An aspiring actress in an army role-playing facility falls in love with a soldier in Hailey Gates' feature debut, which also ...

Look and see: a number of films this in year’s selection—including Atropia, The Stringer, and others—grappled with the ethics ...

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 ...

plotting her escape from a simulated war zone at an army base camp by secretly recording audition tapes for casting agents. In Atropia, Gates, who also wrote the screenplay, includes a hampering ...

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The residents of ‘Atropia’ are all actors, paid to make that illusion as authentic as possible. None of them take it more ...

The Army talks a big game about Atropia being as realistic as possible (it even comes with its own competing TV networks, Box News and a fake Al-Jazeera), but “The Truman Show” it ain’t.

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 and its ...

Like Gates’ short, “Atropia” opens with a near-identical scene of an Iraqi woman played by Alia Shawkat, witnessing U.S. troops rolling through her hometown in pursuit of a suspect right as ...

War remains one of this nation’s most profitable exports, and in Atropia, which premiered at Sundance ... plotting her escape from a simulated war zone at an army base camp by secretly recording ...

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 ...