My next 2024 music selection comes from a movie that stirred up quite a bit of controversy before it was even released. During a contentious election season, some people thought Alex Garland’s Civil War would encourage bad actors to start a real one.

It turns out the film was less about real world tensions and more about the journalists who capture horrifying images of war — to inform the public, but also for the grim fix it provides them.

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