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Slumdog Millionaire (2008) scores a combined 3.30 out of 4 stars for One Guy's Opinion (Frank Swietek)One Guy's Opinion (Frank Swietek)
An exhilarating experience that transcends the cuteness and contrivance of its basic premise through the sheer bravura of its filmmaking. ...read the complete Slumdog Millionaire movie review at One Guy's Opinion (Frank Swietek)
Slumdog Millionaire (2008) scores a combined 3.30 out of 4 stars for Projection Booth (Rob Humanick)Projection Booth (Rob Humanick)
Nothing if not more than the sum of its parts. ...read the complete Slumdog Millionaire movie review at Projection Booth (Rob Humanick)
Slumdog Millionaire (2008) scores a combined 3.30 out of 4 stars for Las Vegas Review-Journal (Carol Cling)Las Vegas Review-Journal (Carol Cling)
Potentially treacly material, yet in the hands of director Danny Boyle, Slumdog soars on the strength of its beguiling characters and exotic setting. ...read the complete Slumdog Millionaire movie review at Las Vegas Review-Journal (Carol Cling)
Slumdog Millionaire (2008) scores a combined 3.30 out of 4 stars for E! Online (Skylaire Alfvegren)E! Online (Skylaire Alfvegren)
This spacious meld of old, old-school Hollywood and traditional Indian saga slathered with just a pinch of Bollywood ought to have enough spice and romance for the suburbs. ...read the complete Slumdog Millionaire movie review at E! Online (Skylaire Alfvegren)
Slumdog Millionaire (2008) scores a combined 3.30 out of 4 stars for EricDSnider.com (Eric D. Snider)EricDSnider.com (Eric D. Snider)
Anyone who is not smiling by the time the Bollywood-style closing-credits dance number arrives is surely dead inside. ...read the complete Slumdog Millionaire movie review at EricDSnider.com (Eric D. Snider)
Slumdog Millionaire (2008) scores a combined 3.30 out of 4 stars for Oregonian (Shawn Levy)Oregonian (Shawn Levy)
At times, it feels somewhat schematic and overloaded. But the spirit of the thing -- both the narrative and the filmmaking -- is undeniable. ...read the complete Slumdog Millionaire movie review at Oregonian (Shawn Levy)
Slumdog Millionaire (2008) scores a combined 3.25 out of 4 stars for TIME Magazine (Richard Corliss)TIME Magazine (Richard Corliss)
Despite its elements of brutality, this is a buoyant hymn to life, and a movie to celebrate. ...read the complete Slumdog Millionaire movie review at TIME Magazine (Richard Corliss)
Slumdog Millionaire (2008) scores a combined 3.25 out of 4 stars for Globe and Mail (Liam Lacey)Globe and Mail (Liam Lacey)
Slumdog Millionaire does the neat trick of making us both ignore and subliminally enjoy the melodramatic manipulation, distracting us with its multistrand plot and caffeinated editing, before resolving on a predictable but satisfying conclusion ...read the complete Slumdog Millionaire movie review at Globe and Mail (Liam Lacey)
Slumdog Millionaire (2008) scores a combined 3.25 out of 4 stars for Seacoast Newspapers (NH/Maine) (Gina Carbone)Seacoast Newspapers (NH/Maine) (Gina Carbone)
What is Slumdog Millionaire? A. The next Little Miss Sunshine. B. The greatest movie of all time. C. The most overrated movie of 2008. D. The most un-Danny Boyle Danny Boyle film. Only one answer... ...read the complete Slumdog Millionaire movie review at Seacoast Newspapers (NH/Maine) (Gina Carbone)
Slumdog Millionaire (2008) scores a combined 3.20 out of 4 stars for Watertown Daily Times (Adam Tobias)Watertown Daily Times (Adam Tobias)
I can't honestly say that I am pulling for Slumdog Millionaire to walk away with the golden statue, but if it does in fact happen, I wouldn't think about complaining for one second. ...read the complete Slumdog Millionaire movie review at Watertown Daily Times (Adam Tobias)
Slumdog Millionaire (2008) scores a combined 3.20 out of 4 stars for The Scorecard Review (Jeff Bayer)The Scorecard Review (Jeff Bayer)
