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  Movie Review for Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Movie Review for
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix



Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
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180 Reviews total.

Release date: 7/11/2007
Run length: 129 mins.
Categories: Romance , Action/Adventure , Science Fiction/Fantasy , Kids/Family , Sequel , Adaptation

Summary: As his fifth year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry approaches, 15-year-old Harry Potter is in full-blown adolescence, complete with regular outbursts of rage, a nearly debilitating crush, and the blooming of a powerful sense of rebellion. It's been yet another infuriating and boring summer with the despicable Dursleys, this time with minimal contact from our hero's non-Muggle friends from school. Harry is feeling especially edgy at the lack of news from the magic world, wondering when the freshly revived evil Lord Voldemort will strike. Returning to Hogwarts will be a relief--or will it?

                         Reviews of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

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Kevin Carr of 7M Pictures (7/0)
            this isn't as much a full chapter in the seven-part series, but rather the set-up for the last tw...

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Kam Williams of AALBC.com (7/0)
            Basically, it's the Little Rascals to the rescue in a flick dressed up as a mystical fable replet...

By
Rebecca Murray of About.com (7/0)
            Although it's a little scattered and some plot points go by so quickly they may not be caught by ...

By
John Wirt of Advocate (Baton Rouge, LA) (7/0)
            Efficiently trimmed from a nearly 900-page novel, the latest Harry Potter film adaptation is an e...

By
Mike McGranaghan of Aisle Seat (7/0)
            While I definitely like the movie, I don't think Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

By
Brian Webster of Apollo Guide (7/0)
            Perhaps the most wonderful thing about the Harry Potter phenomenon has been watching every aspect...

                         Reviews of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
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Bob Longino of Atlanta Journal-Constitution (7/0)
            The third (or maybe even second) best Potter movie.

By
Marc Savlov of Austin Chronicle (7/0)
            The end may be in sight by now, but we're still not sure if it's a light at the end of this parti...

By
Michael Sragow of Baltimore Sun (7/0)
            Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix is the work of a confident storyteller making an assure...

By
Paul Arendt of BBC (7/0)
            Order of the Phoenix is entertaining enough, but it feels like a stopgap, a stepping stone to lat...

By
Ty Burr of Boston Globe (7/0)
            Darker, leaner, less expansive , and meaner...

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Chad Greene of Boxoffice Magazine (7/0)
            Anyone expecting a rebirth of the Harry Potter film franchise in its fifth installment will find ...

                         Reviews of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
By
Fred Topel of Can Magazine (7/0)
            It's about No Child Left Behind. The government tries to sanitize the classes and standardize tes...

By
Helene A Aasen of Channel 4 Film (7/0)
            The Order Of The Phoenix is formulaic and lacking in depth, and does not make the most of the int...

By
Lawrence Toppman of Charlotte Observer (7/0)
            Given a choice between this and the navel-gazing of the novel, I'll take the short ride on a fast...

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Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times (7/0)
            ...there is no denying that Order of the Phoenix is a well-crafted entry in the Potter se...

By
Michael Phillips of Chicago Tribune (7/0)
            It's clear by now that Radcliffe, Watson and Grint were terrific casting choices, though this tim...

By
Peter Rainer of Christian Science Monitor (7/0)
            Yates, especially given the sinister subject matter on hand, does a rather workmanlike job of tra...

                         Reviews of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
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Peter T. Chattaway of Christianity Today (7/0)
            A dark, grim, serious film, with little of the joy or whimsy that animated the first four movies.

By
Devin Faraci of CHUD (7/0)
            David Yates and screenwriter Michael Goldenberg have successfully pared the unwieldy book down in...

By
Pablo Villaca of Cinema em Cena (7/0)
            Acaba soando mais como preparativo para os acontecimentos dos dois últimos capítulos de uma série...

By
Jules Brenner of Cinema Signals (7/0)
            It is dark, it is more grown up, and its approaching end can be felt.

By
Joshua Tyler of CinemaBlend.com (7/0)
            The script just doesn't work unless you've got a Cliff's Notes version of the novels there with y...

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Joshua Tyler of CinemaBlend.com (8/0)
            The films have maintained a consistent level of quality, and that's more than most other long-run...

                         Reviews of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
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David Keyes of Cinemaphile.org (7/0)
            Complex, meditative & inspired in the way it allows tug-of-war fantasy ideals to be combined with...

By
Jette Kernion of Cinematical (7/0)
            More suspense than the other films in the series ... and an improvement upon the book from which ...

