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Atropia
Directed by
Hailey Gates
2025
1h 44m
Drama
,
War
,
and more
6.1
41%
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Follows an aspiring actress working on a U.S. military base that simulates an Iraqi war zone.
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Cast of Atropia
Alia Shawkat
Fayruz
Callum Turner
Abu Dice
Zahra Alzubaidi
Noor
Tony Shawkat
Abu Saif
Jane Levy
Nancy
Tim Heidecker
Hayden
Lola Kirke
Candy
Gilberto Ortiz
Private iPod
Dash Melrose
Private Freeburn
Allius Barnes
Private Plant
Blessing Oluwole
Private Duque
Sal Lopez
Jerry Jiminez
Priscilla Garita
Gloria
Shaholly Ayers
Maria
Mousa Kraish
Ray
Jamie McShane
Segall
June Carryl
Coco (aka Conrad)
Richard Blackmon
Rudy
Phil Burgers
Lackey
Chloë Sevigny
Pina
Toby Nichols
Private Pardo
Gil Perez-Abraham
Private Wyatt
Tim Blake Nelson
Mr. Speaker (voice)
Channing Tatum
The Actor
Chloe East
Medic Grimes
Hailey Gates
Director / Writer
Luca Guadagnino
Producer
Naima Abed
Producer
Emilie Georges
Producer
Lana Kim
Producer
Jett Steiger
Producer
Atropia Ratings & Reviews
NPR
Aisha Harris
The film (and especially the excellent Shawkat) juggles a bunch of different tones and it succeeds at some better than others. But it's scrappy and oddball enough to withstand some of its more scattered ideas around the stupidity of war.
Rendy Reviews
Rendy Jones
Atropia is barely a movie, more of a backdoor pilot for an FX series that would have aired in 2009
Edge Media Network
Frank J. Avella
(Atropia) is the stuff of genius satire with a fab ensemble led by the hilarious Alia Shawkat and sexy charmer Callum Turner.
Film Inquiry
Kristy Strouse
While Alia Shawkat is amazing and the film's absurdity amusing, it never fully capitalizes on its premise.
The Playlist
Marshall Shaffer
[Gates'] perspective is clear, even if it's difficult to reduce into a slogan: war is a business - show business, to be specific.
Spliced Personality
Sean Burns
I guess it makes sense that the only real stinker I saw this year went home with the biggest prize.
Pajiba
Jason Adams
Shawkat and Turner share such a weird, fun chemistry together that even as Atropia wanders off the map and into a desert of its own making it's hard to get too worked up about [it] - their relationship is fraught and goofy and totally charming
The Film Stage
Jake Kring-Schreifels
At its worst, Atropia can suggest a glorified second-half SNL sketch, not nearly as funny or incisive as it wants to be.
Awards Radar
Joey Magidson
Atropia wastes an intriguing premise with half-formed satire.
Screen Zealots
Louisa Moore
Despite an interesting premise, it stumbles under the weight of its own ambition, delivering a smug, exhausting experience that tries too hard to be clever without ever earning it.
Slant Magazine
Rocco T. Thompson
In its messy unreality, in the way its characters remain as ignorant in the end as they were at the start of the film, in its looking back at 2006 from our post-fact era, it finds something profoundly simple in the trivial.
InSession Film
Will Bjarnar
It's a crying shame that Gates never got to shoot the documentary she originally intended Atropia to be, due to the government's restrictions on materials, because (there is) little interest in mining its own fictional revelations.
Variety
Siddhant Adlakha
Both its lampooning of U.S. militarism and its central character drama lack follow-through.
Consequence
Mary Siroky
Atropia is often stronger as a satire of Hollywood and the perils of "actor brain" than it is as a critique of the US military.
Cinema Daily US
Edward Douglas
A clever and satisfying comedy that mixes elements that might never normally be in the same movie. Who knew that a movie about such a serious subject could be so funny?
FandomWire
Sean Boelman
Actress and journalist Hailey Gates makes her feature debut as a writer-director with the satirical Atropia, an unfunny comedy that squanders its intriguing concept and talented cast.
IndieWire
David Ehrlich
Like so many satires based on true events, "Atropia" fails the most basic test of its worthiness: It never feels more vital or interesting than it would be to watch a documentary on the same subject.
RogerEbert.com
Robert Daniels
You get the sense that Gates wants this satire to make a larger statement about America's war on terror, but she often stops short.
The Hollywood Reporter
Lovia Gyarkye
The promised satire becomes a repetitive collection of indiscriminately aimed jokes. Gates offers an incredibly compelling premise... but in taking on so much, her film ends up not saying enough.
TheWrap
Chase Hutchinson
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 without authentically skewering or even poking at any of them.
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