Alex Garland’s latest directorial outing, A24’s CIVIL WAR, departs from the existing canon of American Civil War films by turning the camera onto a fictional Second American Civil War set in the near future. Both a war film and a road movie, CIVIL WAR sees Reuters photographer Lee (Kirsten Dunst) and reporter Joel (Wagner Moura) take to the road with the aim of reaching Washington, D.C., before it falls to a rebel faction.