All of the dots fit together very nicely and this journey is one I would take again in a second. Though I was hoping for tears of joy at the end and I didn't get it. But I was close. ...read the complete Slumdog Millionaire movie review at The Scorecard Review (Jeff Bayer)
Slumdog Millionaire (2008) scores a combined 3.20 out of 4 stars for Sydney Morning Herald (Sandra Hall)Sydney Morning Herald (Sandra Hall)
Shows [Boyle] at the top of his form. ...read the complete Slumdog Millionaire movie review at Sydney Morning Herald (Sandra Hall)
Slumdog Millionaire (2008) scores a combined 3.20 out of 4 stars for This is London (Derek Malcolm)This is London (Derek Malcolm)
It’s a fantasy with realist stud marks, full of energy, colour and, frankly, cliché. ...read the complete Slumdog Millionaire movie review at This is London (Derek Malcolm)
Slumdog Millionaire (2008) scores a combined 3.20 out of 4 stars for This is London (Anthony Quinn)This is London (Anthony Quinn)
I'm not sure it's a great movie, but it's certainly a great audience movie. ...read the complete Slumdog Millionaire movie review at This is London (Anthony Quinn)
Slumdog Millionaire (2008) scores a combined 3.20 out of 4 stars for Daily Mail [UK] (Christopher Tookey)Daily Mail [UK] (Christopher Tookey)
Is it a great movie? For me, it falls well short. But I don't see how anyone could deny that Slumdog Millionaire is terrific, exhilarating, inspirational entertainment. ...read the complete Slumdog Millionaire movie review at Daily Mail [UK] (Christopher Tookey)
Slumdog Millionaire (2008) scores a combined 3.20 out of 4 stars for The Age (Australia) (Sandra Hall)The Age (Australia) (Sandra Hall)
Beaufoy has deftly honed the book's jagged narrative line, amalgamating characters and building smooth bridges between a collection of vignettes. ...read the complete Slumdog Millionaire movie review at The Age (Australia) (Sandra Hall)
Slumdog Millionaire (2008) scores a combined 3.20 out of 4 stars for Film Snobs (Jimmy O)Film Snobs (Jimmy O)
No Matter What Genre Boyle Delves Into, this is a Beautiful and Suspenseful Fairy Tale. ...read the complete Slumdog Millionaire movie review at Film Snobs (Jimmy O)
Slumdog Millionaire (2008) scores a combined 3.20 out of 4 stars for Cinematical (Kim Voynar)Cinematical (Kim Voynar)
There's sadness and tragedy within Slumdog Millionaire -- starvation, genocide, child prostitution and overwhelming oppression -- but there's humor, humanity and dignity as well. ...read the complete Slumdog Millionaire movie review at Cinematical (Kim Voynar)
Slumdog Millionaire (2008) scores a combined 3.20 out of 4 stars for New York Daily News (Elizabeth Weitzman)New York Daily News (Elizabeth Weitzman)
When Boyle pulls back to show us his grand vision, it's a stunner. And everything suddenly falls into place, as if this uncommonly daring film was fated to work from the very start. ...read the complete Slumdog Millionaire movie review at New York Daily News (Elizabeth Weitzman)
Slumdog Millionaire (2008) scores a combined 3.20 out of 4 stars for Film Threat (Scott Mendelson)Film Threat (Scott Mendelson)
Boyle and Tandan have made an enchanting story about the power of knowledge, knowledge gained from experiences and gained from life itself. ...read the complete Slumdog Millionaire movie review at Film Threat (Scott Mendelson)
Slumdog Millionaire (2008) scores a combined 3.20 out of 4 stars for Austin Chronicle (Marc Savlov)Austin Chronicle (Marc Savlov)
Like Mumbai, Slumdog pulses and throbs with raw, unadulterated life and the hope for a better Bombay, today. It's brilliant. ...read the complete Slumdog Millionaire movie review at Austin Chronicle (Marc Savlov)
Slumdog Millionaire (2008) scores a combined 3.00 out of 4 stars for Entertainment Weekly (Owen Gleiberman)Entertainment Weekly (Owen Gleiberman)
