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By John A. Nesbit (472) for Old School Reviews (429) on 15 Nov 2008

Boyle's dynamic camera angles and lively pacing memorably tour the Indian landscape…

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By J. R. Jones (1,337) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 14 Nov 2008

The movie brushes against some of India's worst social ills, but it's essentially a fairy tale…

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By Fred Topel (1,193) for Can Magazine (288) on 14 Nov 2008

I get why Slumdog Millionaire is getting all the raves. It's well done and it's the kind of movie that gets people's attention. Just not mine…

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By Liz Braun (961) for Jam! Movies (2,396) on 14 Nov 2008

The storytelling is wobbly at times, but the tale itself is so engaging you'll overlook all that. Well, most of it, anyway…

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By Cynthia Fuchs (1,328) for PopMatters (2,617) on 14 Nov 2008

That this sentimental journey is structured as well by the game show connects this jaunty thriller with Boyle's dazzling opus on consumers…

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By Tim Brayton (2,283) for Antagony & Ecstasy (1,911) on 14 Nov 2008

Such style! ...the most exhilarating movie of prestige season, even as it is almost entirely taken up with suffering…

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By David Edelstein (2,124) for New York Magazine/Vulture (3,519) on 13 Nov 2008

The whole thing is irresistibly preposterous…

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By Amy Nicholson (961) for I.E. Weekly (269) on 13 Nov 2008

Why, when Boyle has for half a film been such a devastating purveyor of social class suffering, would he turn as glossy as a Disney cartoon…

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By Brandon Fibbs (448) for Christianity Today (953) on 13 Nov 2008

Slumdog Millionaire is, quite simply, one of the best films of 2008…

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By Brian Orndorf (4,059) for BrianOrndorf.com (1,055) on 13 Nov 2008

A classic story of adversity told with outstanding passion and visual agility...it's almost guaranteed to soothe any viewer with a soft spot…

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By Ann Hornaday (1,919) for Washington Post (9,851) on 13 Nov 2008

Like all good fairy tales, this outsize celebration of perseverance and moral triumph contains within it a deeper idea -- in this case, the…

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By Glenn Whipp (553) for Los Angeles Daily News (1,272) on 13 Nov 2008

Bursting with energy, color and a bracing humanism, Danny Boyle's Slumdog Millionaire is an underdog story that you can feel plenty good about liking…

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By Scott Foundas (913) for L.A. Weekly (3,142) on 13 Nov 2008

An almost ridiculously ebullient Bollywood-meets-Hollywood concoction--and one of the rare feel-good movies that actually makes you feel good,…

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By Elizabeth Weitzman (1,905) for New York Daily News (5,623) on 13 Nov 2008

When Boyle pulls back to show us his grand vision, it's a stunner…

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By Lou Lumenick (2,103) for New York Post (6,650) on 13 Nov 2008

Four stars simply aren't enough for Danny Boyle's Slumdog Millionaire, which just may be the most entertaining movie I've ever labeled a masterpiece…

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By Brian Tallerico (1,600) for Movie Retriever (197) on 12 Nov 2008

Drama, comedy, musical, thriller, love story, and more in one transcending, riveting story…

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By Laura Clifford (2,742) for Reeling Reviews (4,376) on 12 Nov 2008

Slumdog Millionaire's game show gambit is both the film's hook and its undoing, intellectually intriguing in its structural use yet emotionally…

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By Kevin Mccarthy (392) for WJFK-FM (CBS Radio) (143) on 12 Nov 2008

Slumdog Millionaire is definitely Boyle's best film to date taking the use of cinematography, music and story telling to a new level…

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By Michael Phillips (2,622) for Chicago Tribune (6,211) on 12 Nov 2008

After last year's black-hearted No Country for Old Men, the Oscars may well be in the mood to embrace a fairy tale sampling every imaginable…

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By Andrew Sarris (502) for New York Observer (1,400) on 12 Nov 2008

Much of the film is so overwhelming as sheer mass spectacle that it serves as a sobering view of an overpopulated part of the world that defies…

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