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.)
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07/12/07
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007)
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Reviews Counted:230
Fresh:177
Rotten:53
Average Rating:6.8/10
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:12-07-2007
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
Reviews for Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
101 - 120 (sorted by date; UK critics are listed first)
Yates, especially given the sinister subject matter on hand, does a rather workmanlike job of traffic-managing the action. But some of the magic effects are indeed magical.
07/12/07
This 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
boils down Rowling's brick-thick novel into a fat-free, fleet-footed adventure... although Rowling's readers may be disappointed to find that much of the story's color has been sacrificed in the name of economy...
07/12/07
Engaging and beautiful.
07/12/07
Phoenix reminds us that effects-laden blockbusters can also have heart and soul.
07/12/07
The first 2007 mega-budget summer blockbuster that's actually worth a damn... four sequels into this saga, it finally feels like we're watching a bona fide, honest to God movie.
07/11/07
It's about No Child Left Behind. The government tries to sanitize the classes and standardize tests so that the kids won't actually learn anything threatening.
07/11/07
Radcliffe appears game enough to continue in the iconic role he has grown up with. So do Watson and Grint, although the exuberant let's-put-on-a-show sparkle of youth has, sadly, drained from all three.
07/11/07
Cinema often requires the sacrifice of facts for feelings, a reality that leaves this barely satisfactory affair clinging to its literary predecessor for life support.
07/11/07
It's a cut-rate Harry Potter, but not necessarily a bad one.
07/11/07
A dark, grim, serious film, with little of the joy or whimsy that animated the first four movies.
07/11/07
A severely streamlined, stiff series low. Aside from Imelda Staunton's spirited performance and Daniel Radcliffe's typically impressive stoicism, this adaptation reduces J.K. Rowling's zesty prose to lumpy, gray porridge.
07/11/07
Snape says it all right in the book: 'You have no subtlety, Potter.'
07/11/07
Though critics often denigrate today's overuse of special effects, more of those are needed as the human interactions are a crashing bore.
07/11/07
Spectacular. Harry Potter is a true movie phenomenon. This one seals the deal. If you weren't hooked before, you will be now.
07/11/07
The story falls flat.
07/11/07
Acaba soando mais como preparativo para os acontecimentos dos dois últimos capítulos de uma série que, de um modo ou de outro, ainda não trouxe motivos reais para desapontamentos.
07/11/07
Not only the darkest, most sinister (it comes very near to qualifying as a horror picture) and most mature of the films, it's the most tightly structured.
07/11/07
[Its] magic still remains -- deep and abiding, with enough strength to take us through another serviceable Harry Potter adventure.
07/11/07
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