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...proves that good acting can elevate even the most standard material.

Learning To Drive has harmless sweetness, many revealing speeches about life, and a Kingsley performance that shades strongly into a “Robin Williams as a straight-faced foreigner” routine.

Darwan is a “good man” but not a saint. The film’s best sequences are in his tightknit Sikh community, where life is a mix of struggle and warmth.