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Civil War

film by Garland [2024]

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The film Civil War (2024) is a speculative fiction work by director Alex Garland that imagines a near-future United States embroiled in a modern civil war. The conflict arises after 19 states secede, and the film explores themes of political division and authoritarianism. It follows a veteran war photojournalist, played by Kirsten Dunst, and a soldier portrayed by Jesse Plemons. The film has been noted for its emotional impact, though some critics have questioned the origins of the conflict and the alliances depicted. Garland has stated that the film's answers are implicit, assuming an audience that can infer meaning.12

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Alex Garland
Civil War, Warfare, and 28 Years Later
…about films of recent years, Civil War (2024), which imagines a near-future in which the United States is in the throes of a modern-day internecine war after 19 states have seceded. This time Offerman plays an authoritarian three-term president, and Kirsten Dunst stars as a veteran war photojournalist. In one…
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…about films of recent years, Civil War (2024), which imagines a near-future in which the United States is in the throes of a modern-day internecine war after 19 states have seceded. This time Offerman plays an authoritarian three-term president, and Kirsten Dunst stars as a veteran war photojournalist. In one…
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Wagner Moura
Later work as actor and director
…and photographers in Alex Garland’s Civil War. During this time he also appeared in several Apple TV+ series: Shining Girls (2022), a miniseries about a serial killer, and Dope Thief (2025), about two friends who rob drug dealers. Moura was drawn into participating in the latter show by getting a…
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…and photographers in Alex Garland’s Civil War. During this time he also appeared in several Apple TV+ series: Shining Girls (2022), a miniseries about a serial killer, and Dope Thief (2025), about two friends who rob drug dealers. Moura was drawn into participating in the latter show by getting a…
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Jesse Plemons
The Irishman, The Power of the Dog, and Killers of the Flower Moon
…a cameo in the dystopian Civil War (2024), which starred Dunst as a journalist covering a war-torn United States. His other credits from 2024 include Yorgos Lanthimos’s Kinds of Kindness, a dark comedy that explores cruelty, kindness, domination, and free will. Plemons, who played three characters, received the prize for…
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…a cameo in the dystopian Civil War (2024), which starred Dunst as a journalist covering a war-torn United States. His other credits from 2024 include Yorgos Lanthimos’s Kinds of Kindness, a dark comedy that explores cruelty, kindness, domination, and free will. Plemons, who played three characters, received the prize for…
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Cailee Spaeny
Stardom: Priscilla, Civil War, and Alien: Romulus
…in the gritty action film Civil War. She played Jessie, an aspiring photojournalist who falls in with a group of experienced war correspondents—including the veteran photographer Lee, played by Dunst—on a quixotic mission to drive from New York City to Washington, D.C., through a country fragmented by internecine violence.
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…in the gritty action film Civil War. She played Jessie, an aspiring photojournalist who falls in with a group of experienced war correspondents—including the veteran photographer Lee, played by Dunst—on a quixotic mission to drive from New York City to Washington, D.C., through a country fragmented by internecine violence.
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