For two weeks in April, the top movie in America explored what would happen if Texas and California seceded from the United States. The answer, as foreshadowed in the title Civil War, was brutal internecine violence leading to probably thousands of grisly deaths.
Director Alex Garland's "powerful vision," opined Variety's Peter Debruge, "leaves us shaken, effectively repeating the question that quelled the L.A. riots: Can we all get along?" With the country's already deep political schisms fracturing further during this presidential election year, Rodney King's famous question suggests a more provocative answer: Maybe we can't all get along—and perhaps we shouldn't have to.
