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By Ella Taylor (978) for NPR (1,713) on 24 Apr 2013

Nair likes to have fun even when her material is somber, and for this movie she deploys a rich palette and a multi-culti but mostly kitsch-free…

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By Kenneth Turan (2,323) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 24 Apr 2013

The result inevitably pushes too hard at times and can't help but stray into melodrama, yet the film does an admirable job of transplanting…

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By Manohla Dargis (1,909) for The New York Times (9,847) on 24 Apr 2013

By literalizing the idea of American military aggression and all that it implies Ms. Nair doesn’t just invest Mr…

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By Joe Morgenstern (2,395) for Wall Street Journal (3,071) on 24 Apr 2013

The movie's failures are all the more unfortunate because they detract from its central and conspicuous success, the performance of Riz Ahmed…

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By Doris Toumarkine (464) for Film Journal International (5,095) on 23 Apr 2013

Dense, ambitious, consistently interesting but sometimes murky cross-cultural, cross-continental exploration of the roots of extremism, prejudice…

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By Sam Adams (514) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 23 Apr 2013

This might be the best week for The Reluctant Fundamentalist to open or the worst, but the timing doesn’t matter when the powder is damp…

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By Stephanie Zacharek (2,333) for Film.com (1,892) on 23 Apr 2013

Although The Reluctant Fundamentalist raises some complicated questions, in the end, it doesn’t challenge that much…

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By Jonathan Kiefer (305) for Village Voice (8,525) on 22 Apr 2013

At times it's dense and sluggish, too much like a novel. But there is some exhilaration to be had…

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By Keith Uhlich (870) for Time Out (7,510) on 22 Apr 2013

Ticking-time-bomb suspense is not Nair’s forte, so she relies on Michael Andrews’s Middle East–inflected score to do most of the heavy…

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By Oliver Lyttelton (141) for The Playlist (3,871) on 22 Apr 2013

Kiefer Sutherland feels somewhat miscast as the mentor, but nowhere near as badly as Hudson is as the love interest…

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By Que B (1) on 16 Apr 2013

A well-made film by Mira Nair that will open up some important dialogue. Fantastic performance by Riz Ahmed…

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By Tarah M (31) on 15 Apr 2013

Mira Nair has created a masterpiece with this film…

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By Abhimanyu Das (25) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 14 Apr 2013

The laziest sort of political cinema, full of straw men and finger-pointing, wrapped up in an awards-friendly bow by its beautiful cinematography…

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By Anton Bitel (1,340) for Sight and Sound (827) on 06 Mar 2013

Nair carefully manipulates the viewers' prejudices & forces us to take sides in a conflict more complicated than it first appears, all to make…

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By Stacey B (101) on 19 Nov 2012

Mira Nair again reminds us of her frustrating inconsistency as a filmmaker, enlisting a fine cast and strong technicals - Declan Quinn's sumptuous…

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By Shaun Munro (472) for What Culture (594) on 29 Oct 2012

Mira Nair again reminds us of her frustrating inconsistency as a filmmaker, enlisting a fine cast and strong technicals - Declan Quinn's sumptuous…

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By Somaya K (1) on 17 Oct 2012

Really great bit of storytelling , Rez Ahmed is amazing , from playing street hoods to this role , quite a talent…

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By Lotika P (1) on 08 Oct 2012

Saw it at TIFF. The story was predictable but nicely done…

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