Slumdog Millionaire is nothing if not an enjoyably far-fetched piece of rags-to-riches wish fulfillment. It's like the Bollywood version of a Capra fable sprayed with colorful drops of dark-side-of-the-Third-World squalor. ...read the complete Slumdog Millionaire movie review at Entertainment Weekly (Owen Gleiberman)
Slumdog Millionaire (2008) scores a combined 3.00 out of 4 stars for Bangitout.com (Jordan Hiller)Bangitout.com (Jordan Hiller)
It is as if we are constantly reminded that we do not drink from the fountain of real wisdom, but rather, with Slumdog Millionaire, it is just a movie, that it is most assuredly written. ...read the complete Slumdog Millionaire movie review at Bangitout.com (Jordan Hiller)
Slumdog Millionaire (2008) scores a combined 3.00 out of 4 stars for Reeling Reviews (Laura Clifford)Reeling Reviews (Laura Clifford)
"Slumdog Millionaire's" game show gambit is both the film's hook and its undoing, intellectually intriguing in its structural use yet emotionally distancing in failing to suspend disbelief. ...read the complete Slumdog Millionaire movie review at Reeling Reviews (Laura Clifford)
Slumdog Millionaire (2008) scores a combined 3.00 out of 4 stars for Salon.com (Andrew O'Hehir)Salon.com (Andrew O'Hehir)
The real star of the film is not a person but a city, the vertiginous, exciting, massively overcrowded 'maximum city' of Mumbai. ...read the complete Slumdog Millionaire movie review at Salon.com (Andrew O'Hehir)
Slumdog Millionaire (2008) scores a combined 3.00 out of 4 stars for Kansas City Star (Robert W. Butler)Kansas City Star (Robert W. Butler)
It's a diverting yarn, one pulsing with unexpected sights and sounds. Sometimes you'd swear you can smell this movie. ...read the complete Slumdog Millionaire movie review at Kansas City Star (Robert W. Butler)
Slumdog Millionaire (2008) scores a combined 3.00 out of 4 stars for Oscar Guy (Wesley Lovell)Oscar Guy (Wesley Lovell)
A romantic drama about fate's forceful hand at work is a charming film that sometimes feels too much like City of God to be a film about love. ...read the complete Slumdog Millionaire movie review at Oscar Guy (Wesley Lovell)
Slumdog Millionaire (2008) scores a combined 3.00 out of 4 stars for Newsday (Rafer Guzman)Newsday (Rafer Guzman)
An entertaining, ingenious yarn, despite a few loose ends. ...read the complete Slumdog Millionaire movie review at Newsday (Rafer Guzman)
Slumdog Millionaire (2008) scores a combined 3.00 out of 4 stars for New York Press (Armond White)New York Press (Armond White)
Boyle is a poverty pimp with an Avid. ...read the complete Slumdog Millionaire movie review at New York Press (Armond White)
Slumdog Millionaire (2008) scores a combined 3.00 out of 4 stars for Combustible Celluloid (Jeffrey M. Anderson)Combustible Celluloid (Jeffrey M. Anderson)
Boyle uses the stomping rhythms of Bollywood showtunes just as he used the thrusting beat of Iggy Pop to drive Trainspotting, and the result is his best picture since that 1996 hit. ...read the complete Slumdog Millionaire movie review at Combustible Celluloid (Jeffrey M. Anderson)
Slumdog Millionaire (2008) scores a combined 3.00 out of 4 stars for Atlantic City Weekly (Lori Hoffman)Atlantic City Weekly (Lori Hoffman)
... Director Danny Boyle paints a vivid, painful picture of child exploitation, racism, jealousy, violence and survival. ...read the complete Slumdog Millionaire movie review at Atlantic City Weekly (Lori Hoffman)
Slumdog Millionaire (2008) scores a combined 3.00 out of 4 stars for Wall Street Journal (Joe Morgenstern)Wall Street Journal (Joe Morgenstern)
There's never been anything like this densely detailed phantasmagoria -- groundbreaking in substance, damned near earth-shaking in style. ...read the complete Slumdog Millionaire movie review at Wall Street Journal (Joe Morgenstern)
