The questions Civic Duty raises are better than the movie itself.

| Apr 10, 2020

Civic Duty pulls us into the post-9/11 hysteria that felt ready to pop in America.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 7, 2019

mostly suffers from overwriting

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 16, 2007

If we can ignore the plot's too-often dips into clich, we just might walk away with a lot on our minds.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 8, 2007

Eventually it all boils down to clich, with home invasions by Terry, physical confrontations between Terry and Gabe, a hostage situation, a main character getting gunned down, and all the other standard thriller tropes that might excite the kind of audie

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Jun 22, 2007

Terrorism can make you crazy. Or more accurately, U.S. media hype about terrorism can drive you to believe.

| May 30, 2007

A flawed but worthwhile examination of paranoia and clashing cultures in the 21st century.

Full Review | May 21, 2007

Andrew Joiner's clever and layered screenplay just may be one of the best of the year, particularly as it requires thought and may even spark debate.

| Original Score: A- | May 7, 2007

Krause and his character are the entire movie. Watching him fall apart is fascinating and the ending has a particularly nice, if expected, twist.

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 7, 2007

"Rear Window" updated to post 9-11 corporate downsizing has too many mixed messages to convey the simple fear of a classic thriller.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/10 | May 6, 2007

There's the faint air of a solid cable movie about Civic Duty...but the questions it raises are provocative enough to make it worth seeing.

| Original Score: B- | May 5, 2007

Until it becomes simply a hostage dilemma, the film maintains an uneasy air of mystery and suspicion.

Full Review | May 5, 2007

An intense and startling movie for our times. It hits you right between the eyes.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | May 5, 2007

A claustrophobic setting and the paranoid concerns of a modern world make Jeff Renfroe's "Civic Duty" an effective psychological thriller.

| May 5, 2007

It does build up considerable suspense and tension; Renfroe has learned well from Hitchcock.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | May 5, 2007

The film's pace lags toward the end, but its grasp of manufactured fear's dreary pervasiveness never falters.

| Original Score: 4/6 | May 5, 2007

All that flash serves to prop up what's in essence a one-act play, constructed around a political message that's telegraphed from the start.

Full Review | Original Score: C | May 5, 2007

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | May 5, 2007

The vivid sense of time and place is the best thing about the initially promising, ultimately irritating psychological thriller Civic Duty.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5 | May 4, 2007

As thoughtful as it means to be -- its agenda is outlined by on-the-nose dialogue from its characters -- Civic Duty does little to go beyond this premise.

| May 4, 2007