Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007)

All Critics (238) | Top Critics (45) | Fresh (194) | Rotten (53) | DVD (29)

Performances are more mature, the soundtrack (by Nicholas Hooper) less grandiose, and Yates executes some thrilling set-pieces.

November 17, 2011 Full Review

Wally Hammond

Time Out

Top Critic

Brought me straight back to one of the most enduring of childhood feelings: boredom.

August 5, 2007 Full Review | Comments (11)

Kyle Smith

New York Post

Top Critic

Installment five boosts his [Harry's] rebellion to enjoyable levels of British pique.

July 19, 2007 Full Review

Joshua Rothkopf

Time Out New York

Top Critic

We do get terrific work from the all-star British cast, and the special effects are as seamless as ever.

July 16, 2007 | Comments (3)

Richard Roeper

Ebert & Roeper

Top Critic

Director David Yates, who is new to the Potter franchise, moves the story along briskly, at the expense of texture and nuance.

July 13, 2007 Full Review

Joanne Kaufman

Wall Street Journal

Top Critic

Truth 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.)

July 12, 2007 Full Review

Lisa Kennedy

Denver Post

Top Critic

An emotional and involving installment in this hit or miss series

January 13, 2013 Full Review

Roger Moore

McClatchy-Tribune News Service

Yates leaps into big-budget cinema like a kid in a candy store, packing in nearly every compelling image from the 870-page source material.

December 7, 2012 Full Review

Steve Heisler

Time Out Chicago

Harry's got quite a lot on his plate this time around and that's both the strength and weakness of Order of the Phoenix.

March 22, 2011 Full Review

Joshua Starnes

ComingSoon.net

Además de la afortunada dirección, el que este episodio tuviera un buen resultado, era de esperarse. Con un presupuesto elevado, la mayor parte del elenco repitiendo y el talento histriónico de Emma Thompson, Alan Rickman, Ralph Fiennes, Helena Bonham Ca

March 11, 2010 Full Review | Comments (2)

Luis Martinez

Cinenganos

The director, Peter Yates, pastes on the chiaroscuro, but under it is the summer-camp flatness that's always been the franchise's trademark

August 27, 2009 Full Review | Comments (4)

Fernando F. Croce

CinePassion

The franchise staff (ostensibly led by Brit-TV director David Yates) dive right in, smooshing Rowling's biggest book into the shortest film and treating the rich subtext -- as well as much of the text -- as dispensable.

April 23, 2009 Full Review

Michael Atkinson

Boston Phoenix

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix is a gripping, evocative movie. David Yates has two great strengths to apply to the project. He is cinematically adept, and character is a priority for him.

February 2, 2009 Full Review | Comment (1)

Tony Macklin

Fayetteville Free Weekly

Whether you will enjoy Order of the Phoenix relies, I suspect, largely on whether or not you are a Harry Potter fan to begin with.

August 23, 2008 Full Review

Heather Huntington

ReelzChannel.com

The Harry Potter movies that are based on J.K. Rowling's novels have gotten progressively darker with each entry, and Order of the Phoenix may quite possibly be the darkest one yet.

July 23, 2008 Full Review | Comment (1)

Adam Tobias

Watertown Daily Times

With the supremely evil Valdemort having put in an appearance at the end of the previous film, you might think it would be time to circle the wagons and start planning some defensive strategies ... but you would be wrong.

July 11, 2008 Full Review | Comments (7)

Steve Biodrowski

ESplatter

Aside from the flying thestrals and a giant, there really isn't the same level of creatures or magic in this installment.

April 8, 2008 Full Review

James Plath

HollywoodinHiDef.com

There's a nagging feeling of dad trying to rush the family on a vacation. If you hurry this much, you're bound to miss something and that keeps the Potter films away from greatness.

March 3, 2008 Full Review | Comment (1)

Jeff Bayer

The Scorecard Review

Though it may be blasphemous to say so, this is one movie that is superior to the book.

February 28, 2008 Full Review | Comments (3)

Brandon Fibbs

Colorado Springs Gazette

The longest and weakest of the Potter novels becomes one of the better film adaptations of the series.

January 15, 2008 Full Review

Garth Franklin

Dark Horizons

Only true fans of the books will notice many of these shortcomings, but I must hope that this was a fluke or misstep, not a sign of things to come.

January 10, 2008 Full Review | Comment (1)

Kevin A. Ranson

MovieCrypt.com

• 1. Albus Dumbledore: It's Dumbledore's Army, not Potter's.
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• 1. Hermione Granger: We're not learning how to use magic, we're not passing our O.W.L.s
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• 1. Lucius Malfoy: We can settle this If we just all calm down.
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• 1. Neville Longbottom: Bellatrix Lestrange.
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• 1. Severus Snape: You're just like you're father: lazy, arrogant.
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• 1. James Potter: Come on Padfoot.
  2. Harry Potter: Dad?
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