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movies.nytimes.com - 11/12/2008

Movie Review | 'Slumdog Millionaire': Orphan’s Lifeline Out of Hell Could Be a Game Show in Mumbai

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A gaudy, gorgeous rush of color, sound and motion, “Slumdog Millionaire” doesn’t travel through the lower depths, it giddily bounces from one horror to the next. >

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youtube.com - 11/10/2008

Slumdog Millionaire - Trailer (video)

— youtube.com — From Danny Boyle, director of Trainspotting and 28 Days Later, comes the story of Jamal Malik, an... 18 year-old orphan from the slums of Mumbai, who is about t... (more) Slumdog Millionaire - Trailer (video)

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apple.com - 11/7/2008

Slumdog Millionaire - Trailer

— apple.com — Jamal Malik, a penniless eighteen year-old orphan from the slums of Mumbai, is one question away from... winning a staggering 20 million rupees on India’s ”Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?” But when the show breaks for the night, ... (more) Slumdog Millionaire - Trailer

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trailers.filmintuition.com - 11/7/2008

Slumdog Millionaire (2008)

— trailers.filmintuition.com — MovieWeb - Movie Photos, Videos & More MovieWeb - Movie Photos, Videos & More Visit the Website... Theatrical Trailer Read the Book The Films of Danny Boyle Text Copyright © 2008, Film Intuition. All Rights Reserved. ... (more) Slumdog Millionaire (2008)

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Slumdog Millionaire.
GreenCine Daily — ... , doesn't travel through the lower depths, it giddily bounces from one horror to the next," writes Manohla Dargis in the New York Times. "A modern fairy tale about a pauper angling to become a prince, this sensory blowout largely takes place amid the squalor of Mumbai, India, where lost children and dogs sift through trash so fetid you swear you can smell the discarded mango as well as its peel, or could if the film weren't already hurtling through another picturesque gutter." ...

Critic wrangle: "Slumdog Millionaire."
IFC.com - Indie Eye — ... was a hit at Toronto, where it won the Audience Award, and is a solid candidate for a sleeper hit in the new "Juno" sense of the term, given that the film's from an established director and cost a reported $15 million (cheap!). Will it sleeper its way to an Oscar nomination? It's certainly edgily feel-good; as Manohla Dargis at the New York Times puts it, "this proves to be one of the most upbeat stories about living in hell imaginable." For her, the film's visual stunning if a little too calculating: "In the end, what gives me reluctant pause about this bright, ...

Slumdog Dazzles Critics
Awards Daily — ... The NY Times’ Manohla Dargis tries to reconcile the emotion she feels with her cold, hard common sense, caught somewhere between enjoying it and faking it, as though this ride were battery operated rather than the real thing: ...