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Critics Reviews: 7 out of 10
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Boston Globe
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.
Ty Burr
Chicago Sun-Times
"Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix" still has much of the enchantment of the earlier films, but Harry no longer has as much joy. His face is lacking the gosh-wow-this-is-really-neat grin. He has internalized the secrets and delights of the world of wizards, and is now instinctively using them to save his life.
Richard Roeper
Reelviews
With its fifth cinematic outing, the Harry Potter film series has ascended to another level. In addition to providing a self-contained, well-paced adventure, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix also begins to coalesce the epic ether that has been building over the past four films.
James Berardinelli
USA Today
Who would have guessed that a giggly 50-ish lady in a fuzzy pink suit could upstage all the witches, wizards and dark villains that populate the world of Harry Potter?
But such is the case in the enchantingly rendered Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, which features the versatile British actress Imelda Staunton as the smug, order-loving Dolores Umbridge.
Claudia Puig
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