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Civil War: Alex Garland’s Dystopian Tale of a Besieged America Both Thrilling and Terrifying

Civil War: Alex Garland’s Dystopian Tale of a Besieged America Both Thrilling and Terrifying

By Chris Knight

ReviewJim SlotekApril 11, 2024Civil War, Alex Garland, Kirsten Dunst, Cailee Spaeny, Wagner Moura, Jesse Plemons, Dystopian fiction, Action, Drama, Stephen McKinley HendersonComment

Night Raiders: First-Time Director Creates a Dystopian Future as Metaphor for a Horrific Past

Night Raiders: First-Time Director Creates a Dystopian Future as Metaphor for a Horrific Past

By Thom Ernst

ReviewJim SlotekOctober 6, 2021Sci-fi as metaphor for the present, Residential Schools, Danis Goulet, Night Raiders, Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers, Brooklyn Letexier-Hart, Amanda Plummer, Dystopian fictionComment

Reminiscence: Hugh Jackman-Led Detective Yarn Sinks In Memory Hole

Reminiscence: Hugh Jackman-Led Detective Yarn Sinks In Memory Hole

By Liam Lacey

ReviewJim SlotekAugust 21, 2021Reminiscence, Lisa Joy, Hugh Jackman, Rebecca Ferguson, Thandiwe Newton, Dystopian fiction, Daniel Wu, Jonathan NolanComment

Light of My Life: Casey Affleck’s Dystopian Drama an Alternate Look at Parental Love

By Liam Lacey

ReviewAugust 9, 2019Light of My Life, Manchester by the Sea, Anna Pniowsky, Actors as director, Drama, Dystopian fiction, British ColumbiaComment

The Darkest Minds sets the bar on dystopian teenager-killing movies even lower

By Jim Slotek

ReviewJim SlotekAugust 2, 2018Young adult novels, The Darkest Minds, Divergent, The Hunger Games, Maze Runner, Super powers, Dystopian stories, Dystopian fiction, Bradley Whitford, Jennifer Yuh Nelson

The First Purge: Franchise prequel explains it all away as a dubious Trump-era race war

By Jim Slotek

ReviewJim SlotekJuly 4, 2018The Purge, Trump, Dystopian fiction, Race issues, Crime, Marisa Tomei, Attack The Block, Attack the Block