More suspense than the other films in the series ... and an improvement upon the book from which it was adapted.
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07/10/07
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
141 - 160 (sorted by date; UK critics are listed first)
Occupies the middle ground among the Potter movies, not as good as the third and fourth but better than the first and second.
07/10/07
British television director David Yates and screenwriter Michael Goldenberg have made a surprisingly coherent film from Rowling's sprawling, 800 pages-plus novel. But at times it's still a tough slog.
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Another quality effort even if it’s missing a little hocus pocus.
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Staunton magnificently personifies the banality of evil as Umbridge, all steely resolve and poisonous sugar.
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The movie works the way a Harry Potter movie ought to. It's not perfect -- a few ends remain loose, a few characters get shafted -- but it's very good.
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Dark as pitch: unsettling, unsettled, unresolved, and utterly remarkable.
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David Yates and screenwriter Michael Goldenberg have successfully pared the unwieldy book down into something that works well enough that this film places third in my personal best of Potter movies list.
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This is a gangly, confusing sprawl, and yet there are enough patches of beauty scattered throughout that it's impossible to reject it wholesale.
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It is dark, it is more grown up, and its approaching end can be felt.
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Easily the darkest of a series that has grown increasingly dim, Phoenix rises to the occasion, even if it doesn't fly quite as high as the previous two installments.
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Just as Harry has grown into a leader of his Hogwarts classmates, Radcliffe has become the man who drives this series.
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It seems that love and friendship are qualities worth rattling your wand over. En route, we can once more ooh-and-aah at the franchise's impressive array of acting talent.
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There's still enough suspense built into the saga to keep us watching, but after five installments, this dazzling box office wizard is slowly running out of tricks.
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Top CriticAnyone expecting a rebirth of the Harry Potter film franchise in its fifth installment will find a disappointing dearth of cinematic magic.
07/10/07
It feels like Charlie Brown getting ready to kick the football that Lucy's holding. He's sure she's going to pull it away once again, but Charlie gives it another try anyway, because it's there, and who knows, maybe this time will be different.
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It's inspiring to see Harry and his friends come into their own, organizing impromptu self-defense courses when their official curriculum is lacking, and pointedly crushing when they realize just how hard it is to fight city hall.
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Order Of The Phoenix feels a little too complacent at times, though it has moments of visual wit, and it doesn't soft-pedal the dark mood that has eclipsed the series.
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Weaves the beginning of the series' backend into maybe the best of the series to date leaving us in a state of anticipatory bliss of how it will all end.
07/10/07
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix is the work of a confident storyteller making an assured movie debut.
07/10/07
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