By
Kim Voynar of Cinematical (7/0)
            Though it feels a bit understated from time to time, "Harry Potter and Order of the Phoenix" is a...

By
Mark Palermo of Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia) (7/0)
            It's accomplished, but par for the course: A bloated, basically watchable light show.

By
Cole Smithey of ColeSmithey.com (7/0)
            Although marred by some inept editing by Mark Day, The Order of the Phoenix is the first of the s...

By
Jeffrey M. Anderson of Combustible Celluloid (7/0)
            It's a cut-rate Harry Potter, but not necessarily a bad one.

                         Reviews of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
By
Edward Douglas of ComingSoon.net (7/0)
            David Yates has taken the Potter challenge head-on, making one of the first Potter movies to grea...

By
Charles Frederick of Daily Telegraph (7/0)
            To dwell on a few weaknesses would be to neglect the obvious point - that Harry Potter is older, ...

By
Sarah Crompton of Daily Telegraph (7/0)
            Characters are given less room than usual to grow and shine, and despite its relatively short run...

By
Steven D. Greydanus of Decent Films Guide (7/0)
            The level of magical eye candy is noticeably lower… [yet] no longer is Harry just The Boy T...

By
Jeff Vice of Deseret News, Salt Lake City (7/0)
            British television director David Yates and screenwriter Michael Goldenberg have made a surprisin...

By
John J. Puccio of DVDTown.com (7/0)
            ...when it's finished, there is the lingering feeling that nothing has really happened.

                         Reviews of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
By
Alex Markerson of E! Online (7/0)
            Savvy in its way, with great performances, but ultimately dry and disappointing.

By
David Foucher of EDGE Boston (7/0)
            Suspenseful and dark, this new Harry Potter is a stylish transition of the franchise on nearly ev...

By
David Cornelius of eFilmCritic.com (7/0)
            Phoenix reminds us that effects-laden blockbusters can also have heart and soul.

By
Erik Childress of eFilmCritic.com (7/0)
            Weaves the beginning of the series' backend into maybe the best of the series to date leaving us ...

By
Peter Sobczynski of eFilmCritic.com (7/0)
            The results may be darker and less family-friendly than previous installments but this ambitious ...

By
Emanuel Levy of EmanuelLevy.Com (7/0)
            Dark, malevolent, and serious, this Harry Potter was created by its new director, scripter and co...

                         Reviews of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
By
Helen OHara of Empire Magazine (7/0)
            It won’t win new fans, but as Potter movies go, this is the most filmic of the lot, suspenseful a...

By
Lisa Schwarzbaum of Entertainment Weekly (7/0)
            For all the action -- and there's plenty of it, even if it's only a portion of what was crammed i...

By
Lisa Schwarzbaum of Entertainment Weekly (7/0)
            ...for all the action -- and there's plenty of it, even if it's only a portion of what was cramme...

By
Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com (7/0)
            The movie works the way a Harry Potter movie ought to. It's not perfect -- a few ends remain loos...

By
Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central (7/0)
            Dark as pitch: unsettling, unsettled, unresolved, and utterly remarkable.

By
Frank Lovece of Film Journal International (7/0)
            The film is nearly nothing but plot, with mostly facile performances and a pacing that could, inc...

                         Reviews of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
By
Pete Vonder Haar of Film Threat (7/0)
            Order of the Phoenix is the shortest Harry Potter movie so far, but feels like a James Michener m...

By
Christopher Null of filmcritic.com (7/0)
            not a bad way to spend an afternoon, but even in a summer of uncommonly weak blockbusters, casual...

By
Kent Turner of Film-Forward.com (7/0)
            Harry Potter fanatics will have a field day pointing out the numerous omissions from the book.

By
Victoria Alexander of FilmsInReview.com (7/0)
            Harry, it’s not anger or Voldemort. It’s testosterone.

By
Brent Simon of FilmStew.com (7/0)
            I have a dirty confession to make. I’m a professional film critic and Harry Potter and the Order ...

By
Stephen Himes of Flak Magazine (7/0)
            Yates' vision for Delores Umbridge is simple: She is to leave no wizard behind.

                         Reviews of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
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MaryAnn Johanson of Flick Filosopher (7/0)
            [T]his may be the best straight-up horror movie of the year -- I was riveted by the sinister soph...

By
Rob Vaux of Flipside Movie Emporium (7/0)
            [Its] magic still remains -- deep and abiding, with enough strength to take us through another se...

