His father was a respected servant of Islam and Hamas was the family business, yet Mosab Hassan Yousef’s exposure to the marked inhumanity of the suicide-bombing terrorist organization led him to go undercover as a spy for the Israelis. The Green Prince is a compelling true-life adventure tale, reduced to an oral history lesson and administered by a pair of talking heads: Shin Bet recruitment officer Gonen Ben Yitzhak and renegade Palestinian double-agent Yousef. In the spirit of TV news magazines, their static narrations are jazzed up by flash frames and dank, fuzzy dramatic recreations interspersed throughout. More compelling than the Oscar-nominated Shin Bet expose/video game, The Gatekeepers, but not by much. This is one of those rare exceptions when I advise you’d be better off waiting for Hollywood to hop on the bandwagon and transform the material into a slam-bang action thriller. (2014) — Scott Marks
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