Kirsten Dunst stars in the provocative thriller from “Ex Machina” director Alex Garland.
Globally, the film is already sitting at a gross of $30 million.
The film is actually being opaque.

Kirsten Dunst in ‘Civil War’.A24 / Courtesy Everett
It’s forcing the viewer to ask questions.
They don’t like being confused about the intentions of the people making the film.
They want to be reassured.

Finn Wolfhard, Celeste O’Connor, Paul Rudd, Kamail Nanjiani, Logan Kim, Carrie Coon in ‘Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire’.Columbia Pictures
But as I see it, film is a broad church.
There’s lots of different people making lots of different sorts of films.
I want to make them like this.
An action-packed weekend at the movies continued withGodzilla x Kong: The New Empiretaking second place.
Directed byAdam Wingard, the movie starsRebecca Hall,Dan Stevens, andBrian Tyree Henry.
The film now sits at $159 million worldwide in its fourth weekend in theaters.