Mstyslav Chernov, the Oscar-winning Associated Press journalist, won the world cinema documentary directing award for his ...

T here’s an inherent farce to the U.S. government, or so Hailey Gates suggests in her debut feature film, Atropia. Based on ...

It isn’t the greatest satire ever made, but Gates’ feature is like a one-stop shop for mockery and education with some fun in ...

The most fascinating elements of Atropia expose another layer of the ... Gates shows the ease with which ordinary people contribute to the nation’s war machine. One wishes that the director ...

“We’re all just set dressing,” one of the characters in “Atropia” says. But in this particular movie, the set has more to say than any of the people trying to act their way out of it.

In Atropia, Gates, who also wrote the screenplay ... Gates shows the ease with which ordinary people contribute to the nation’s war machine. One wishes that the director had used this thread ...

I think America’s misunderstanding of the people they’re invading is inherently ... [Gates’ short film that serves as the basis for ‘Atropia’] and thought, ‘Oh no, Alia can’t act.

Premiering Saturday at the Sundance Film Festival, “Atropia” begins exactly how ... new opportunities for herself in movies that other people will be able to see on the big screen, screaming ...

The most fascinating elements of Atropia expose another layer of the military-entertainment ... Gates shows the ease with which ordinary people contribute to the nation’s war machine. One wishes that ...

Like Gates’ short, “Atropia” opens with a near-identical ... It hints at the kinds of young people — naïve, desperate or over-eager — who get subsumed by hyper-masculine U.S. military ...