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The Reluctant Fundamentalist

2012

Mira Nair

Riz Ahmed, Kiefer Sutherland, Kate Hudson, Liev Schreiber ...

6.0

1,020

Thriller. Drama A young Pakistani (Riz Ahmed) graduated in Princeton and living in New York is chasing corporate success on Wall Street. He finds himself embroiled in a conflict between his American Dream, a hostage crisis, and the enduring call of his family's homeland.

	Author	Review
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"A sweeping and heartfelt tale of divided loyalties and reversion to type, in a world where the complacent ideas of globalised capitalism were shattered by 9/11 (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Justin Chang Variety	"Mira Nair's latest immigrant saga saddles itself with a laborious narrative structure and half-baked thriller elements in a misguided attempt to open up what should be an intimate, introspective story"	NEG
United States	Michael O'Sullivan The Washington Post	"It’s an an engrossing story, bracingly told (...) Wheeler’s screenplay takes its time, allowing the nuances of Changez’s transformation to reveal themselves organically"	POS
United States	Manohla Dargis The New York Times	"By literalizing the idea of American military aggression and all that it implies Ms. Nair doesn’t just invest Mr. Hamid’s story with Hollywood-style beats, she also completely drains it of ambiguity"	NEG
United States	Omer M. Mozaffar rogerebert.com	"Riz Ahmed's subtle transformations carry the film (...) Nair has made a very smart film, whose ambitions sometimes exceed the piece's depths (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"	POS

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