Compelling and moving, bitter sweet and haunting, it's one of the best films of the year. Any year.
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12/13/08
Slumdog Millionaire (2008)
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Reviews Counted:210
Fresh:196
Rotten:14
Average Rating:8.2/10
Consensus: Visually dazzling and emotionally resonant, Slumdog Millionaire is a film that's both entertaining and powerful.
Australian Theatrical Release:
Dec 18, 2008 Wide
US Box Office: $141,243,551
Synopsis: British director Danny Boyle takes another intriguing career turn with this heartfelt underdog tale. Jamal Malik (Dev Patel) is a street kid (or "slumdog") who has landed an appearance on India's... [More]
Reviews for Slumdog Millionaire
1 - 20 (sorted by fresh rating; Australian critics are listed first)
Top CriticWith its fine performances and impressive, if deliberately melodramatic direction, it’s a crowd-pleaser which manages to be both distressing and, strangely enough, immensely entertaining.
12/19/08
Top CriticDickens would undoubtedly have approved: after all, his stories invariably had happy endings.
12/26/08
Top CriticDanny Boyle has hit the jackpot with this wonderfully uplifting rags-to-riches story that has so much of everything, I felt as though I had won 20 million rupees myself. Above all, it's a love story, but also a story of survival
12/12/08
Top CriticThe climax was so tense I actually fell off my chair. And the ending had me in tears. Tears of joy.
12/19/08
Top CriticThis is Boyle's best since Trainspotting.
12/19/08
Top CriticShows [Boyle] at the top of his form.
12/19/08
Top CriticBeaufoy has deftly honed the book's jagged narrative line, amalgamating characters and building smooth bridges between a collection of vignettes.
02/05/09
Top CriticBoyle confidently mines the feelgood opportunities of Simon Beaufoy's screenplay, adapted from Vikas Swarup's novel, without letting the film collapse into soppiness or sentimentality.
12/19/08
Top CriticVivid, moving and breathlessly exciting, this enthralling mingling of fable, travelogue and social commentary sees Danny Boyle at the top of his game. Phone a friend and tell them not to miss it.
01/09/09
A spirited underdog fable marinated in modern India's melting pot. Danny Boyle's still the master of spices.
01/09/09
Slumdog offers a million other reasons to enjoy an escapist trip to the cinema, well away from the credit crunch.
01/09/09
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.
01/02/09
Hacía mucho que no salía tan conmovido por una película, con lágrimas de alegría mezcladas con las de la congoja ante ciertas realidades, golpeado por la belleza de lo simple, por la magia del cine.
02/23/09
Once Slumdog launches into its final act, you'll get that pang that comes with the last chapter of a great book you wish you weren't about to finish.
11/11/08
Slumdog Millionaire is not the cure for all the world’s ills, but it comes close. It solves, for instance, such endemic global problems as: a) sadness, b) lovelessness, c) cynicism, and d) the waning cultural relevance of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire.
12/12/08
a perfect rhapsody that within its confines of one seemingly small life, finds the key to life itself.
11/11/08
The real star of the film is not a person but a city, the vertiginous, exciting, massively overcrowded 'maximum city' of Mumbai.
11/12/08
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.
11/12/08
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.
11/13/08
Top CriticLatest News for Slumdog Millionaire
June 09, 2009:
Danny Boyle and Simon Beaufoy Move to Maximum City 
Danny Boyle will be staying in Bombay -- and reuniting with "Slumdog Millionaire" writer Simon Beaufoy -- for his next project, an adaptation of the non-fiction book "Maximum... More...
May 05, 2009:
2009 MTV Movie Awards Nominations Announced
The nominations for the 2009 MTV Movie Awards have been announced, with "Slumdog Millionaire" and "Twilight" each earning nominations in six categories. More...
March 31, 2009:
Five Favorite Films with Slumdog Millionaire's Anil Kapoor
Slumdog Millionaire's American audiences were enticed to watch by the name of director Danny Boyle or the movie's kinetic exploration of an exotic, far-away underbelly. In... More...
March 30, 2009:
RT on DVD: Exclusive Slumdog Millionaire Clip, Seven Pounds, and The Matrix 10th Anniversary Blu-ray
Jai Ho it up with the DVD debut of Danny Boyle's multiple Oscar-winning film, Slumdog Millionaire! It's also your week to catch films you might have missed in theaters, from... More...
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