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blog.spout.com - 1/13/2009

SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE: the backlash begins

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We’ve never been big fans of Slumdog Millionaire here at the SpoutBlog. Kevin Buist was first underwhelmed with Danny Boyle’s hyperactive Mumbai game show movie at Telluride , where he called it “hectic and sloppy, especially considering the rigid and somewhat boring ...

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Cinematical:  Fan Rant: 'Slumdog' and Other Backlashes

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telegraph.co.uk - 1/12/2009

Slumdog Millionaire: the first film of the Obama era

— telegraph.co.uk — It has been an earth-shaking few days for British director Danny Boyle, screenwriter Simon Beaufoy and the cast of their Mumbai-set movie Slumdog Millionaire . The film has captured the imagination of the public and critics alike, and is the clear ... (more) Slumdog Millionaire: the first film of the Obama era

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largeassmovieblogs.blogspot.com - 1/14/2009

LAMBScores: Slumdog Millionaire

— largeassmovieblogs.blogspot.com — The Dark of the Matinee Sarahnomics Doodad Kind of Town The Stop Button Punch Drunk Critics Cut. Print. Review. The Flick Chick Pluck You, Too! The Critical Critics I'm Feeling So Blahg From the Front Row Bitchin' Film Reviews Film ... (more) LAMBScores: Slumdog Millionaire

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fataculture.wordpress.com - 1/6/2009

Review: “Slumdog Millionaire”

— fataculture.wordpress.com — With a kinetic surge of motion, emotion and a dash of sumptuous colour and kaleidoscopic interludes between past and present, Danny Boyle manipulates his uncanny ability to dance between genres and the highs and lows of life in the gutter with ... (more) Review: “Slumdog Millionaire”

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Fan Rant: 'Slumdog' and Other Backlashes
Cinematical — ... backlash is starting to crescendo, with some of the film's detractors becoming even more incensed now that it won all those Golden Globes on Sunday. (The fact that some people consider the Golden Globe a legitimate award, instead of a meaningless gesture by swag-influenced, celebrity-interviewing junketeers, is a topic for another day.) Our colleagues at SpoutBlog are proud of the fact that they disliked Slumdog before it was cool to do so, and Karina Longworth notes today that while their anti-Slumdog sentiments were once met with fury and outrage, ...