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Atropia
Directed by
Hailey Benton Gates
R
2025
1h 43m
Drama
,
War
,
and more
5.8
41%
5.1
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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 / Executive Producer
Zahra Alzubaidi
Noor
Callum Turner
Abu Dice / Associate Producer
Cristian Valle
Ernesto
Toby Nichols
Private Pardo
Gil Perez-Abraham
Private Wyatt
June Carryl
Coco (aka Conrad)
Shaholly Ayers
Maria
Tim Blake Nelson
Mr. Speaker (voice)
Allius Barnes
Private Plant
Dash Melrose
Private Freeburn
Gilberto Ortiz
Private iPod
Blessing Oluwole
Private Duque
Charlet Duboc
Female Narrator
Jamie McShane
Segall
Jane Levy
Nancy
Priscilla Garita
Gloria
Tim Heidecker
Hayden
Chloë Sevigny
Pina
Sal Lopez
Jerry Jiminez
Atropia Ratings & Reviews
NPR
Bob Mondello
The setup's fun, the payoff less, but it's amusing.
RogerEbert.com
Clint Worthington
'Atropia' feels like Gates gesturing vaguely at a few really interesting notions about the military-entertainment complex, and how it can bleed through into the people waging the actual war.
Mark Reviews Movies
Mark Dujsik
[I]t's hard to determine what Gates is getting at with this material, except to show how absurd this arrangement and exercise are.
New York Times
Glenn Kenny
The cast, also featuring Tim Heidecker, Chloë Sevigny and Channing Tatum, is charismatic and at times piercingly funny.
Aisle Seat
Mike McGranaghan
The movie is distractingly uneven.
Blu-ray.com
Brian Orndorf
The feature is funny and odd, and while it doesn't come together in a more dynamic manner, Gates offers confident moviemaking at times, generating a memorable effort.
NYC Movie Guru
Avi Offer
It has an interesting premise, but suffers from tonal unevenness and not enough laughs, wit or satirical bite. If you want to see a warmer, funnier and provocative film starring Alia Shawkat, see Amreeka.
The Wandering Screen (YouTube)
Matthew Koss
Ultimately, Atropia is caught in the middle of a stronger comedy and a sharper satire.
rachelsreviews.net
Rachel Wagner
It's unexpected to have something so pro-soldier and military at Sundance but it's also satirizing the military and especially the press, which makes it interesting.
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.
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.
Variety
Siddhant Adlakha
Both its lampooning of U.S. militarism and its central character drama lack follow-through.
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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