In Mira Nair's The Reluctant Fundamentalist, the fundamentalist of the title is Changez (Riz Ahmed), a young Pakistani man who moves to the U.S. to study business at Princeton. He eventually realizes the American dream—a Wall Street job, money, an attractive girlfriend (Kate Hudson)—but a variety of factors, among them America's prejudicial attitudes toward the Middle East post-9/11 and his feelings of responsibility to his family and home country, eventually drive him to possibly radical political views.It's a movie that might have worked had Nair made it five years ago. (Coincidentally, the novel upon which it is based came out in 2007.) We've had almost 12 years since 9/11 to absorb the fact that terrorism isn't as cut-and-dried as it appeared in the aftermath of that terrorist attack, so Nair beating us over the head with it here is less thought-provoking than annoying.