Atropia (2025) (original) (raw)
When an aspiring actress in a military role-playing facility falls in love with a soldier cast as an insurgent, their unsimulated emotions threaten to derail the performance.
When an aspiring actress in a military role-playing facility falls in love with a soldier cast as an insurgent, their unsimulated emotions threaten to derail the performance. (less)
Director: Hailey Gates
Writer: Hailey Gates
Starring: Alia Shawkat, Callum Turner, Chlo� Sevigny, Tim Heidecker
Review by Brian Orndorf, December 10, 2025
7 / 10
�Atropia� is the feature-length debut for writer/director Hailey Gates, who adapts her 2019 short, �Shako Mako.� Gates doesn�t go the easy route, taking on the business of war with a satiric edge in the film, which hopes to provide some laughs as it explores the happenings at an �urban war simulation� populated with actors and people looking to make a little extra cash. The setting is ripe for a madcap take on the strangeness of U.S. government preparation practices, especially during the George W. Bush presidential years, but Gates is hunting for something offbeat with �Atropia.� There�s a re ...read more...
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