The Magnificent Seven, Queen of Katwe, The Dressmaker, Goat, My Blind Brother, Cameraperson, The Lovers and the Despot

The Magnificent Seven

Queen of Katwe



The Dressmaker

Goat



My Blind Brother

Cameraperson



The Lovers and the Despot

Capsules on a movie week of great highs and modest lows:

The Reluctant Fundamentalist

There's a reductionist quality to Mira Nair's "The Reluctant Fundamentalist" that doesn't wash with me. Riz Ahmed plays Changez Khan, brilliant and brimming with self-confidence, who comes to America from Pakistan, aces college and business school, and lands a high-paying job with a top Wall Street consulting firm. Only after 9/11 does he feel the tug of his homeland, and only because a couple of dehumanizing civil liberties violations force him to grapple with his identity. On one occasion, he's pulled from a TSA airport line and strip-searched; on another, he's mistaken for a thief to whom he bears at best an attenuated physical resemblance and arrested and brought in for questioning ("How do you feel about America?").