And a new review from Elder Statesman John:

Bend It Like Beckham. (A-) This delightful movie combines two great and often-filmed themes: the generational conflict between parents and adolescent children, and the cultural conflict that occurs when immigrants' traditional values run up against the values of the new milieu in which they find themselves. If the parents learn to let go of their children, and if the newcomers learn to embrace or at least accept the new (inevitably more individualistic) ethic of their adopted country, you can pretty well count on a happy ending. Failure to follow this course of action, by contrast, invariably leads to tragedy. I won't spoil the ending for you, but this movie is no tragedy.