Four lions

Short-listed for a prize at the Sundance Film Festival, and starring Riz Ahmed, this is a film packed with surprises, not the least of which is its disarming capacity to bring both laughter and tears to the cheeks of many an unsuspecting cinema-goer. In the opening and closing scenes, we see the bombers messing up their suicide videos — and in between we watch them recruit the crow, blow up sheep, and blunder farcically from one tragicomic shenanigan to the next.

Cara Grant