Case in point: One early sequence in "Atropia" is built around a cameo by an extremely famous movie star who - in real life - once starred in a Very Serious film about the psychological trauma of ...

Nobody in Atropia is able to provide justification for the war, suggesting that there might not be any justification at all. Gates takes on a heavy load in exploring the role of the U.S. military in a ...

Case in point: One early sequence in “Atropia” is built around a cameo by an extremely famous movie star who — in real life — once starred in a Very Serious film about the psychological ...

The comedy “Atropia,” starring Alia Shawkat as an Iraqi-American actress cast in the role of an insurgent at a military role-playing facility, won the top prize in the Sundance Film Festival ...

Set in a fake town, Hailey Gates’ feature debut 'Atropia,' premiering at Sundance, has fun, insightful ideas, though it seldom expands on them. ‘Atropia’ Review: Alia Shawkat Shines in an ...

More a forced, one-note farce than the sharp satire it’s trying to be, “Atropia” is almost impressive in how it manages to allude to so many complicated subjects surrounding U.S. militarism ...

The war satire “Atropia” about actors in a military role-playing facility won the grand jury prize in the Sundance Film Festival’s U.S. dramatic competition, while the Dylan O’Brien movie ...

Director Hailey Gates makes her feature debut with "Atropia," a wild satire based on a very real, insane military phenomenon. 'Atropia’ is One of the Craziest True Stories You’ve Never Heard ...

Sundance 2025: “The military was not so keen on the version of the doc that I wanted to make,” director Hailey Gates says at TheWrap’s Sundance studio ...

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 ...