One of the most mixed of Sundance 2025 - Atropia is a very funny satire about the clashing of Hollywood and political war, with a perfect role for the charming and always funny lead actor Ali Shawkat, as well as featuring a very funny supporting cast of who’s who, but unfortunately Atropia struggles to juggle the comedy and the seriousness of its subject matter and back drop, creating an experience that doesn’t feel complete as a comedy, with characters that feel unfinished and unsatisfactory, and a romantic subplot that doesn’t earn its meaningfulness. Atropia is half good, but once the love interest is injected things get confusingly whacky and therefore uninteresting, and the film wastes Jane Levy. 5/10.
- Maurice Jones
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