The Infidel takes some all-too-predictable detours into moralizing and sentimentality, but remains consistently sharp as long as it sticks to its acerbic tone and saucy comic sensibility.
The Infidel
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United Kingdom · 2010
1h 45m
Director Josh Appignanesi
Starring Archie Panjabi, Omid Djalili, Igal Naor, Stewart Scudamore
Genre Comedy, Drama
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Mahmud Nasir, an East End Muslim, makes a shocking discovery after his mother dies: he was adopted and his birth certificate states that he is Jewish. The discovery triggers an identity crisis as Mahmud searches for answers, and he finds himself taking lessons in "Jewishness" from a drunken cab driver.
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The Hollywood Reporter by Frank Scheck
A would-be provocative satire that too often settles for sitcom-grade silliness, The Infidel represents an opportunity wasted.
The New York Times by Neil Genzlinger
The director, Josh Appignanesi, has a nice sense of comic timing, slipping in some of the best jokes when you least expect them.
The Globe and Mail (Toronto) by Rick Groen
At least The Infidel is an equal-opportunity blasphemer, and God bless it for that. Otherwise, this thing plays like a cheeky Brit-com blown up to feature length, with a thin coat rack of plot to hang the ethnic humour on, and a wish to offend without being offensive.
Los Angeles Times by Robert Abele
An admirably cagey effort to mine humor from the thorny cultural and racial divide that is Muslim-Jewish relations.
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