A great many people appear to have come out of “Civil War,” Alex Garland’s a-house-divided-against-itself-can-kick-highly-equipped-military-ass dystopian combat thriller, feeling all shook up. They’re disturbed by it, unsettled by it. They experience the movie as if it were holding a violent mirror up to the simmering rage of America’s current political/spiritual/ ideological divide. Many critics have been seriously spooked by it, and so have columnists like the New York Times’ Michelle Goldberg. The filmmaker and Facebook pundit Paul Schrader said he was scared by it. And to judge from how many tickets the film is selling, in a $25 million opening weekend that bodes well for the future of adult dramas with topical resonance (on that score let’s all be grateful), I would guess that a solid portion of the audience was scared too.
But I was not scared by “Civil War,” even a little bit. Actually,...
But I was not scared by “Civil War,” even a little bit. Actually,...
- 4/14/2024
- by Owen Gleiberman
- Variety Film + TV
At a posh party held at a downtown Manhattan brownstone on Wednesday night, notable journalists like Carl Bernstein and the New York Times’ op-ed columnist Michelle Goldberg converged to toast Michael Wolff’s upcoming book, “The Fall: The End of Fox News and the Murdoch Dynasty.” The timing couldn’t have been more apt given that the author foretold what would happen hours later with Rupert Murdoch’s surprise announcement that he was stepping down from the head of Fox Corp. and News Corp.
“It is unsustainable,” Wolff said of the Murdoch era that relied on the Donald Trump ratings juggernaut. “When liberals such as ourselves think about Fox News, we shudder. I kind of come from a different school. I’m ultimately not that interested in politics. I’m a writer, and I’m interested in stories, and, Jesus, this is a hell of a story. The old guy walking into walls,...
“It is unsustainable,” Wolff said of the Murdoch era that relied on the Donald Trump ratings juggernaut. “When liberals such as ourselves think about Fox News, we shudder. I kind of come from a different school. I’m ultimately not that interested in politics. I’m a writer, and I’m interested in stories, and, Jesus, this is a hell of a story. The old guy walking into walls,...
- 9/21/2023
- by Tatiana Siegel
- Variety Film + TV
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