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Co-writer/director Rupert Wyatt's science fiction crime thriller unfolds in the dystopic aftermath of an alien occupation. A Chicago police officer (John Goodman) sees through the aliens' false rhetoric of peaceful coexistence and begins recruiting formidable individuals (Ashton Sanders) to form Phoenix: an armed rebel group that aims to unite humanity against its common foe.
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Captive State (2019)
110 min
Nearly a decade after occupation by an extraterrestrial force, the lives of a Chicago neighborhood on both sides of the conflict are explored. In a working-class Chicago neighborhood occupied by an alien force for nine years, increased surveillance and the restriction of civil rights have given rise to an authoritarian system -- and dissent among the populace.