Fresh
A flawed but worthwhile examination of paranoia and clashing cultures in the 21st century.
Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper
Overview
An American accountant bombarded with cable news and the media's obsession with terrorist plots in the post 9-11 world, receives a jolt when an unattached Islamic graduate student moves in next door.
Director and cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
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56%
Tomatometer
Rotten
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.
Scott Tobias, AV Club
Fresh
It does build up considerable suspense and tension; Renfroe has learned well from Hitchcock.
Richard Nilsen, Arizona Republic
Fresh
The film's pace lags toward the end, but its grasp of manufactured fear's dreary pervasiveness never falters.
Mark Holcomb, Time Out New York
Rotten
The vivid sense of time and place is the best thing about the initially promising, ultimately irritating psychological thriller Civic Duty.
Matt Zoller Seitz, New York Times
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