By
Donald Munro of Fresno Bee (7/0)
            This fifth movie is where fans who understand the intrinsic darkness of the series will stand up ...

By
Jeffrey Lyles of Gazette (MD) (7/0)
            another quality effort even if it’s missing a little hocus pocus.

By
Michael W. Phillips, Jr. of Goatdog's Movies (7/0)
            Despite its structural flaws, it often delivers the goods.

By
Peter Canavese of Groucho Reviews (7/0)
            The latest workmanlike entry in what must be regarded as an unprecedented film series has plenty ...

                         Reviews of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
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Ross Anthony of Hollywood Report Card (7/0)
            Phoenix has great production value, some nice special effects, some good acting, but overall impa...

By
Kirk Honeycutt of Hollywood Reporter (7/0)
            ...quite possibly the least enjoyable of the lot so far.

By
Kirk Honeycutt of Hollywood Reporter (8/0)
            There is the fact that this [movie] is a watershed of backstory, revelations and plot clarificati...

By
Kit Bowen of Hollywood.com (7/0)
            Less flash, more grit, The Order of the Phoenix is definitely the most introspective of the Harry...

By
Gary Brown of Houston Community Newspapers (7/0)
            One thing is for certain: this is the darkest of the Potter films to date.

By
Emmanuel Itier of iF Magazine (8/0)
            Daniel Radcliffe Interview Part 1. The young actor embraces the challenges his actor career has p...

                         Reviews of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
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Robert Hanks of Independent (7/0)
            If Yates and Goldenberg haven't given the story shape, they have given it pace – something missin...

By
Jim Slotek of Jam! Movies (7/0)
            t's the 'angry Harry' movie, and Radcliffe doesn't waste the opportunity to apply some of the act...

By
Bob Bloom of Journal and Courier (Lafayette, IN) (7/0)
            What is lost is the texture and richness of that permeated J.K. Rowling's fifth entry in the seri...

By
James Sanford of Kalamazoo Gazette (7/0)
            boils down Rowling's brick-thick novel into a fat-free, fleet-footed adventure... although Rowlin...

By
Andrea Chase of Killer Movie Reviews (7/0)
            a first-rate film focused on wonder and character development instead of special effects and catc...

By
Beth Accomando of KPBS.org (7/0)
            Snape even gets some extended scenes... and is no longer a peripheral eccentric presence but rath...

                         Reviews of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
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Scott Foundas of L.A. Weekly (7/0)
            The darkest and most menacing by far of the five [films, [Phoenix] is also the only series entry ...

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Robert Roten of Laramie Movie Scope (7/0)
            Both slow and hurried. A lot of fine actors get little screen time, but it gets the job done.

By
Prairie Miller of Long Island Press (7/0)
            Black magic is whimsically reimagined as truly shocking pink.

By
Andy Klein of Los Angeles CityBeat (7/0)
             ... more satisfying than the last, but still not up to the gold standard of Cuaron's Harry Potte...

By
Kenneth Turan of Los Angeles Times (7/0)
            Thinned down from the series' longest book, Phoenix can't shake an episodic feeling that makes it...

By
Mark Dujsik of Mark Reviews Movies (7/0)
            The story, obviously, is darker and more mature, and the film itself understands more than the ot...

                         Reviews of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
By
Pete Hammond of Maxim (7/0)
            Spectacular. Harry Potter is a true movie phenomenon. This one seals the deal. If you weren't hoo...

By
Matt Pais of Metromix.com (7/0)
            The movie's all set-up and no payoff, merely a placeholder until the series' next cash cow moos i...

By
Rene Rodriguez of Miami Herald (7/0)
            It's the familiar faces that help make Phoenix the best Potter movie yet. Director Yates, who is ...

By
Dave Tianen of Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (7/0)
            This is a darker, more tormented Harry Potter than we have ever seen onscreen.

By
Ken Hanke of Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC) (7/0)
            Not only the darkest, most sinister (it comes very near to qualifying as a horror picture) and mo...

By
Marty Mapes of Movie Habit (7/0)
            Another jumble of special effects, plot shards, celebrity cameos, and sometimes-impressive imager...

                         Reviews of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
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Nell Minow of Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies (7/0)
            Staunton magnificently personifies the banality of evil as Umbridge, all steely resolve and poiso...

By
Mark Ramsey of MovieJuice! (7/0)
            'Voldemort is on the move!' said Sirius. 'You mean He Whose Name Must Not Be Spoken is relocatin...

By
John Hartl of MSNBC (7/0)
            The new Harry turns out to be one of the best entries in the series -- mostly because of a villai...

