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

Like Gates’ short, “Atropia” opens with a near-identical scene of an Iraqi woman played by Alia Shawkat, witnessing U.S. troops rolling through her hometown in pursuit of a suspect right as ...

Sundance: Directed by "Challengers" actress Hailey Gates, "Atropia" gives the War on Terror it's own take on "The Truman Show." Case in point: One early sequence in ...

He challenged her to write the script for “Atropia” in only four weeks. “It was my most romantic writing experience because I was writing directly toward him,” she recalled. Gates and ...

More a forced, one-note farce than the sharp satire it's trying to be, "Atropia" is almost impressive in how it manages to ...

And it’s gonna happen. The frantic desire to be bleeped certainly captures the manic energy of his new, cockeyed rom-com, “Atropia,” directed by Hailey Gates and co-starring Alia Shawkat.

In writer-director Hailey Gates’ directorial debut Atropia, she dives into the Bush-era culture of toxic masculinity, nationalism and Islamophobia with an amusing and profoundly absurdist sense ...

“Atropia” never takes real shots at any of ... All that’s missing is a banner saying “MISSION ACCOMPLISHED” to unfurl in the background.

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). It ...

Atropia has everything ... like Maria (Shaholly Ayers), prepare by connecting to the background of their characters. Most of her coworkers, like Noor (Zahra Alzubaidi), don’t care and correctly ...

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 ...