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

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

mostly suffers from overwriting

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.