist alliance marching on fascist Washington. They are the good guys. The President dissolved the FBI, air-struck his own citizens, and now delusionally promi…