Atropia (2025) is a different kind of military movie using comedy and irony to highlight the evils of war and the ...

Set in a fake town, Hailey Gates’ feature debut 'Atropia,' premiering at Sundance, has fun, insightful ideas, though it ...

"Atropia," starring Alia Shawkat, premiered at Sundance 2025. The dark satire of military simulation camps made for comedic ...

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 ...

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 ...

He challenged her to write the script for “Atropia” in only four weeks. “It was my most romantic writing experience because I was writing directly toward him,” she recalled. Gates and ...

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 ...

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

PARK CITY, Utah — (AP) — The war satire "Atropia," about actors in a military ... expose what’s happening in his school during the invasion of Ukraine. “Our programming team is so thrilled ...

Like Gates’ short, “Atropia” opens with a near-identical ... in excusing anyone for participating in an imperialist invasion, but it does harbor a sense of curiosity about what may have ...