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Your official Purim drinking game for Mel Brooks’ ‘History of the World, Part II’
A handy, holiday guide for Jewish streamers
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The greatest film about France in World War II is also a blistering critique of filmmaking
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‘South Park’ delivers a strong satire of Kanye West’s antisemitism
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