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By Andrew L. Urban (972) for Urban Cinefile (2,850) on 13 Dec 2008

Compelling and moving, bitter sweet and haunting, it's one of the best films of the year. Any year…

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By Amy Biancolli (582) for Houston Chronicle (970) on 12 Dec 2008

Slumdog Millionaire is not the cure for all the world's ills, but it comes close…

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By Louise Keller (804) for Urban Cinefile (2,850) on 12 Dec 2008

Danny 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…

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By Lawrence Toppman (1,654) for Charlotte Observer (1,670) on 12 Dec 2008

However improbable those circumstances get, Boyle and writer Simon Beaufoy (who adapted a novel by Vikas Swarup) keep us rooting for Jamal…

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By Robert W. Butler (884) for Kansas City Star (1,573) on 12 Dec 2008

It's a diverting yarn, one pulsing with unexpected sights and sounds. Sometimes you'd swear you can smell this movie…

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By Jeff Vice (1,455) for Deseret News (Salt Lake City) (1) on 11 Dec 2008

Patel is likable as Jamal, and Kapoor and Khan are terrific as always…

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By Duane Dudek (861) for Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (1,693) on 11 Dec 2008

Its social realism is a far cry from the escapist fare created by the Bollywood fantasy factory, but the percussive score by Bollywood veteran…

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By Roger Moore (6,008) for Orlando Sentinel (1,594) on 11 Dec 2008

[A] taut, tense and witty tale of human tragedy and triumphant humanity set against the sweep of modern India…

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By Jeffrey Chen (849) for Window to the Movies (638) on 11 Dec 2008

An unapologetic modern fairy tale ... The construct is so appealing, it's almost instantly classic…

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By Jonathan Kiefer (305) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 11 Dec 2008

With a good feel for environment as character, Boyle brings his customary vitality -- throbbing music, jaunty editing, showy cinematography…

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By Jackie K. Cooper (1,018) for jackiekcooper.com (943) on 10 Dec 2008

Worth seeing, but you slog through a lot of muck and mire to find the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow…

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By Mark R. Leeper (892) for rec.arts.movies.reviews (2,454) on 10 Dec 2008

Much of the story seems distorted for melodramatic effect…

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By Wesley Lovell (690) for Cinema Sight (678) on 09 Dec 2008

A romantic drama about fate's forceful hand at work is a charming film that sometimes feels too much like City of God to be a film about love…

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By Jordan Hiller (219) for Bangitout.com (219) on 07 Dec 2008

It is as if we are constantly reminded that we do not drink from the fountain of real wisdom, but rather, with Slumdog Millionaire, it is just…

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By Gina Carbone (187) for Seacoast Newspapers (NH/Maine) (187) on 07 Dec 2008

What is Slumdog Millionaire? A. The next Little Miss Sunshine. B. The greatest movie of all time. C. The most overrated movie of 2008. D…

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By Michelle Alexandria (310) for Eclipse Magazine (446) on 07 Dec 2008

Director Danny Boyle has crafted one of the best and most surprising films of the year…

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By Jeffrey M. Anderson (3,573) for Combustible Celluloid (2,644) on 05 Dec 2008

Boyle uses the stomping rhythms of Bollywood showtunes just as he used the thrusting beat of Iggy Pop to drive Trainspotting, and the result…

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By Eric D. Snider (2,489) for EricDSnider.com (2,026) on 04 Dec 2008

Anyone who is not smiling by the time the Bollywood-style closing-credits dance number arrives is surely dead inside…

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By Dennis Schwartz (5,456) for Ozus' World Movie Reviews (5,456) on 04 Dec 2008

Energetically merges Hollywood with Bollywood…

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By Rob Gonsalves (1,031) for eFilmCritic.com (5,125) on 03 Dec 2008

Danny Boyle's hyperactive camera and rude-boy style strain to manipulate us into the emotions the script doesn't honestly earn…

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