"Slumdog Millionaire" is not as good as its parts. It's definitely not as good as its hype. And if we take away the colors and the full-speed camera movement, we take away the film's motive. All this ...
Danny Boyle's "Slumdog Millionaire" hits the ground running. This is a breathless, exciting story, somehow heartbreaking and exhilarating at the same time, about a Mumbai orphan who rises from literal ...
Here in America, we are surrounded by Hollywood movies and it is very easy to get the idea that entertaining movies - rather than those artsy-fartsy ones from France, Germany and Russia - are ...
The National Board Of Review, that shadowy cabal of Lord-knows-who that's always the first to weigh in on the year's best films has named Slumdog Millionaire its best movie of the year. It is, as ...
If the style of Kane is important, there’s no reason the style of Slumdog Millionaire should be any less so. Now, how—or even whether—you respond to its style is another matter altogether, but you ...
A Mumbai teenager reflects on his life after being accused of cheating on the Indian version of "Who Wants to be a Millionaire?" Twovies. Some years are stronger than others. Gerard Butler stars in ...