The Muslims Are Coming!
This good-hearted documentary tracks the US comedy tour undertaken by a group of standup comedians who happen to be Muslim. Seeing one Muslim standup is cool, but seeing five Muslim standups, each one trying to be the funniest Muslim in the room (while looking very little alike), is revelatory. Directors (and featured performers) Negin Farsad and Dean Obeidallah spice up their road-trip footage with pedantic gags and spliced-in video bits of Islamophobia in action. The fearless comics make a number of important points with charm: Muslims live among us and always have. Very, very few of them want to kill us. And some of them are funny as poop. (DAVID SCHMADER)