Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix Critic Reviews
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Based upon 15 Critic Reviews- Highest Rated
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A sleek, swift and exciting adaptation of J. K. Rowling’s longest novel to date.Read the full review
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
The movie is brisk and lively, if not exactly action-packed.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
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
Director David Yates, who is new to the Potter franchise, moves the story along briskly, at the expense of texture and nuance.Read the full review
It finally can't transcend the limitations inherent in being no more than a way station in an epic journey, a journey whose cinematic conclusion is several years away.Read the full review
"Phoenix" might go down as the problematic film, full of plot but little fun.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
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.Read the full review
