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15 Movies We’re Excited to See at Sundance ’25
Last year’s lineup brought us I Saw The TV Glow and Between the Temples, and this year’s festival promises a number of oddities and originals.
Filmmaker, actress, and journalist Hailey Gates makes her feature film debut with Atropia starring Alia Shawkat and Callum Turner as actors on opposite sides of a military role-playing simulation who fall in love by accident. Gates is a fascinating emerging figure in the industry, recognizable to cinephiles for her brief turns in Twin Peaks: The Return, Uncut Gems, and Challengers as the poor woman in estate law who matches with Patrick Zweig on Tinder, as well as being the granddaughter of screenwriter Joan Tewkesbury. Atropia is kind of giving something between Black Mirror and Westworld, sure, but with a supporting cast that boasts Tim Heidecker, Chloë Sevigny, and Ivy Wolk, there’s room for Gates’s debut to be one of the fest’s funniest flicks.
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