While labeled as a satire, the captivatingly original “Atropia” is an all-too-real portrayal of the United States during the ...

Like many of the independent films that premiered at this muted edition of Sundance, “Atropia” has not yet sold to a distributor. By Kyle Buchanan The comedy “Atropia,” starring Alia ...

Hailey Gates’ ambitious debut feature Atropia is full of comic potential that is never quite realised. The mixture of war games satire, deadpan farce and sweet romance provides amusement along ...

More a forced, one-note farce than the sharp satire it’s trying to be, “Atropia” is almost impressive ... sends its young people to die without actual strategy, it lacks any real bite ...

'Twinless' and 'André Is an Idiot' were honored with the Audience Awards. By Ryan Gajewski Senior Entertainment Reporter Additionally, Zodiac Killer Project landed the NEXT innovator award, with ...

Sundance: Directed by "Challengers" actress Hailey Gates, "Atropia" gives the War on Terror its own take on "The Truman Show." Case in point: One early sequence in ...

And it’s gonna happen. The frantic desire to be bleeped certainly captures the manic energy of his new, cockeyed rom-com, “Atropia,” directed by Hailey Gates and co-starring Alia Shawkat.

Like Gates’ short, “Atropia” opens with a near-identical ... actors seem happy enough to have been hired. Like actors on actual sets, every extra here has their own struggle.

There’s an inherent farce to the U.S. government, or so Hailey Gates suggests in her debut feature film, Atropia. Based on her 2019 short film Shako Mako, Gates expands her exploration of fake ...

By Lovia Gyarkye Arts & Culture Critic In Atropia, Gates, who also wrote the screenplay, includes a hampering romantic thread between our aspiring actress and a soldier cast as an Atropian ...

The snow from this year’s Sundance Film Festival has mostly melted off of Hollywood’s Dior boots, and as the Utah event draws to a close the time has come to crown a new class of indie ...