We must say it again: This movie is excellent. And this is your last chance to see it before the Oscars on February 25. Seattle director James Longley‘s triptych of Sunni, Shiite, and Kurdish life won him a 2006 Stranger Genius Award and now is competing for a Best Documentary Oscar with An Inconvenient Truth, Jesus Camp, Deliver Us from Evil, and My Country, My Country. (Varsity, 4329 University Way NE, 781-5755. 7:20 and 9:30 pm, $9.25.)

Jen Graves (The Stranger’s former arts critic) mostly writes about things you approach with your eyeballs. But she’s also a history nerd interested in anything that needs more talking about, from male...