Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire Reviews
McClatchy-Tribune News Service
Wait a minute. Sequels aren't supposed to get better.
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| Original Score: 3.5/4
Film4
A huge cast, plenty of special effects and Harry gets a battering -- pretty much as you'd expect.
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| Original Score: 3.5/5
Top CriticA marked disappointment after Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, this fourth installment in the franchise is a 157-minute holding pattern.
MovieWeb
The Goblet of Fire is a more mature story and its young stars prove they have the acting skills to grow with their characters.
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| Original Score: 3.5/5
ComingSoon.net
Easily the best Harry Potter film so far.
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| Original Score: 8/10
IGN DVD
The story is engrossing, but Mike Newell's adaption is a little too dull and by-the-numbers following Alfonso Cuaron's visual tour-de-force.
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| Original Score: 7/10
CinePassion
Chapter four in the boy-wizard franchise, and still no good scenes, interesting characters, or true imagination
rec.arts.movies.reviews
Followers of the series will find a more mature Harry and a more mature style, less sugary but not actually drier than the previous films.
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| Original Score: +2 out of -4..+4
Screendaily
A solid but mostly uninspired melding of the adventure and fright that have been the benchmarks of the franchise.
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| Original Score: 3/4
Dark Horizons
Like a fine wine, Harry Potter continues to improve with age as each succeeding film version of Rowling's books seemingly surpasses the last.
Big Picture Big Sound
Finally we're seeing Harry (the character and the series) grow up.
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| Original Score: 3.5/4
Film Journal International
The action in Goblet of Fire is more exciting and faster-paced than in previous Potter films, and visually, it is by far the most splendid.
Christianity Today
This new story starts off as just another adventure, more or less, but by the end, the situation faced by its protagonists has become much darker, and much more dire.
| Original Score: 3/4
Sight and Sound
Never feels anything other than a single thread of a larger narrative.
Movies for the Masses
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| Original Score: 4/5
Cinema Writer
The grim tone feels overwrought but, in [Mike] Newell's hands, and in those of his cast and screenwriter's, the movie remains dramatically solid
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| Original Score: 3/4
Empire Magazine
It's refreshing that Potter 4 aspires to be a paranoid thriller rather than yet another detective mystery. House points, too, for the movie's terrific effects and considerable charm.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Film Threat
The series is now being treated as it should be, with the right mix of magic, danger, and drama, without watering anything down just so a younger audience can be snagged.
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| Original Score: 5/5
Q Network Film Desk
Anything but a disappointment. Even if it doesn't achieve the lyrical enchantment of Prisoner of Azkaban, it nonetheless makes good on Rowling's darker turn in the series.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Movie Metropolis
For me, the best entry in the series--the sweetest, the most exciting, the most moving, and the most touching.
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| Original Score: 9/10
