Brought me straight back to one of the most enduring of childhood feelings: boredom.
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Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007)
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Reviews Counted:39
Fresh:27
Rotten:12
Average Rating:6.7/10
Consensus: It's not easy to take the longest Harry Potter book and streamline it into the shortest HP movie, but director David Yates does a bang up job of it, creating an Order of the Phoenix that's entertaining and action-packed.
Theatrical Release:Jul 11, 2007 Wide
Box Office: $291,980,108
Synopsis: In the silver-screen adaptation of J.K. Rowling's HARRY POTTER AND THE ORDER OF THE PHOENIX, the fifth chapter in the beloved book series, everyone's favorite wizard-in-training (Daniel Radcliffe)... [More]
Starring: Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson, Robbie Coltrane
Director: David Yates
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Reviews for Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Top CriticWe do get terrific work from the all-star British cast, and the special effects are as seamless as ever.
07/16/07
Top CriticDirector David Yates, who is new to the Potter franchise, moves the story along briskly, at the expense of texture and nuance.
07/13/07
Top CriticTruth be told, it's the lad's many onscreen allies that prove the film franchise's richest draws. (Thank you, Alan Rickman, for your wonderfully embittered turn as Severus Snape.)
07/12/07
Top CriticThis is the bleakest Potter installment to date, and under David Yates's choppy direction, Maggie Smith, Emma Thompson, Brendan Gleeson, and David Thewlis have little more than walk-ons.
07/12/07
Top CriticFor all the action -- and there's plenty of it, even if it's only a portion of what was crammed into Rowling's 870 pages -- the most important stuff is what takes place in Harry's head.
07/10/07
Top CriticThis is a gangly, confusing sprawl, and yet there are enough patches of beauty scattered throughout that it's impossible to reject it wholesale.
07/10/07
Top CriticIt seems that love and friendship are qualities worth rattling your wand over. En route, we can once more ooh-and-aah at the franchise's impressive array of acting talent.
07/10/07
Top CriticThere's still enough suspense built into the saga to keep us watching, but after five installments, this dazzling box office wizard is slowly running out of tricks.
07/10/07
Top CriticWhatever happened to the delight and, if you'll excuse the term, the magic in the Harry Potter series?
07/10/07
Top CriticTo their credit, new director David Yates and new screenwriter Michael Goldenberg never lose the heart of the tale. Even in the midst of an incredibly thrilling magical battle of whippeting wands, flashing light and furor, they focus on Harry's inner war.
07/10/07
Top Critic[The filmmakers] have transformed J.K. Rowling's garrulous storytelling into something leaner, moodier and more compelling, that ticks with metronomic purpose as the story flits between psychological darkness and cartoonish slapstick.
07/10/07
Top CriticYates lacks a steady grip on the shape and rhythm of the film.
07/10/07
Top CriticIt all feels a little safe. The movie's full of spells, all right. But where's the magic?
07/10/07
Top CriticA fruitcake-of-a-movie dense with exposition and woefully short on payoff.
07/10/07
Top CriticWhile the film doesn't have the imaginative magic of The Prisoner of Azkaban or the chummy warmth of The Goblet of Fire, it's a serviceable bridge to the story's final chapters.
07/10/07
Top CriticYates is wise not to stuff too many characters into this yarn, and plays everybody well, if sparingly. He can't offer a sense of completion -- more movies to come, you know -- but he offers a thoroughly enjoyable and interesting transition.
07/10/07
Top CriticPartly due to its intensity, Order of the Phoenix is better than the first four in the series. Also credit a much tighter, meatier script and better acting.
07/10/07
Top CriticThere is a lot of story here, complex and compelling.
07/10/07
Top CriticA movie much more in the mode of a conventional thriller than previous Potter outings.
07/10/07
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