By
Colin Bertram of New York Daily News (7/0)
            It's action-packed, darker, more epic and thankfully schmaltz-free. And it's the best Harry Potte...

By
David Edelstein of New York Magazine (7/0)
            Did I mention that, for all its portentousness, this is the best Harry Potter picture yet? In som...

By
Lou Lumenick of New York Post (7/0)
            Consider this the cinematic equivalent of the seventh-inning stretch for the long-running series....

                         Reviews of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
By
A. O. Scott of New York Times (7/0)
            ...a sleek, swift and exciting adaptation...

By
Gene Seymour of Newsday (7/0)
            If you've read all the books and seen all the movies up to this point, you may not mind the extra...

By
David Ansen of Newsweek (7/0)
            The storytelling seems occasionally disjointed, but...for all the special-effects wizardry, that ...

By
Jeffrey Westhoff of Northwest Herald (Crystal Lake, IL) (7/0)
            Occupies the middle ground among the Potter movies, not as good as the third and fourth but bette...

By
Frank Swietek of One Guy's Opinion (7/0)
            After the exceptional quality of the last two installments,...a letdown. This chapter of the sto...

By
Scott Tobias of Onion AV Club (7/0)
            Order Of The Phoenix feels a little too complacent at times, though it has moments of visual wit,...

                         Reviews of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
By
Mike Russell of Oregonian (7/0)
            A strangely relaxed and frequently funny installment. To my thinking, it stands right behind Harr...

By
Roger Moore of Orlando Sentinel (7/0)
            It feels for all the world like what it is: a table-setting for the last two Potter novels-into-f...

By
Jason Ferguson of Orlando Weekly (7/0)
            Engaging and beautiful.

By
Katherine Monk of Ottawa Citizen (7/0)
            Thanks to Imelda Staunton's wickedly funny performance as the pink-suited fascist Dolores Umbridg...

By
Fiore Mastracci of Outtakes With Fiore (7/0)
            Only the fourth episode has been worth the price of admission. This one serves as nothing more t...

By
Tyler Hanley of Palo Alto Weekly (7/0)
            Harry's cinematic leap to manhood is not unlike the wizard himself -- spellbinding.

                         Reviews of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
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Gary Thompson of Philadelphia Daily News (7/0)
            The psychological struggle between Harry and his nemesis -- riveting on the page -- is less so on...

By
Carrie Rickey of Philadelphia Inquirer (7/0)
            Yates lacks a steady grip on the shape and rhythm of the film.

By
Sean Burns of Philadelphia Weekly (7/0)
            The first 2007 mega-budget summer blockbuster that's actually worth a damn... four sequels into t...

By
Jon Popick of Planet Sick-Boy (7/0)
            Feels more like a race than a film.

By
Bill Gibron of PopMatters (7/0)
            But for full fledged fantasy that doesn't skimp on the imagination or the intrigue, Harry Potter ...

By
Glenn Kenny of Premiere Magazine (7/0)
            For the most part this adaptation, scripted by Michael Goldenberg and directed by David Yates, a ...

                         Reviews of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
By
Rob Humanick of Projection Booth (7/0)
            Cinema often requires the sacrifice of facts for feelings, a reality that leaves this barely sati...

By
Linda Cook of Quad City Times (Davenport, IA) (7/0)
            The magic is back. And it's darker this time around.

By
Timothy Knight of Reel.com (7/0)
            Stodgy rather than sweeping, with precious little of the wondrous excitement conjured by Alfonso ...

By
Laura Clifford of Reeling Reviews (7/0)
            Director David Yates, the first Brit to helm the series, invests "Order of the Phoenix" with a ve...

By
Betty Jo Tucker of ReelTalk Movie Reviews (7/0)
            Projecting great emotional depth, Daniel Radcliffe shows his growth as an actor in this most seri...

By
Jeffrey Chen of ReelTalk Movie Reviews (7/0)
            Yates doesn't miss a beat -- Harry is still angry and conflicted, and the world around him appear...

                         Reviews of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
By
James Berardinelli of ReelViews (7/0)
            With its fifth cinematic outing, the Harry Potter film series has ascended to another level.

By
Bob Grimm of Reno News and Review (7/0)
            The second best Harry Potter movie.

By
Peter Travers of Rolling Stone (7/0)
            Order of the Phoenix, the best of the series so far, has the laughs, the jitters and the juice to...

By
RT Staff of Rotten Tomatoes (8/0)
            New "Harry Potter" Trailer (and Images!)