Slumdog Millionaire (2008) scores a combined 3.00 out of 4 stars for Washington Post (Ann Hornaday)Washington Post (Ann Hornaday)
Like all good fairy tales, this outsize celebration of perseverance and moral triumph contains within it a deeper idea -- in this case, the relative nature of what we think we know, and what's worth knowing at all. ...read the complete Slumdog Millionaire movie review at Washington Post (Ann Hornaday)
Slumdog Millionaire (2008) scores a combined 3.00 out of 4 stars for Film Journal International (Kevin Lally)Film Journal International (Kevin Lally)
Clever, stylish and highly entertaining, Slumdog Millionaire is one of the rare foreign-language films with potential to reach a big stateside audience. ...read the complete Slumdog Millionaire movie review at Film Journal International (Kevin Lally)
Slumdog Millionaire (2008) scores a combined 3.00 out of 4 stars for Old School Reviews (John A. Nesbit)Old School Reviews (John A. Nesbit)
Boyle's dynamic camera angles and lively pacing memorably tour the Indian landscape ...read the complete Slumdog Millionaire movie review at Old School Reviews (John A. Nesbit)
Slumdog Millionaire (2008) scores a combined 3.00 out of 4 stars for Hollywood Reporter (Peter Brunette)Hollywood Reporter (Peter Brunette)
Bottom Line: A high-octane hybrid of Danny Boyle's patented cinematic overkill and Bollywood's ultra-energetic genre conventions that is a little less good than the hype would have it. ...read the complete Slumdog Millionaire movie review at Hollywood Reporter (Peter Brunette)
Slumdog Millionaire (2008) scores a combined 3.00 out of 4 stars for L.A. Weekly (Scott Foundas)L.A. Weekly (Scott Foundas)
Bollywood melodramas it stylistically apes, Boyle's film is unapologetically pop, even as Boyle himself seems to be at once inside and outside the idiom, embracing it while winking slyly at our collective need for escapist fantasy. ...read the complete Slumdog Millionaire movie review at L.A. Weekly (Scott Foundas)
Slumdog Millionaire (2008) scores a combined 2.90 out of 4 stars for Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus (Bryant Frazer)Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus (Bryant Frazer)
Engineered to go down easy, Slumdog Millionaire is occasionally chilling and frequently delightful in its artifice. ...read the complete Slumdog Millionaire movie review at Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus (Bryant Frazer)
Slumdog Millionaire (2008) scores a combined 2.80 out of 4 stars for jackiekcooper.com (Jackie K. Cooper)jackiekcooper.com (Jackie K. Cooper)
Worth seeing, but you slog through a lot of muck and mire to find the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow ...read the complete Slumdog Millionaire movie review at jackiekcooper.com (Jackie K. Cooper)
Slumdog Millionaire (2008) scores a combined 2.80 out of 4 stars for Jam! Movies (Liz Braun)Jam! Movies (Liz Braun)
The storytelling is wobbly at times, but the tale itself is so engaging you'll overlook all that. Well, most of it, anyway. ...read the complete Slumdog Millionaire movie review at Jam! Movies (Liz Braun)
Slumdog Millionaire (2008) scores a combined 2.80 out of 4 stars for Tolucan Times (Tony Medley)Tolucan Times (Tony Medley)
This is an interesting, inventively told, look at life in India, but Oscar-quality? With apologies to John McEnroe, you cannot be serious. ...read the complete Slumdog Millionaire movie review at Tolucan Times (Tony Medley)
Slumdog Millionaire (2008) scores a combined 2.80 out of 4 stars for Denton Record Chronicle (TX) (Boo Allen)Denton Record Chronicle (TX) (Boo Allen)
The remarkably versatile Danny Boyle renders a tale both harrowing and touching, without becoming maudlin. ...read the complete Slumdog Millionaire movie review at Denton Record Chronicle (TX) (Boo Allen)
