Civil War (2023)

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Synopsis

Dir: Alex Garland. Drama. At the height of a modern American civil war, two journalists (Kirsten Dunst, Wagner Moura) and a young amateur photographer (Cailee Spaeny) embark on a dangerous trip to Washington DC in an effort to interview the President (Nick Offerman).

Content elements

• Frequent use of the sexual expletive and variations in a non-sexual context; frequent use of scatological slang, profanity, vulgar expressions, and developmental slurs
• Frequent portrayals of gun, weapons, and hand-to-hand violence, some in a torture context - blood and brutal detail
• Infrequent portrayals of alcohol, tobacco, and cannabis use in a recreational context
• Infrequent portrayals of crude bodily functions - no, blood, some detail

Thematic elements

• Survival
• Teamwork
• Journalism in wartime

Classification rationale

Rated 14A for brutal violence and coarse language

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