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SUNDANCE: ‘Atropia’ Can’t Marry Comedy With Irony
Atropia (2025) is a different kind of military movie, for better and worse. Written and directed by Hailey Gates, the movie comes out swinging with a whimsical score and a ridiculous instructional ...
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'Atropia' Review: Great Comedic Performers Are Stranded in a Toothless Wartime Satire
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 ...
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Alert: War satire 'Atropia' wins Sundance Film Festival's grand jury prize, Dylan O'Brien film 'Twinless' gets audience award
PARK CITY, Utah (AP) — War satire 'Atropia' wins Sundance Film Festival's grand jury prize, Dylan O'Brien film 'Twinless' gets audience award. Got a question? Put a reporter on it. Ever think of ...
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‘Atropia' and ‘Twinless’ win top prizes at Sundance Film Festival
PARK CITY, Utah (AP) — The war satire “Atropia,” about actors in a military role-playing facility, won the grand jury prize in the Sundance Film Festival’s U.S. dramatic competition ...
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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
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 ...