Writer-director Alex Garland has never been one to take it easy on the viewer. His five feature films as director, dystopian sci-fi and war dramas about humanity on the brink of collapse or technological takeover, are told with a clinical, unflinching eye behind the page and camera. When he's playing away from his frequent collaborator, Danny Boyle , a director who extracts lively, pop sensibilities from his bleak stories, Garland, when left to his own devices, taps into something deeply unsettling about violence and power dynamics . In 2025, he took his vision to a whole new level with Warfare , which is now streaming on HBO Max.

The opposite of his 2024 war-thriller, Civil War , which depicts a fictional internal conflict in a not-so-distant future, Warfare , co-di

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