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'Atropia' Review: Great Comedic Performers Are Stranded in a Toothless Wartime Satire
Even when it occasionally finds some goofy laughs, the expansion of Gates' short "Shako Mako" does nothing to earn a nearly two-hour runtime that ends up feeling much longer. When it tries to then ...
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‘Atropia’ Review: Alia Shawkat Trains Troops Assigned to a Fake Iraqi Town in a Self-Reflexive War Comedy That Peters Out
Based on her 2020 short “Shako Mako,” Hailey Gates writes and directs “Atropia,” a unique war satire about western views of the Middle East.While both its lampooning of U.S. militarism and ...
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‘Atropia’ Review: Great Comedic Performers Are Stranded in a Toothless Wartime Satire
Even when it occasionally finds some goofy laughs, the expansion of Gates’ short “Shako Mako” does nothing to earn a nearly two-hour runtime that ends up feeling much longer. When it tries to then ...