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100A family film of limitless imagination and surprising joy.
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100Utterly enchanting.
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91This sincere, delicate, and intrinsically religious comedy may also become that most unexpected of blessings - Danny Boyle's first family classic.
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90It's vibrant and verdant and heartbreakingly inviting, begging you to escape into a lovely tale in which children, through a simple act of faith, find their own heaven on earth.
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90The near-miracle worked by Mr. Boyle, whose exuberant style brings several saints to scruffy life, is a movie that's joyously funny and hugely inventive -- occasionally to the point of preciousness -- yet true to the spirit of the saintly little kid at its center.
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88One of the more delightful and satisfying family movies.
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88Leaves you feeling rich - and richly satisfied.
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83The film is thriller, comedy and rite-of-passage story, but Boyle never loses sight of what's at its core.
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80Millions is that rarest of creatures: a family film - one of surprising warmth – that won't have adults reaching for an airsick bag.
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80Millions, like all kid-powered movies, stands or falls in the first place on the performances of its child actors, and Alex Etel and Lewis McGibbon both delight.
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80Millions is an intelligent children’s film that may prove to be a guilty pleasure for adults.
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80Despite being a pure fantasy that relishes not making literal sense, Millions retains a conviction about what it's doing that makes us believe and enjoy.
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80A heartfelt, emotionally delicate children's movie about life and death and all the parts in between.
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80Witty, sweet and charming but never sappy, the movie joins the heady company of such extraordinary child-centered movies as "The 400 Blows," "My Life as a Dog" and "Au Revoir Les Enfants."
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80The movie, though quite funny in parts, turns organically dark, and it refuses to paint a picture of a cotton-candy world. It prefers the real one.
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80The most gleeful movie about a single-minded kid since "A Christmas Story."
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78It's childhood done just right: part cotton candy angels, part gurning adult frighteners, and all wide-eyed kidhood bravado.
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75You never know what to expect from Boyle, and that goes triple in this offbeat comedy drama. It's a movie about family that family viewers will find good, quirky fun.
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75This is a family movie in the best sense; it plays to children without talking down and to their parents without pandering. Mostly, it's just good fun.
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75You really don't need to borrow someone else's kids to ponder and enjoy what Millions has to offer.
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75It's an uplifting motion picture that will bring smiles to faces, and Boyle's trademark irreverence keeps the feel-good experience from becoming too saccharine.
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70This cheeky fable rests on the slender shoulders of Etel and McGibbon, and the lovely, natural performances Boyle elicits from them are the film's real miracle.
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70A sweet little picture with a sense of humor as well as a mission. If money can't buy you love, at least it can buy you 90 minutes of warmth.
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70A little broad comedy keeps things perky, but the kids' excellent, restrained acting and the low-key script by "The Claim" screenwriter Frank Cottrell Boyce hold the whole sprawling project together, from weepy revelations to silly fantasy-saint sequences.
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70Maintains a bankable charm and innocence even when overdrawn on the special effects side.
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Give Boyce and Boyle credit for daring to be strange, but this enchilada is so overstuffed, it's falling apart.
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63Mostly avoids being cloying but flirts with being precious. Yet Boyle is enough of a stylist to make it all passable. It's one of those films for which fans and detractors can see the others' viewpoint.
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63The film is small-scale, cleverly crafted and feels like a more expensive version of the sort of "dramedy" they produce by the truckload at the BBC.
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63Starts as sweetly impossible and ends as impossibly sweet.
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60By avoiding sentimentality, Millions emerges as a simple tale told with sympathy for a child's point of view.
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50And the movie, likable for short stretches, ends up seeming worn and frayed, like Christmas decorations left hanging until spring.
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50Danny Boyle's Millions is not what we'd expect from the "Trainspotting" and "28 Days Later" director. It's essentially a gentle, kid's-eye parable.
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50We're supposed to be overwhelmed by magic, but what we see is fancy film technique and a lot of strained whimsy.
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HarperM8Touching fantasy with a flashy, surrealistic visual style. The film has humor, pathos, and moments of menace.
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