New York Post by Lou Lumenick

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 in these pages.

Chicago Sun-Times by Roger Ebert

This is a breathless, exciting story, heartbreaking and exhilarating at the same time.

USA Today by Claudia Puig

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.

Wall Street Journal by Joe Morgenstern

Slumdog Millionaire is the film world's first globalized masterpiece.

The Globe and Mail (Toronto) by Liam Lacey

The story may stretch credibility until it's ready to pop its seams, but Patel conveys the simple confidence of a prodigy who has learned everything important in life, except how to lie.

Philadelphia Inquirer by 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.

Boston Globe by 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?

Baltimore Sun by Michael Sragow

Slumdog Millionaire dives headfirst into something greater than a subculture - the enormous unchronicled culture of India's mega-slums - and achieves even more sweeping impact.

Miami Herald by René Rodríguez

A terrific yarn, one so engrossing and surprising that the nature of the story's structure -- each question Jamal gets asked on the show corresponds with a traumatic or momentous moment from his childhood -- never feels like a contrived framing device.

Empire by Ian Nathan

Danny Boyle's finest since "Trainspotting." In fact, it's the best British/Indian gameshow-based romance of the millennium.

Village Voice by 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.

Variety by Todd McCarthy

Driven by fantastic energy and a torrent of vivid images of India old and new, Slumdog Millionaire is a blast.

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.

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."

Film Threat

Absolutely perfect family entertainment for anyone over the age of ten. It is a celebration of not just the usual triumph of the human spirit, but a celebration of the human experience.

New York Daily News by Elizabeth Weitzman

It's a stunner.

Time by Richard Corliss

Despite its elements of brutality, this is a buoyant hymn to life, and a movie to celebrate.

Entertainment Weekly by Owen Gleiberman

Slumdog Millionaire is nothing if not an enjoyably far-fetched piece of rags-to-riches wish fulfillment.

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).

The Hollywood Reporter

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.