Slumdog Millionaire Critic Reviews

You may even feel like dancing in the aisles yourself. Sure, the real world doesn't always work this way. Have you forgotten that this is one of the reasons why we go to movies in the first place?Read the full review

This is a breathless, exciting story, heartbreaking and exhilarating at the same time.Read the full review

Director Danny Boyle's riveting and kaleidoscopic tale, based on Vikas Swarup's debut novel "Q and A," is exquisitely adapted to the screen by Simon Beaufoy.Read the full review

Slumdog Millionaire is the film world's first globalized masterpiece.Read the full review

Slumdog Millionaire features the simplest story Boyle has ever told, which may explain why its many pleasures are so pure.Read the full review

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. No doubt Dickens himself would approve.Read the full review

Boyle has been nothing if not bold with this film. He's dared to use so many venerable movie elements it's dizzying, dared us to say we won't be moved or involved, dared us to say we're too hip to fall for tricks that are older than we are.Read the full review

Driven by fantastic energy and a torrent of vivid images of India old and new, Slumdog Millionaire is a blast.Read the full review

Brimming with humor and heartbreak, Slumdog Millionaire meets at the border of art and commerce and lets one flow into the other as if that were the natural order of things.Read the full review