Alex Garland Calls This "Disturbing" and "Incredibly Visceral" WWII Movie an All-Time Favorite

As a writer and director, Alex Garland's films do not reflect the best of humanity or convey any optimism about the future. This cynical line of thinking has made him one of the notable, albeit divisive, filmmakers of the last decade—a genre storyteller with his finger on the pulse of America (despite hailing from Great Britain) and the country's rapidly distrustful and bleak outlook on the world. In movies like Ex Machina, Civil War, and Warfare, Garland combines his innate chops as a genre filmmaker with his sobering ruminations on technology and violence as the fundamentals of human existence crumble.