Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix Reviews

An emotional and involving installment in this hit or miss series

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4

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.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5

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

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5

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.

Full Review | Original Score: 7/10

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

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5

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

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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.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4

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.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5

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.

Full Review | Original Score: 7/10

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.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5

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.

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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.

Full Review | Original Score: 6/10

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

Full Review | Original Score: 6/10

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

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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.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.0/4.0

...not much of a stand-alone picture but, rather, a transition from one major story strand to the next.

Full Review | Original Score: 6/10

Possibly more Dirty Harry than the usual beloved kid bestseller bespectacled wonder wizard, as a dark side kicks in and Harry's soul is on the line.

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Exciting fifth movie finds Harry angry, brooding.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5

With a script heavy on exposition almost completely devoid of sustained action sequences, Harry's latest is long on spiel and short on spells.

Full Review | Original Score: C+

O kinimatografika agnostos David Yates, deyteros Bretanos skinothetis tis seiras kai me kainoyrio senariografo, bgainei san o pio diabasmenos sta biblia tis Rowling, katafernontas na ksehorisei me akribeia ta nimata ap' ta selidotoybla tis pubobias syggra

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5