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Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

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United Kingdom, United States · 2007
Rated PG-13 · 2h 18m
Director David Yates
Starring Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson, Michael Gambon
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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80

Empire by

It won't win new fans, but as Potter movies go, this is the most filmic of the lot, suspenseful and action-packed.

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.

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.

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.

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