“Atropia” is a masterfully dark satire because of how loud its subtleties are whilst remaining laugh-out-loud hilarious. With ...

There’s an inherent farce to the U.S. government, or so Hailey Gates suggests in her debut feature film, Atropia. Based on her 2019 short film Shako Mako, Gates expands her exploration of fake towns ...

While labeled as a satire, the captivatingly original “Atropia” is an all-too-real portrayal of the United States during the ...

Hailey Gates’ feature debut has fun, insightful ideas, though it seldom expands on them. Like Gates’ short, “Atropia” opens with a near-identical scene of an Iraqi woman played by Alia ...

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

Like many of the independent films that premiered at this muted edition of Sundance, “Atropia” has not yet sold to a ...

Actress and journalist Hailey Gates makes her feature debut as a writer-director with the satirical Atropia, an unfunny ...

The winners of the 2025 Sundance Film Festival include Dylan O'Brien's 'Twinless,' the comedy 'Atropia' and the documentary ...

Hailey Gates’ “Atropia” and Brittany Shyne’s “Seeds” claimed the top jury awards at Sundance, along with audience favorites ...

The war satire “Atropia” about actors in a military role-playing facility won the grand jury prize in the Sundance Film ...

Callum Turner, from left, Hailey Gates and Alia Shawkat attend the premiere of "Atropia" during the Sundance Film Festival on ...