Much like America itself, writer-director Alex Garland’s “Civil War” is a precarious sort of success almost in spite of itself, and despite being its own worst storytelling enemy. How? How can those circumstances lead to a movie still worth seeing? Well, see it and find out. Or find out if you disagree. Garland’s fourth feature, after the variously fantastical and eerie “Ex Machina” (2014), .
Virginia State Rep. Tara Durant has always told a straightforward narrative about why she ran for office. She says in June of 2020, she and her daughter were accosted by an “angry mob” of Black Lives Matter activists, who surrounded their vehicle and “assaulted their car.”