Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix Critic Reviews
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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.Read the full review
It will hook you good and keep you riveted.Read the full review
For those who have gotten their Harry Potter fix entirely through the cinematic incarnation, the script is lucid and fast-moving.Read the full review
The flourishes don't answer the question most on Potterites' minds -- who lives, who dies? -- but they briefly stupefy.Read the full review
Screenwriter Michael Goldenberg and director David Yates have transformed J.K. Rowling's garrulous storytelling into something leaner, moodier and more compelling, that ticks with metronomic purpose as the story flits between psychological darkness and cartoonish slapstick.Read the full review
Darker, leaner, less expansive , and meaner, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix is all business, and it casts a spell utterly unlike the first four films.Read the full review
A sleek, swift and exciting adaptation of J. K. Rowling’s longest novel to date.Read the full review
The movie is brisk and lively, if not exactly action-packed.Read the full review
Considerably grimmer and grittier than the previous pictures.Read the full review
Save for the thrilling opening sequence, there's not much to remember about the film beyond Staunton (Vera Drake), who masks her bottomless malevolence behind a pasted-on patrician smile.Read the full review
