Slumdog Millionaire Critic Reviews
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Based upon 15 Critic Reviews- Highest Rated
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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
Slumdog Millionaire is nothing if not an enjoyably far-fetched piece of rags-to-riches wish fulfillment.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
The result is magical and life affirming, and will enrapture those who are not scared away by the mention of "subtitles."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
Doesn't hit its stride until the last 30 minutes, and by then, it's just a little too late.Read the full review
A stylish, ingeniously constructed bit of hokum, a sparkling trinket of a movie that's as implausible as it is irresistible.Read the full review
What's perhaps most fascinating about the film is Boyle's relentless focus on the realities of present-day India as a vehicle for his spectacle and laughs.Read the full review
In the end, what gives me reluctant pause about this bright, cheery, hard-to-resist movie is that its joyfulness feels more like a filmmaker's calculation than an honest cry from the heart about the human spirit (or, better yet, a moral tale).Read the full review
