Fresh
Boyle takes his wildly high-energy visual aesthetic and applies it to a story that, at its core, is rather sweet and traditionally crowdpleasing.
Christy Lemire, Associated Press
Slumdog Millionaire
What does it take to find a lost love?
2008 · 2h 1m · R
Drama, Romance
Directed by
Danny Boyle
,
Raj Zutshi
Overview
A teenager reflects on his life after being accused of cheating on the Indian version of "Who Wants to be a Millionaire?".
Director and cast
- Danny Boyle Director
- Raj Zutshi Director
- Anil Kapoor as Prem Kumar
- Dev Patel as Older Jamal
- Mia Drake Inderbitzin as Adele
- Freida Pinto as Older Latika
- Madhur Mittal as Older Salim
- Raj Zutshi as Director (as Raj Zutshi)
- Mahesh Manjrekar as Javed
- Saurabh Shukla as Sergeant Srinivas
- Irrfan Khan Cast
- Ankur Vikal Cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
92%
Tomatometer
Fresh
It's Oliver Twist by way of City of God.
Peter Howell, Toronto Star
Fresh
The best movie of 2008.
Richard Roeper, Richard Roeper.com
Fresh
Slumdog Millionaire, a film so upbeat and colourful that, by the time you're relaying its infectious air of optimism to friends, you could forget that it features orphans, slaughter, organised crime, poverty, enslavement and police brutality.
Dave Calhoun, Time Out
Fresh
Slumdog Millionaire is not the cure for all the world's ills, but it comes close. It solves, for instance, such endemic global problems as: a) sadness, b) lovelessness, c) cynicism, and d) the waning cultural relevance of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire.
Amy Biancolli, Houston Chronicle
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