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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.
What are people saying?
What are critics saying?
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New York Daily News by Elizabeth Weitzman
It's a stunner.
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ReelViews by James Berardinelli
The result is magical and life affirming, and will enrapture those who are not scared away by the mention of "subtitles."
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The New York Times by Manohla Dargis
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).
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Entertainment Weekly by Owen Gleiberman
Slumdog Millionaire is nothing if not an enjoyably far-fetched piece of rags-to-riches wish fulfillment.
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Rolling Stone by 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.
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Despite its elements of brutality, this is a buoyant hymn to life, and a movie to celebrate.
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Driven by fantastic energy and a torrent of vivid images of India old and new, Slumdog Millionaire is a blast.
Slumdog Millionaire is well-deserving of its Oscar win. Aside from being an entertaining watch through and through, the way the film embeds hidden meanings through depicting the society of modern-day India really made me think and delve deeper behind the surface-level laughter.
An absolutely magical film and a ringing endorsement of optimism and the miracles of life.