By
Scott Weinberg of Rotten Tomatoes (8/0)
            New Posters for "Potter," "Simpsons" & "Golden Compass"

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Scott Weinberg of Rotten Tomatoes (8/0)
            Teaser Bulletin: Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

                         Reviews of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
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Scott Weinberg of Rotten Tomatoes (8/0)
            Toy Fair Goodies: "Pirates," "Star Wars," "Potter," and "Spide...

By
Scott Weinberg of Rotten Tomatoes (8/0)
            First "Harry Potter 5" Pics Hit the 'Net!

By
Scott Weinberg of Rotten Tomatoes (8/0)
            Harry Potter Goes Underground

By
Scott Weinberg of Rotten Tomatoes (8/0)
            Harry Potter and the Early Arrival

By
Carla Meyer of Sacramento Bee (7/0)
            [The filmmakers] keep Order of the Phoenix consistently involving. But it's Radcliffe who truly s...

By
Jim Lane of Sacramento News & Review (7/0)
            Yates paces the film at a pace that makes this, the shortest in the series so far, seem even shor...

                         Reviews of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
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Stephanie Zacharek of Salon.com (7/0)
            This is a gangly, confusing sprawl, and yet there are enough patches of beauty scattered througho...

By
Larry Ratliff of San Antonio Express-News (7/0)
            Radcliffe appears game enough to continue in the iconic role he has grown up with. So do Watson a...

By
Jean Lowerison of San Diego Metropolitan (7/0)
            To a non-Potter fan like me, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix comes across as a standard...

By
David Elliott of San Diego Union-Tribune (7/0)
            J.K. Rowling has a spirit of plenty. On page and screen, her vision is a deliciously human (not j...

By
Mick LaSalle of San Francisco Chronicle (7/0)
            Taken as a motion picture, the new Harry comes up short. But taken as a visual aid to the exp...

By
Eric Melin of Scene-Stealers.com (7/0)
            As the number of pages gets higher, the movies are having a tougher time squeezing them all into ...

                         Reviews of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
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James O'Ehley of Sci-Fi Movie Page (7/0)
            Good, but not great. Fans expecting more than simply 'good' would be disappointed . . .

By
James O'Ehley of Sci-Fi Movie Page (8/0)
            They had better get cracking on those Harry Potter movies before those kids become the oldest tee...

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Gina Carbone of Seacoast Newspapers (NH/Maine) (7/0)
            Snape says it all right in the book: 'You have no subtlety, Potter.'

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Sean McBride of Sean the Movie Guy (7/0)
            I miss the youthful sense of magical discovery found in the earlier book, but love how the story ...

By
William Arnold of Seattle Post-Intelligencer (7/0)
            Addicts of the J. K. Rowling books will eat it up and even non-fans will find it engrossing and e...

By
Moira MacDonald of Seattle Times (7/0)
            Continuing the increasingly darker, more adult trend of the series, the film version is swiftly p...

                         Reviews of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
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Rich Cline of Shadows on the Wall (7/0)
            The story is told with bracing efficiency and clever humour, and features solid acting from the e...

By
Nick Schager of Slant Magazine (7/0)
            Now that Harry has ditched childhood, it seems high time the franchise also dispatches with its i...

By
Dana Stevens of Slate (7/0)
            The whole Hogwarts faculty is so beautifully cast, it reinforces the American impression that in ...

By
Dan Goldwasser of SoundtrackNet (8/0)
            SoundtrackNet's exclusive

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Chauncey Mabe of South Florida Sun-Sentinel (7/0)
            It would be impossible for any director to jam that much story into a 2 hour and 18 minute pictur...

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Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat of Spirituality and Practice (7/0)
            A rousing adventure that includes Harry Potter's first kiss, his encounter with the odiousness of...

                         Reviews of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
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Alison Maloney of Sun Online (7/0)
            The special effects are excellent and the battles thrilling.

By
Angela Baldassarre of Sympatico.ca (7/0)
            Like previous Potter installments, the danger is ever present and palpable, but now Harry is in d...

By
Stuart McGurk of thelondonpaper (7/0)
            It’s magic, Harry, but not as we know it.

By
Dustin Putman of TheMovieBoy.com (8/0)
            An entertaining marvel of invention and storytelling. The series' reigning achievement and one of...

By
Derek Malcolm of This is London (7/0)
            This is a movie that's bound to satisfy most of those who have read the book, and a good many who...

