No, Ferne Pearlstein's latest film, The Last Laugh, is not a remake of F.W. Murnau's classic 1924 German masterpiece, but rather a documentary about the intersection of Jewish comedy and the Holocaust...

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And though I have mixed feelings about the open-ended conclusion, I applaud Shoval for refusing to play nice....

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Beautifully photographed and perfectly edited, The Islands and the Whales is a powerful, if challenging, documentary that needs to be seen.

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We've seen many "hookers with a heart of gold" stories before, but none like this...

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Young enough to work as a teenager, and athletic enough to work as a badass, Noble owns the movie, a lithe avenger like no other.

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