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Metascore®86 out of 100 | Universal acclaim

Critic scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating more favorable reviews.

  • 100
    USA Today | Claudia Puig

    Director Danny Boyle's riveting and kaleidoscopic tale, based on Vikas Swarup's debut novel "Q and A," is exquisitely adapted to the screen by Simon Beaufoy. Read full review

  • 100
    Chicago Sun-Times | Roger Ebert

    This is a breathless, exciting story, heartbreaking and exhilarating at the same time. Read full review

  • 91
    The Onion (A.V. Club) | Tasha Robinson

    Slumdog Millionaire features the simplest story Boyle has ever told, which may explain why its many pleasures are so pure. Read full review

  • 90
    Village Voice | Scott Foundas

    An almost ridiculously ebullient Bollywood-meets-Hollywood concoction--and one of the rare "feel-good" movies that actually makes you feel good, as opposed to merely jerked around. Read full review

  • 90
    Variety | Todd McCarthy

    Driven by fantastic energy and a torrent of vivid images of India old and new, Slumdog Millionaire is a blast. Read full review

  • 90
    Los Angeles Times | Kenneth Turan

    Boyle has been nothing if not bold with this film. He's dared to use so many venerable movie elements it's dizzying, dared us to say we won't be moved or involved, dared us to say we're too hip to fall for tricks that are older than we are. Read full review

  • 88
    ReelViews | James Berardinelli

    The result is magical and life affirming, and will enrapture those who are not scared away by the mention of "subtitles." Read full review

  • 80
    Time | Richard Corliss

    Despite its elements of brutality, this is a buoyant hymn to life, and a movie to celebrate. Read full review

  • 75
    Entertainment Weekly | Owen Gleiberman

    Slumdog Millionaire is nothing if not an enjoyably far-fetched piece of rags-to-riches wish fulfillment. Read full review

  • 70
    The New York Times | Manohla Dargis

    In the end, what gives me reluctant pause about this bright, cheery, hard-to-resist movie is that its joyfulness feels more like a filmmaker's calculation than an honest cry from the heart about the human spirit (or, better yet, a moral tale). Read full review

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