Occurring between Jan. 23 and Feb. 2, the festival includes a selection of the top independent films produced over the past year. Films like “Opus,” “Atropia,” “Twinless,” “Lurker,” and so many more, ...

Click on the movie’s title to read our full take. Section: U.S. Dramatic Competition Director-screenwriter: Hailey Gates Cast: Alia Shawkat, Callum Turner, Chloë Sevigny, Tim Heidecker, Jane Levy ...

The foremost thespian working inside of Atropia is Fayruz (Alia Shawkat), a striving Serious Actor who ... Until the U.S. Government got in her way writer-director Hailey Gates had actually intended ...

What to know: Alia Shawkat stars as an aspiring actress ... Things get wonky when she falls in love. Writer-director Hailey Gates told me on the red carpet that this movie is based on a real ...

That’s the unsexy truth at the heart of Hailey Gates’ bizarre and bloody ... some of our worst militaristic impulses post 9/11. Alia Shawkat is magnetic on-screen, playing an aspiring actress ...

Hailey Gates’ ambitious debut feature Atropia ... The committed performances of Alia Shawkat and Callum Turner plus the Sundance US Grand Jury prize should guarantee attention for an uneven ...

As I was writing this report from Sundance 2025, the festival announced the winner of its Grand Jury Prize in the U.S. Dramatic Competition: Hailey Gates’s Atropia ... actors are there to make some ...

While the Sundance Film Festival mulls a big move for 2027, the 2025 program, its 41st edition, kicked off January 23 in Utah, and you can look below for all of Deadline’s reviews from the fest.

There is a moment in Atropia, Hailey Gates’ bold and deeply unsettling feature debut, where an actress — played with biting precision by Alia Shawkat — wanders into what appears to be an ...

Amid ongoing "marriage troubles" with Hailey Bieber, Justin Bieber's "hollow-eyed" appearance has raised concerns. On January 29, he was seen in New York City wearing beige chinos and a yellow hoodie, ...