Movie Review: "The Reluctant Fundamentalist"

THE BOSTON GLOBE
By Ty Burr

HOLLYWOOD---Whether it’s a case of life imitating art or art imitating life, “The Reluctant Fundamentalist” makes for queasy but fairly worthy viewing less than a month after the Boston Marathon bombings. The new film by Mira Nair (“Monsoon Wedding”), based on the acclaimed 2007 novel by Mohsin Hamid, concerns a young Pakistani man, Changez (Riz Ahmed), who has attained the American dream at 25 only to find it crumbling in his hands in the post-9/11 landscape. The crucial difference is that Changez chooses the path of nonviolence. Or does he? That ambiguity is at the heart of “The Reluctant Fundamentalist.” [link]

(A&O Rating: ★★★★)