100
New York Daily News
It's action-packed, darker, more epic and thankfully schmaltz-free. And it's the best "Harry Potter" film yet.
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
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- United Kingdom,
- United States
- 2007
- · 138m
Director
David Yates
Cast
Daniel Radcliffe,
Rupert Grint,
Emma Watson,
Michael Gambon,
Ralph Fiennes,
Tom Felton
Genre
Adventure,
Fantasy,
Mystery
Returning for his fifth year of study at Hogwarts, Harry is stunned to find that his warnings about the return of Lord Voldemort have been ignored. Left with no choice, Harry takes matters into his own hands, training a small group of students–dubbed Dumbledore's Army–to defend themselves against both the dark arts and Hogwarts' corrupt new Defense Against the Dark Arts professor.
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What are critics saying?
100
New York Magazine (Vulture) by David Edelstein
For all its portentousness, this is the best Harry Potter picture yet. In some ways, it improves on J.K. Rowling’s novel, which is punishingly protracted and builds to a climactic wand-off better seen than read.
100
Village Voice by Scott Foundas
In narrative terms, not that much happens, but as for Harry's emotional journey--well, that's nearly epic.
100
New York Daily News by Colin Bertram
It's action-packed, darker, more epic and thankfully schmaltz-free. And it's the best "Harry Potter" film yet.
90
Time by Richard Corliss
Not just a ripping yarn but a powerful, poignant coming-of-age story.
88
Rolling Stone by Peter Travers
It will hook you good and keep you riveted.
88
USA Today by Claudia Puig
The special effects continue to be masterful, but villains are given a new twist, and Order of the Phoenix is all the more fun because of it.
88
ReelViews by James Berardinelli
For those who have gotten their Harry Potter fix entirely through the cinematic incarnation, the script is lucid and fast-moving.
83
Seattle Post-Intelligencer by William Arnold
Yet, as good as it is in so many ways, there's no getting around the fact that this briefest Harry and first directed by an unknown filmmaker (David Yates) is the least substantial of the bunch.
83
Entertainment Weekly by Lisa Schwarzbaum
The flourishes don't answer the question most on Potterites' minds -- who lives, who dies? -- but they briefly stupefy.
83
Baltimore Sun by Michael Sragow
The whole film is about innocence and experience, and if it isn't a Blakean song, it is a sturdy and vibrant piece of prose.
80
Empire
It won't win new fans, but as Potter movies go, this is the most filmic of the lot, suspenseful and action-packed.
70
Variety by Todd McCarthy
Considerably grimmer and grittier than the previous pictures.
60
The Hollywood Reporter by Kirk Honeycutt
"Phoenix" might go down as the problematic film, full of plot but little fun.
50
San Francisco Chronicle by Mick LaSalle
Taken as a motion picture, the new "Harry" comes up short. But taken as a visual aid to the experience of reading a book, the new "Harry" does its job.
50
Newsweek by David Ansen
The storytelling seems occasionally disjointed, but more important, for all the special-effects wizardry, that touch of film magic never surfaces.
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