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'Slumdog Millionaire': The Great Escape
Danny Boyle's film is a hugely appealing slice of old-school Hollywood -- and Bollywood -- escapism.
'Slumdog Millionaire' is Worth the Pricenew
I'm not entirely sure how a film in which a small boy gets permanently blinded by someone deliberately pouring hot liquid onto his eyeballs while he's unconscious ends up being hyped (by critics and audiences alike) as the "feel-good" movie of the year, but that's the strange case with Slumdog Millionaire.
Creative Loafing (Charlotte) |
Matt Brunson |
12-10-2008 |
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'Slumdog Millionaire' is a Wealth of Richesnew
Along with its depictions of horrendous poverty, underage prostitution, child abuse and savage dehumanization of the developing world, it's also a terrific, feel-good film, an audience pleaser that offers a smidgen of hope in a world that's rapidly spiraling down the bowl.
San Diego CityBeat |
Anders Wright |
11-19-2008 |
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'Slumdog Millionaire': Game Show Masalanew
The potential for a treacly Good Will Hunting of the Mumbai ghetto abounds, but Danny Boyle and screenwriter Simon Beaufoy think more in terms of a minor-scale Dickensian epic.
L.A. Weekly |
Scott Foundas |
11-14-2008 |
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'Slumdog' Gives Guilty Liberals Absolution Through Game-Show Gimmickrynew
There hasn't been a social drama this decadently over-hyped since City of God. Boyle plays the same game of pandering to liberal sensibilities while entertaining safe, middle-class distance.
New York Press |
Armond White |
11-13-2008 |
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'Slumdog Millionaire' is One of the Best Films of the Yearnew
At first glance just another Third World children-of-the-slums weepie, it transcends the limitations of that slender genre in leaps and bounds.
East Bay Express |
Kelly Vance |
11-12-2008 |
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