By
Richard Corliss of TIME Magazine (7/0)
            Potter 5 [is] not just a ripping yarn but a powerful, poignant coming-of-age story.

                         Reviews of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
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Maitland McDonagh of TV Guide's Movie Guide (7/0)
            It feels like a placeholder, not because little happens but because so much plot must be served i...

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Gregory Weinkauf of ÜberCiné (7/0)
            Fans of death-obsessed Kid Lit may rejoice.

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Brian Tallerico of UGO (7/0)
            Easily the darkest of a series that has grown increasingly dim, Phoenix rises to the occasion, ev...

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Urban Cinefile Critics of Urban Cinefile (7/0)
            This is my least favourite of the series, despite the fact that the exquisite reality and detaile...

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Enrique Buchichio of Uruguay Total (7/0)
            La adolescencia le sienta bien a Harry Potter y sus compañeros en esta quinta entrega de la serie...

By
Claudia Puig of USA Today (7/0)
            ...enchantingly rendered...

                         Reviews of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
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Todd McCarthy of Variety (8/0)
            The metaphors are all implicit and have a lot to do with just growing up and facing unpleasant re...

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Steve Crum of Video-Reviewmaster.com (7/0)
            The childish fun and wonder of the early Potter movies has turned into high school fear and loath...

By
Matthew Turner of ViewLondon (7/0)
            Worth seeing for Imelda Staunton and the impressive effects' work but it frequently feels rushed ...

By
Willie Waffle of WaffleMovies.com (7/0)
            Get ready to start getting ready for movies 6 and 7, because that is the purpose, but if Harry's ...

By
Desson Thomson of Washington Post (7/0)
            [The filmmakers] have transformed J.K. Rowling's garrulous storytelling into something leaner, mo...

By
Daniel M. Kimmel of Worcester Telegram & Gazette (7/0)
            ...the summer's first sequel that requires no apologies.

                         Reviews of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
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Susan Granger of www.susangranger.com (7/0)
            It's kind of like "Star Wars: Episode I," perhaps the weakest chain in the link but necessary as ...

By
Steven Snyder of Zertinet Movies (7/0)
            For almost the entirety of Order of the Phoenix, we see much the same thing we did in Goblet of F...

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John Beifuss of Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (3/5) Login Required (Login Required)
            The darkest J.K. Rowling adaptation yet, literally as well as thematically: Even a zooming brooms...

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Phil Villarreal of Arizona Daily Star (3/4) No reference
            It feels like Charlie Brown getting ready to kick the football that Lucy's holding. He's sure she...

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David Germain of Associated Press (3/4) No reference
            Familiarity is not quite breeding contempt for Harry and his friends and enemies. But it's starti...

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Bill Clark of FromTheBalcony (6/1) No reference
            In a series this good, there's bound to be a mild low point and it seems certain that Order of th...

                         Reviews of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
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Staci Layne Wilson of Horror.com (3/4) No reference
            The story falls flat.

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Robert W. Butler of Kansas City Star (6/1) No reference
            [The fans] have a lot invested in Harry Potter, and far from running out of steam it seems the se...

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Josh Bell of Las Vegas Weekly (6/1) No reference
            Yates proves himself an able caretaker of the universe that Rowling and the previous directors ha...

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Glenn Whipp of Los Angeles Daily News (6/1) No reference
            Unremittingly bleak, occasionally brilliant.

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David Poland of Movie City News (3/4) No reference
            It's frickin' Harry Potter.

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Eric Kohn of New York Press (3/4) No reference
            Despite the smooth transition of the wondrous Potter mythology from Rowling’s pen to the screen -...

                         Reviews of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
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Stephen Whitty of Newark Star-Ledger (6/1) No reference
            It all feels a little safe. The movie's full of spells, all right. But where's the magic?

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Brian Orndorf of OhmyNews.com (3/4) No reference
            Phoenix manages to top that potential in an immense way, compacting the longest "Potter" book int...

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Sean Means of Salt Lake Tribune (6/1) No reference
            Just as Harry has grown into a leader of his Hogwarts classmates, Radcliffe has become the man wh...

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Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press (6/1) No reference
            There are plenty of clever, magical effects in the film, but Yates zeroes in on the real stuff: t...

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Nick Rogers of State Journal-Register (Springfield, IL) (3/4) No reference
            A severely streamlined, stiff series low. Aside from Imelda Staunton's spirited performance and D...

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Harvey S. Karten of Compuserve (7/1) Not Reachable
            Though critics often denigrate today's overuse of special effects, more of those are needed as th...

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