In writer-director Hailey Gates’ directorial debut, she dives into the Bush-era culture of toxic masculinity, nationalism and Islamaphobia with an amusing and profoundly absurdist sense of satire. Set ...

Rose Byrne, Alia Shawkat and Rachel Sennott lead the stars attending day three of the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah. On Saturday, high-profile celebrities flocked events held by ...

Alia Shawkat stars as Fayruz ... During a quick but effectively hilarious cameo by Channing Tatum as a visiting movie star preparing for a role, he and Fayruz ham it up, upstaging each other ...

Reality blurs with performance and even love is just another scripted role in the big Sundance winner of 2025, 'Atropia.' ...

It isn’t the greatest satire ever made, but Gates’ feature is like a one-stop shop for mockery and education with some fun in between.

The most fascinating elements of Atropia expose another layer of the military-entertainment complex, the mutually beneficial relationship between the film industry and the U.S. Department of Defense.

Brought in for his lived knowledge of what the troops will face over there, Fayruz looks at Abu and immediately senses him as a threat to her theatric domination—it’s a real “Sam & Diane” hate-to-love ...

Like Gates’ short, “Atropia” opens with a near-identical scene of an Iraqi woman played by Alia Shawkat ... immersive movie set; Gates’ film treats it as such. It has logistics ...

(Greg Cotten/Sundance Film Festival via AP) This image released by the Sundance Institute shows Alia Shawkat in a scene from “Atropia.” (Sundance Institute via AP) This image released by the Sundance ...

Enter: Fayruz (Alia Shawkat), an Iraq-ish striver who came ... Of course, Atropia is meant to be even more immersive than a film set (the props department is proud of their pungency, which ...

Hailey Gates turned her Miu Miu "Women's Tales" short film into a Sundance feature, starring Alia Shawkat and Callum Turner.