Bystanders to dystopia - Fredericksburg Standard

Kirsten Dunst and Cailee Spaeny star as war-time photojournalists covering a divided America in writer/ director Alex Garland’s dystopian science fiction drama, “Civil War,” now in theaters. – Submitted photo

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BY MATT WARD, on April 17, 2024

Bystanders to dystopia

It’s very easy and often reductive to have political demonization in cinema.

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