Brexit: The Uncivil War (2019) poster
2019 · history · tv-movie · drama · political

Brexit: The Uncivil War

Directed by Toby Haynes1h 32m2019
ElsewhereIMDb7.018kRT80%
  • sombre
  • kinetic
  • cold
Movie DNA

Sombre, breathless, measured history / tv-movie, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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Political strategist Dominic Cummings leads a popular but controversial campaign to convince British voters to leave the European Union from 2015 up until the present day.

Our read · Brexit: The Uncivil War (2019) reads as a sombre, breathless, grounded history · tv-movie · drama entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.

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You want a brisk political thriller about how the Brexit campaign actually worked.

ends ambiguousit stays with yougrabs you earlygrips by minute 3attention 4/5breezes by
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around

Skip it tonightSkip if UK referendum drama still feels too raw or tediously partisan.

DNA · twelve axes

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Each axis is hand-scored — not derived from votes or genre averages. The marker shows where this film sits; the gradient fill uses the film's own cinematography palette.

Mood · HeavyCosy
Pacing · Slow-burnKinetic
Intensity · GentleExtreme
Weirdness · ConventionalSurreal
Hope · NihilisticRedemptive
Stakes · IntimateEpic
Humour · NoneBroad
Reality · GroundedFantastical
Density · SparseTwisty
Warmth · ColdTender
Auteur · TransparentSignature
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