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 Full Review »
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Boston Globe: Ty Burr
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 Full Review »
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Philadelphia Inquirer: Steven Rea
It doesn't happen often, but when it does, look out: a movie that rocks and rolls, that transports, startles, delights, shocks, seduces. A movie that is, quite simply, great.Read Full Review »
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CHICAGO SUN-TIMES: Roger Ebert
This is a breathless, exciting story, heartbreaking and exhilarating at the same time.Read Full Review »
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Washington Post: Ann Hornaday
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 Full Review »
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Village Voice: Scott Foundas
An almost ridiculously ebullient Bollywood-meets-Hollywood concoction--and one of the rare "feel-good" movies that actually makes you feel good, as opposed to merely jerked around.Read Full Review »
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LOS ANGELES TIMES: Kenneth Turan
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 Full Review »
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ReelViews: James Berardinelli
The result is magical and life affirming, and will enrapture those who are not scared away by the mention of "subtitles."Read Full Review »
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ROLLING STONE: Peter Travers
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 Full Review »
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Salon.com: Andrew O'Hehir
The real star of the film is not a person but a city, the vertiginous, exciting, massively overcrowded "maximum city" of Mumbai. On one hand, this environment of Dickensian, almost hallucinatory contrasts between rich and poor, good and evil feels perfect for Danny Boyle.Read Full Review »
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