The Press as Journalists

Civil War:

Theaters: 12 April 2024

Streaming: 24 May 2024

Runtime:  109 minutes

Genre:  Action – Drama – Suspense – Thriller – War

Els:  6.0/10

IMDB:  7.5/10

Rotten Tomatoes Critics:  81/100

Rotten Tomatoes Audience:  71/100

Metacritic Metascore:  75/100

Metacritic User Score:  6.3/10

Directed: Alex Garland

Screenplay: Alex Garland

Music:  Ben Salisbury and Geoff Barrow

Cast: Kristin Dunst, Wagner Moura, Cailee Spaeny

Film Locations:  Georgia, Philadelphia, England

Budget:  $50 Million

Worldwide Box Office:  $112.8 Million

During the end game of a future U.S. civil war, four Reuters’ journalists embark on a road odyssey from New York City to Washington D.C., through war-torn countryside and active battles, all in an attempt to interview the President of the U.S.

Civil War is not the movie you were expecting to see. This is a movie about the four journalists’ reaction to the war. It’s a movie about their fears, cowardice, and courage. In the end it is all about them. It is not a movie about what, why, and how the war came about; the war is just background except at the very end were the audience learns that the President is a gutless swine.

Source: IMDb. Rotten Tomatoes. Metacritic. Graphic: Civil War movie poster, A24, DNA Films.