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Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune: Slumdog Millionaire is a ruthlessly effective paean to destiny, leaving nothing to chance. It also has a good shot at winning this year's Academy Award for best picture, if the pundits, Allah, Shiva and Fox Searchlight Pictures have anything to say Read more
Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: The best old-fashioned audience picture of the year, a Hollywood-style romantic melodrama that delivers major studio satisfactions in an ultra-modern way. Read more
Ben Mankiewicz, At the Movies: Worth seeing. Read more
Ann Hornaday, Washington Post: Like all good fairy tales, this outsize celebration of perseverance and moral triumph contains within it a deeper idea -- in this case, the relative nature of what we think we know, and what's worth knowing at all. Read more
Amy Nicholson, I.E. Weekly: Why, when Boyle has for half a film been such a devastating purveyor of social class suffering, would he turn as glossy as a Disney cartoon? Read more
David Edelstein, New York Magazine/Vulture: Slumdog Millionaire is [Boyle's] liveliest fusion of style and content since Trainspotting. Read more
Lou Lumenick, New York Post: 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. Read more
Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal: Slumdog Millionaire is the film world's first globalized masterpiece. Read more
Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times: An intoxicating mix of genres: comedy, drama, suspense, even Bollywood-style musical. Read more
Tasha Robinson, AV Club: Slumdog Millionaire features the simplest story Boyle has ever told, which may explain why its many pleasures are so pure. Read more
Bill Goodykoontz, Arizona Republic: The film is a delight. Read more
Ty Burr, Boston Globe: I'll keep this simple: Cancel whatever you're doing tonight and go see Slumdog Millionaire instead. Read more
J. R. Jones, Chicago Reader: The movie brushes against some of India's worst social ills, but it's essentially a fairy tale. Read more
Amy Biancolli, Houston Chronicle: 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. Read more
Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor: Danny Boyle's Slumdog Millionaire is trying very hard to be a Dickensian fable for our time. Read more
Lisa Kennedy, Denver Post: Watching Slumdog Millionaire, it's easy to believe director Danny Boyle has been working toward this brilliantly woven masterwork with each entertaining and diverse tale he's delivered. Read more
Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: Slumdog Millionaire is nothing if not an enjoyably far-fetched piece of rags-to-riches wish fulfillment. It's like the Bollywood version of a Capra fable sprayed with colorful drops of dark-side-of-the-Third-World squalor. Read more
Cole Haddon, Film.com: Not that the movie from director Danny Boyle isn't satisfying, isn't more than worth seeing. But I had been expecting cinematic fireworks to justify the claim that it's the best movie of the new millennium. Read more
Scott Foundas, L.A. Weekly: Bollywood melodramas it stylistically apes, Boyle's film is unapologetically pop, even as Boyle himself seems to be at once inside and outside the idiom, embracing it while winking slyly at our collective need for escapist fantasy. Read more
Anthony Lane, New Yorker: There are no surprises in this movie, and most people will be able to predict, within the first ten minutes, roughly how the last ten will pan out. Read more
Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger: Both tragic and joyful, it's like a musically accented Oliver Twist, a lightly curried Frank Capra. Read more
Bob Mondello, NPR: Romantic, action-packed and always held together by an intriguing social conscience, Slumdog Millionaire is a rapturous crowd pleaser. Read more
Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News: When Boyle pulls back to show us his grand vision, it's a stunner. And everything suddenly falls into place, as if this uncommonly daring film was fated to work from the very start. Read more
Manohla Dargis, New York Times: 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. Read more
Andrew Sarris, New York Observer: Much of the film is so overwhelming as sheer mass spectacle that it serves as a sobering view of an overpopulated part of the world that defies any judgmental analysis. Read more
Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel: [A] taut, tense and witty tale of human tragedy and triumphant humanity set against the sweep of modern India. Read more
Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer: 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. Read more
James Berardinelli, ReelViews: Boyle's feature draws the viewer in, immersing him in a fast-moving, engaging narrative featuring a protagonist who is so likeable it's almost unfair. Read more
Richard Roeper, Richard Roeper.com: The best movie of 2008. Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: This is a breathless, exciting story, heartbreaking and exhilarating at the same time. Read more
Peter Travers, Rolling Stone: Slumdog Millionaire has the goods to bust out as a scrappy contender in the Oscar race. It's modern India standing in for a world in full economic spin. Read more
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: It's fair to say that the movie ends so well that it will redeem the entire experience for many viewers. It all depends on how you feel about the sluggish 90 minutes that went before. Read more
Christy Lemire, Associated Press: Boyle takes his wildly high-energy visual aesthetic and applies it to a story that, at its core, is rather sweet and traditionally crowdpleasing. Read more
Dana Stevens, Slate: Danny Boyle's Slumdog Millionaire is a stylish, ingeniously constructed bit of hokum, a sparkling trinket of a movie that's as implausible as it is irresistible. Read more
Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune: If Charles Dickens set Oliver Twist in 21st-century Mumbai, reimagining the sweeping story of love and friendship, poverty and tragedy through a Bollywood lens, the result would be a lot like Slumdog Millionaire. Read more
Joe Williams, St. Louis Post-Dispatch: It's an underdog crowd-pleaser, a radiant love story and a taste of Bollywood splendor. Read more
Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail: Slumdog Millionaire is skillful entertainment, with the simple message that the most intense life experiences yield the greatest education. Read more
Peter Howell, Toronto Star: It's Oliver Twist by way of City of God. Read more
Richard Corliss, TIME Magazine: Despite its elements of brutality, this is a buoyant hymn to life, and a movie to celebrate. Read more
Dave Calhoun, Time Out: 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. Read more
Christopher Orr, The New Republic: [E]ven at its most harrowing and heartbreaking, Slumdog Millionaire is never less than deliriously entertaining. Read more