"Allah Made Me Funny" A documentary with a tiny budget and a big spirit that follows three Muslim comics - Mohammed "Mo" Amer, Bryant "Preacher" Moss, and Azhar Usman - as they travel the country looking for laughs and understanding. The point is that these guys are ordinary Americans. Unfortunately, that extends to more of the jokes than you'd probably like. (83 min., unrated) (Ty Burr) "Appaloosa" Ed Harris's slightly offbeat western gives us a two for-hire lawmen (Harris and Viggo Mortensen) whose friendship is complicated when a widow (Renée Zellweger) comes to the New Mexico town that's hired them to keep the peace. The movie is traditional insofar as the western is a genre that tolerates certain character flaws. Unwarranted killing is a crime; promiscuity is not. And so Harris affectionately mines these rela-tionships...
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