Jamal Malik is an impoverished Indian teen who becomes a contestant on the Hindi version of ‘Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?’ but, after he wins, he is suspected of cheating.
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,
12 Dec 2008
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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,
9 Jan 2009
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The best movie of 2008.
– Richard Roeper,
Richard Roeper.com,
7 Feb 2009
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It's Oliver Twist by way of City of God.
– Peter Howell,
Toronto Star,
20 Feb 2013
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Boyle takes his wildly high-energy visual aesthetic and applies it to a story that, at its core, is rather sweet and traditionally crowdpleasing.