Beaufoy has deftly honed the book's jagged narrative line, amalgamating characters and building smooth bridges between a collection of vignettes.
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02/05/09
Slumdog Millionaire (2008)
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Reviews Counted:34
Fresh:32
Rotten:2
Average Rating:8.1/10
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 - 19 (sorted by date; Australian critics are listed first)
Top CriticDickens would undoubtedly have approved: after all, his stories invariably had happy endings.
12/26/08
Top CriticThis is Boyle's best since Trainspotting.
12/19/08
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 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 CriticShows [Boyle] at the top of his form.
12/19/08
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 CriticCompelling and moving, bitter sweet and haunting, it's one of the best films of the year. Any year.
12/13/08
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 CriticMumbai’s brand new skyscrapers sprout out of patches of mud; Jamal’s old-fashioned principles will forever be out of synch with the slick, nightclub world that his older brother Salim inhabits. And so it goes. The romance? Fear not. It’s fabulous icing.
01/09/09
Top CriticDespite being overpraised - it arrives garlanded with the kind of reviews that must have come out after the opening night of King Lear - this is still very effective entertainment.
01/09/09
Top CriticDanny Boyle’s finest since Trainspotting. In fact, it’s the best British/Indian gameshow-based romance of the millennium.
01/09/09
Top CriticTogether Boyle and his co-director Loveleen Tandeen have created a portrait of a city in transition -- a place of relentless energy, of ambition and inspiration; of poverty and exploitation, of obscene riches and modest desires.
12/19/08
Top CriticThere are no surprises in this movie, and most people will be able to predict, within the first ten minutes, roughly how the last ten will pan out.
11/17/08
Top CriticLike 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 CriticThe best old-fashioned audience picture of the year, a Hollywood-style romantic melodrama that delivers major studio satisfactions in an ultra-modern way.
11/13/08
Top CriticThe beautifully rendered and energetic tale celebrates resilience, the power of knowledge and the vitality of the human experience. Horrifying, humorous and life-affirming, it is, above all, unforgettable.
11/12/08
Top CriticThis is a breathless, exciting story, heartbreaking and exhilarating at the same time.
11/12/08
Top CriticA gaudy, gorgeous rush of color, sound and motion, Slumdog Millionaire doesn’t travel through the lower depths, it giddily bounces from one horror to the next.
11/12/08
Top CriticSlumdog Millionaire is the film world's first globalized masterpiece.
09/05/08
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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
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