Atropia

Name: Atropia
Genre: Drama, Comedy, War
Released: December 12, 2025
Duration: 104 min
Rating: 53

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Vertical | Release Date: December 12, 2025 | Not Rated

Summary: When an aspiring actress (Alia Shawkat) in a military role-playing facility falls in love with a soldier (Callum Turner) cast as an insurgent, their unsimulated emotions threaten to derail the performance.

Genre(s): Drama, Comedy, War

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 104 min

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The Playlist Marshall Shaffer

Feb 5, 2025

Trying to clarify the fog of war is a patently paradoxical task, Gates successfully argues – and she can prove the assertion within the grand satirical framework of the script or in a wry comic detail derived from the immediacy of a scene. Read full review

RogerEbert.com Clint Worthington

Dec 12, 2025

At the end of the day, “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. Read full review

Screen Rant Patrice Witherspoon

Jan 30, 2025

Not everything works and the humor tends to run its course, but Gates puts a solid effort together given the limitations. Read full review

Glenn Kenny

Dec 11, 2025

The movie, written and directed by Hailey Benton Gates, wants to be a lot of things at once, including a satire and a dark rom-com. It bites off more than it can comfortably chew. However, the cast, also featuring Tim Heidecker, Chloë Sevigny and Channing Tatum, is charismatic and at times piercingly funny. Read full review

The Film Stage Jake Kring-Schreifels

Feb 5, 2025

As the movie’s romantic arc unfolds, everything just feels a little too goofy and distracted, considering the earnest monologue that Fayruz gives near the end that questions why so many young men and women are dying for causes they don’t understand. Read full review

Natalia Keogan

Dec 11, 2025

Without a tangible connection to the material—most notably to Iraq and its people—Gates’ viewpoint feels unguided, doomed to be influenced by the same pervasive prejudices that Atropia ostensibly attempts to combat. Read full review

The Guardian Benjamin Lee

Jan 30, 2025

The aimless and unfunny shenanigans of Atropia never really lead to anything and they certainly don’t lead us anywhere that demands the sudden level of dramatic seriousness that the ending brings about. Read full review

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