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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
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's ...
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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 ...