Atrabilious

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Atrabilious

2024

1h 40m

Mystery & Thriller

Drama

Comedy

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Atrabilious follows Steven Joyner as he tries to solve the mystery behind his son's sudden, tragic and potentially fabricated death. He is led to the titular bar, Atrabilious, and begins to unravel the history of the establishment.

Monique Jones

Common Sense Media

Jul 22

Writer-director William Atticus Parker's thriller/dramedy offers his fans a quirky puzzle of a story.

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Luna Guthrie

Collider

Jul 17

3/10

I have seldom found a movie such a perplexing, threadbare, and utterly irritating experience as I did Atrabilious. It ignores almost every convention of movie-making, seemingly not out of stylistic choice, but out of naïveté.

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Dennis Schwartz

Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews

09/24/2024

B-

Held my attention throughout.

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Eddie Harrison

film-authority.com

04/26/2023

4/5

…even if some mysteries don’t fully explain themselves, Atrabilious is a very entertaining work from a promising director…

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Michael Talbot-Haynes

Film Threat

04/11/2023

7/10

Sure, Atrabilious has flaws and shortcomings, but the promise shown here is unmistakable.

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Bobby LePire

Film Threat

04/05/2023

9.5/10

If one doesn’t mind some odd moments, then Parker’s motion picture will scratch that neo-noir itch in the best possible way.

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Stephen C

@bob25009 Mar 16

Funny in 1 hour and 40 minutes.

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TheMovieSearch R

@TheMovieSearch Jan 6

Atrabilious is a bafflingly bad movie that feels more like a rough first-time filmmaking experiment than a finished feature, which makes the involvement of Whoopi Goldberg even more confusing. The film attempts to center on grief and the mystery surrounding a son’s death, but that premise is buried under bizarre dialogue, incoherent themes, and strange detours that never connect. The screenplay is a mess, filled with awkward conversations about past lives, identity, and symbolism that come off as unintentionally ridiculous rather than meaningful. Nothing builds naturally, and the story never finds momentum or clarity. Scenes drag on without purpose, making the film exhausting to sit through. Even the cast can’t save it. Performances are weighed down by poor writing and unfocused direction, leaving the entire film feeling amateurish and unfinished. Atrabilious is confusing, dull, and frustrating—an easy skip and a movie that’s hard to finish, let alone recommend.

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Atrabilious follows Steven Joyner as he tries to solve the mystery behind his son's sudden, tragic and potentially fabricated death. He is led to the titular bar, Atrabilious, and begins to unravel the history of the establishment.

Director: William Atticus Parker
Producer: William Atticus Parker
Screenwriter: William Atticus Parker
Distributor: Buffalo 8
Production Co: River Styx Productions
Genre: Mystery & Thriller, Drama, Comedy
Original Language: English
Release Date (Streaming): Jul 18, 2025
Runtime: 1h 40m

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