Archive for January, 2009
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Wednesday, January 14th, 2009
Slumdog Millionaire
Slumdog Millionaire works for reasons that it shouldn’t; what works in it and what’s wrong with it seem inseparable. For the first two-thirds of the movie, one almost doesn’t expect that it will work at all, but the director, Danny Boyle, and the screenwriter, Simon Beaufoy (who adapted Vikas Swarup’s novel Q&A), pull us through. [...]