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Review

Warfare review – war, what is it good for?

by Hannah Strong

Alex Gar­land teams up with Iraq War vet­er­an Ray Men­doza for an evoca­tive but emp­ty war film, recre­at­ing a cat­a­stroph­ic day in Rama­di based on the mem­o­ries of Men­doza and his comrades.

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In Retrospect
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Review

Civil War review – sound without the fury

by Hannah Strong

Alex Gar­land’s vision of a future Amer­i­ca rav­aged by con­flict is impres­sive­ly mount­ed but lacks polit­i­cal bite.

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Review

Men

by Hannah Strong

A woman reel­ing from a per­son­al tragedy embarks on the hol­i­day from hell in Alex Garland’s very British folk hor­ror film.

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In Retrospect
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Festivals

Mark Jenkin and Mia Hansen-Løve will unveil new films at the 54th Directors’ Fortnight

by David Jenkins

They’ll be joined by fel­low lumi­nar­ies Alex Gar­land and Pietro Mar­cel­lo when the Quin­zaine returns to Cannes next month.
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Incoming

Alex Garland pivots into outright horror with the first trailer for Men

by Charles Bramesco

In the upcom­ing film, Jessie Buck­ley brings her grief to a solo hol­i­day in the Eng­lish countryside.
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Incoming

Jessie Buckley is set to star in Alex Garland’s next film, Men

by Charles Bramesco

She’ll play a young woman mourn­ing the death of her ex-hus­band while on hol­i­day in the Eng­lish countryside.
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In Praise Of

Sunshine and the existential dilemma of space travel

by Emily Maskell

With NASA to allow tourists to vis­it the Inter­na­tion­al Space Sta­tion from 2020, what lessons can be learned from this 2007 sci-fi thriller?
A person in a white and blue spacesuit with a helmet, standing in a dark, enclosed space.

Why we need smarter sci-fi movies now more than ever

by Nathan Fidler

Film­mak­ers like Christo­pher Nolan and Alex Gar­land are stok­ing our curios­i­ty and crit­i­cal think­ing, but they’re in the minority.
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Is Annihilation the first true film of the Anthropocene era?

by Lewis Gordon

Alex Garland’s chill­ing body hor­ror speaks direct­ly to our cur­rent age of eco­log­i­cal crisis.
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Review

Annihilation

by Adam Woodward

Alex Gar­land deliv­ers a visu­al­ly stun­ning, cool­ly affect­ing alle­go­ry for life, loss and human fallibility.

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