not slumming

The best old-fashioned audience picture of the year, a Hollywood-style romantic melodrama that delivers major studio satisfactions in an ultra-modern way.
- Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times

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.
- Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly

This is a breathless, exciting story, heartbreaking and exhilarating at the same time.
- Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

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.
- Peter Travers, Rolling Stone

Despite its elements of brutality, this is a buoyant hymn to life, and a movie to celebrate.
- Richard Corliss, TIME Magazine

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.
- James Berardinelli, ReelViews

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.
- Manohla Dargis, New York Times

A creative and honest narrative of the tragedies and triumphs of the human spirit. The film's recent fortunes reflect the story it wants to tell. And yes, this is the only time you will see my name alongside these respected film critics.
- grifter, newyorkjuan.blogspot.com



* speaking of reviews, i got solicited for a guest spot on my other interests. won't happen again, so i thank the cool dudes over at doomkopf for the invite.