If anything, the buzzing vests the soldiers have to wear over their combat uniforms make the whole experience feel like a game of laser tag on a Hollywood budget. Of course, Atropia is meant to be ...

This is the official image from “Atropia,” courtesy of the Sundance Institute. “Atropia” is almost too real to be called a satire. The film centers on Atropia, a fake city built outside of Los Angeles ...

Based on her 2020 short “Shako Mako,” Hailey Gates writes and directs “Atropia,” a unique war satire about western views of the Middle East. While both its lampooning of U.S. militarism ...

War remains one of this nation’s most profitable exports, and in Atropia, which premiered at Sundance, Gates attempts to satirize the goings-on at this role-playing facility through the eyes of ...