
Civil War Review: Alex Garland’s Road Trip Through a Broken America
Alex Garland's Civil War follows journalists through a fractured America. Our review weighs the camera-as-weapon idea against a slow middle and a blank president.

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Alex Garland's Civil War follows journalists through a fractured America. Our review weighs the camera-as-weapon idea against a slow middle and a blank president.

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