Slumdog Millionaire Reviews
San Diego Union-Tribune
Slumdog Millionaire is a giddy, breathtaking experience, kind of like winning a million bucks. It's also tough, violent and shocking.
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| Original Score: 3.5/4
Top CriticBoyle takes his wildly high-energy visual aesthetic and applies it to a story that, at its core, is rather sweet and traditionally crowdpleasing.
Screen International
Danny Boyle's bravura command of the film medium elevates the melodramatic Slumdog Millionaire into a dazzling crowd-pleaser teeming with the sights, sounds and sensations of modern India.
TV Guide's Movie Guide
A great movie is something more than the sum total of all its parts, and here, the elements all come together to form a feature that speaks a universal form of optimism that isn't likely to get lost in translation.
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| Original Score: 3.5/4
TheShiznit.co.uk
Slumdog Millionaire is a film that's rich with character, emotion and pathos - with a supremely uplifting finale that'll leave your head in the clouds, it's the kind of movie that will significantly brighten your day.
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| Original Score: 5/5
Time Out Chicago
It's a big, exuberant film that revels in the joy of a good story.
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| Original Score: 4/5
American Profile
Jets along on a rocket-fuel cocktail of blood-pumping adrenaline, powerful secrets, searing heartache and rousing uplift.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Digital Spy
There's currently plenty of Oscar buzz and it's richly deserved, as Slumdog Millionaire ranks alongside The Wrestler as the two latest masterpieces of the 21st Century.
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| Original Score: 5/5
San Diego Metropolitan
Dev Patel and Freida Pinto, the older Jamal and Latika, will make you smile and cry and happy you saw Slumdog Millionaire, which will certainly be in the Oscar hunt.
DCist
Like a director from Hollywood's golden age, Boyle has a particular talent for putting a realistic spin on the outlandish.
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| Original Score: 8.4/10
Florida Times-Union
Features a striking hero named Jamal Malik, who is as intrepid, indomitable and pure of heart as an idealized medieval knight.
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| Original Score: 4/4
Washington Times
Slumdog Millionaire immerses the audience in an alien landscape and shows it through the eyes of a young man fighting against history and his own culture's expectations.
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| Original Score: 3.5/4
CinePassion
Shows how a critic-pleasing film can be every bit as overbearing as a crowd-pleasing one
Moviedex
Captivatingly told, dynamically directed and superbly acted; Slumdog Millionaire is near unfaultable.
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| Original Score: 5/5
BET.com
The greatest part of 'Slumdog' is that it transcends all boundaries: race, gender, region and class.
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| Original Score: B+
Boston Phoenix
In retrospect it remains implausible and manipulative while still making elegant sense.
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| Original Score: 3/4
NewsBlaze
A hyperactive rags to riches yarn playing out on the mean streets of Mumbai, and with a rousing all-star Bollywood boogie finale and even a little far fetched romance tossed in, to send any problematic plot points on their way.
Apollo Guide
I'm all for scepticism over the latest 'hot' movie; the really great ones effortlessly blow such scepticism out of the water. This film most certainly does that.
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| Original Score: 89/100
