So she turned the idea into an unconventional love story instead, and “Atropia” was born. The film, which premiered on Saturday at the Sundance Film Festival, was originally conceived as a ...

Gates offers bits and pieces about the backstories of characters, revealing clues about why each is there and what they’re searching for in Atropia. The background characters are fleshed out to feel ...

“Atropia” never takes real shots at any of ... All that’s missing is a banner saying “MISSION ACCOMPLISHED” to unfurl in the background. Chase Hutchinson is a film and TV critic ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

Atropia has everything ... like Maria (Shaholly Ayers), prepare by connecting to the background of their characters. Most of her coworkers, like Noor (Zahra Alzubaidi), don’t care and correctly ...

All that's missing is a banner saying "MISSION ACCOMPLISHED" to unfurl in the background. The post 'Atropia' Review: Great ...