57
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6 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 70The New York TimesNeil GenzlingerThe New York TimesNeil GenzlingerThe director, Josh Appignanesi, has a nice sense of comic timing, slipping in some of the best jokes when you least expect them.
- 60EmpireEmpireFunny and unthreatening, it's not subversive but it's plenty of fun.
- 60VarietyVarietyThe 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.
- 60Los Angeles TimesRobert AbeleLos Angeles TimesRobert AbeleAn admirably cagey effort to mine humor from the thorny cultural and racial divide that is Muslim-Jewish relations.
- 50The Hollywood ReporterFrank ScheckThe Hollywood ReporterFrank ScheckA would-be provocative satire that too often settles for sitcom-grade silliness, The Infidel represents an opportunity wasted.
- 50The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Rick GroenThe Globe and Mail (Toronto)Rick GroenAt 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.