For all its gloominess, Order of the Phoenix is, in several ways, the best Potter picture yet.
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07/09/07
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.
Runtime: 2 hrs 19 mins
Genre: Science-Fiction/Fantasy
US Box Office: $291,980,108
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
201 - 220 (sorted by date; Australian critics are listed first)
J.K. Rowling has a spirit of plenty. On page and screen, her vision is a deliciously human (not just mythic) triumph of fancy, a spreading of soulful wings to lift us high.
07/09/07
For the most part this adaptation, scripted by Michael Goldenberg and directed by David Yates, a British television veteran, is a marvel of compression that moves along at a brisk pace without ever feeling rushed.
07/09/07
Suspenseful and dark, this new Harry Potter is a stylish transition of the franchise on nearly every level: its mood, its plot, and most dangerously, its audience.
07/09/07
The movie is at times brilliant with a powerhouse performance by Imelda Staunton.
07/09/07
It feels for all the world like what it is: a table-setting for the last two Potter novels-into-films, pages turning into scenes that take us toward graduation or some other decisive conclusion.
07/09/07
If you've read all the books and seen all the movies up to this point, you may not mind the extra weight. But a newcomer to the Potter chronicles making his or her acquaintance with this film may be forgiven for wondering where the magic is.
07/09/07
With its fifth cinematic outing, the Harry Potter film series has ascended to another level.
07/09/07
Thinned down from the series' longest book, Phoenix can't shake an episodic feeling that makes it difficult to develop momentum.
07/09/07
Top CriticThe most striking aspect of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix is its contrast between the hormonally and supernaturally tormented teenager at its center and the modestly well-made and easygoing picture unfolding all around him.
07/09/07
Familiarity is not quite breeding contempt for Harry and his friends and enemies. But it's starting to breed indifference.
07/09/07
After the exceptional quality of the last two installments,...a letdown. This chapter of the story feels like it's just biding time.
07/09/07
The movie's all set-up and no payoff, merely a placeholder until the series' next cash cow moos into theaters.
07/09/07
Characters are given less room than usual to grow and shine, and despite its relatively short running time, the film occasionally goes through the motions of telling a story rather than actually doing so.
07/09/07
The script just doesn't work unless you've got a Cliff's Notes version of the novels there with you.
07/09/07
'Voldemort is on the move!' said Sirius. 'You mean He Whose Name Must Not Be Spoken is relocating from the Location He Must Not Originate From to the Place Which Must Not Be His Destination!' said Harry.
07/09/07
It won’t win new fans, but as Potter movies go, this is the most filmic of the lot, suspenseful and action-packed.
07/08/07
Top CriticIt's action-packed, darker, more epic and thankfully schmaltz-free. And it's the best Harry Potter film yet.
07/08/07
The storytelling seems occasionally disjointed, but...for all the special-effects wizardry, that touch of film magic never surfaces. There's fireworks and action and much swooshing about, but this interim installment seems stuck in one nightmarish gear.
07/08/07
Did I mention that, for all its portentousness, this is the best Harry Potter picture yet? In some ways, it improves on J. K. Rowling’s novel, which is punishingly protracted and builds to a climactic wand-off better seen than read.
07/07/07
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