🏛️ Politics 17h ago · Nicholas Harris

Riz Ahmed’s comedy of anguish

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In 2010, Riz Ahmed starred in Chris Morris’s Four Lions, one of the most daring films that could conceivably be made about British Muslims. As a comedy about a homegrown cell of aspiring terrorists, it is simultaneously murderous and sympathetic. Its cast – half vicious Mujahedin, half dozy fools – hopes that heavenly martyrdom will be one long “Rubber Dinghy Rapids” ride and curses Boots for selling “condoms that make you want to bang white girls”. The film remains an authentically disturbing e

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