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‘Atropia' Review: Alia Shawkat Trains Troops Assigned to a Fake Iraqi Town in a Self-Reflexive War Comedy That Peters Out
The year is 2006 and this is Atropia, a fictional country in California, used as a stand-in to train new cadets for deployment to wherever America happens to be invading (in this case, Iraq).
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‘Atropia’ Review: Hollywood and War Aren’t So Different in Unfocused and Overambitious Satire | Sundance 2025
Though the term “war movie” may evoke one-note images of guns, blood, and battlefields, in actuality, it’s a rather eclectic genre. Inglourious Basterds and Come and See, for instance, are ...
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‘Atropia’ Review: Alia Shawkat Trains Troops Assigned to a Fake Iraqi Town in a Self-Reflexive War Comedy That Peters Out
A Landmark Homage to the Unsung Workers of the American West Plays Out Across Forests and Joel Edgerton's Face The year is 2006 and this is Atropia, a fictional country in California, used as a ...