Slumdog Millionaire (2008) scores a combined 2.75 out of 4 stars for Christian Science Monitor (Peter Rainer)Christian Science Monitor (Peter Rainer)
Danny Boyle's Slumdog Millionaire is trying very hard to be a Dickensian fable for our time. ...read the complete Slumdog Millionaire movie review at Christian Science Monitor (Peter Rainer)
Slumdog Millionaire (2008) scores a combined 2.75 out of 4 stars for New York Observer (Andrew Sarris)New York Observer (Andrew Sarris)
Strangely, much of the film is so overwhelming as sheer mass spectacle that it serves as a sobering view of an overpopulated part of the world that defies any judgmental analysis. In this respect, Bollywood is merely Hollywood on fantasy steroids. ...read the complete Slumdog Millionaire movie review at New York Observer (Andrew Sarris)
Slumdog Millionaire (2008) scores a combined 2.67 out of 4 stars for Time Out New York (Joshua Rothkopf)Time Out New York (Joshua Rothkopf)
A simple yet euphoric rags-to-riches drama, one that shoehorns in terror, action and an unusual amount of class politics for mainstream entertainment. ...read the complete Slumdog Millionaire movie review at Time Out New York (Joshua Rothkopf)
Slumdog Millionaire (2008) scores a combined 2.50 out of 4 stars for Chicago Reader (J. R. Jones)Chicago Reader (J. R. Jones)
The movie brushes against some of India's worst social ills, but it's essentially a fairy tale. ...read the complete Slumdog Millionaire movie review at Chicago Reader (J. R. Jones)
Slumdog Millionaire (2008) scores a combined 2.50 out of 4 stars for Deseret News, Salt Lake City (Jeff Vice)Deseret News, Salt Lake City (Jeff Vice)
Patel is likable as Jamal, and Kapoor and Khan are terrific as always. ...read the complete Slumdog Millionaire movie review at Deseret News, Salt Lake City (Jeff Vice)
Slumdog Millionaire (2008) scores a combined 2.50 out of 4 stars for New York Magazine (David Edelstein)New York Magazine (David Edelstein)
Slumdog Millionaire is [Boyle's] liveliest fusion of style and content since Trainspotting. ...read the complete Slumdog Millionaire movie review at New York Magazine (David Edelstein)
Slumdog Millionaire (2008) scores a combined 2.50 out of 4 stars for Cinema Writer (Jay Antani)Cinema Writer (Jay Antani)
It's about time we come up with a name for how...Third World cultures are exploited by Western filmmakers. Thirdploitation, anyone? ...read the complete Slumdog Millionaire movie review at Cinema Writer (Jay Antani)
Slumdog Millionaire (2008) scores a combined 2.50 out of 4 stars for Can Magazine (Fred Topel)Can Magazine (Fred Topel)
I get why Slumdog Millionaire is getting all the raves. It's well done and it's the kind of movie that gets people's attention. Just not mine. ...read the complete Slumdog Millionaire movie review at Can Magazine (Fred Topel)
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by bekalynn on July 16, 2009 Blue Island, Illinois
I loved this movie, but I want to make it clear it is not for very young children. There are some violent actions towards children in the movie. The acting (especially the kids) is fabulous and the camera work is gorgeous. However, what I enjoyed ...
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by Tetramobile on July 17, 2009 New York, New York
This movie is quite good, but I don't think that it should have won an Oscar. I just think that it was decent. I can't believe they were able to make this work with Who Want to be a Millionaire as a the plot of the story. Although, they pulled ...
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Slumdog Millionaire (2008) is ranked overall as out of 4 stars
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Slumdog Millionaire (2008) is ranked overall as out of 4 stars
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