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By David Cornelius (645) for eFilmCritic.com (5,125) on 19 Jul 2009

We leave the theater with the rush of breathless anticipation mixed with a pinch of worry…

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By Richard Knight (277) for Windy City Times (216) on 19 Jul 2009

Like last year's big summer masterpiece, The Dark Knight, this is one action spectacular that adds an undercurrent of unease to the witches…

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By Jules Brenner (885) for Cinema Signals (847) on 19 Jul 2009

The heavy transitional content does no harm to the popularity of the series, the essentials of which are the enduring emotional attachments…

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By Jeffrey M. Anderson (3,573) for Combustible Celluloid (2,644) on 19 Jul 2009

Moves very nicely, deftly planting seeds of suspense and mystery and keeping them growing throughout the powerful amorous entanglements…

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By Steve Biodrowski (334) for Cinefantastique (193) on 19 Jul 2009

surprisingly short on the most essential ingredient: a Sense of Wonder…

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By Anthony Lane (1,079) for New Yorker (1,403) on 19 Jul 2009

We get one lovely, cheering sequence of a trashed room putting itself in order, like the untidy nursery in Mary Poppins, but the rest of the…

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By Prairie Miller (985) for NewsBlaze (855) on 18 Jul 2009

Vagabonding through time, Potter joins up again with his telepathic posse in this coming of agelessness new adventure, while dark forces penetrate…

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By Betty Jo Tucker (725) for ReelTalk Movie Reviews (1,771) on 17 Jul 2009

The film's marvelous visuals are what I admire most about it -- and I couldn't help going deeper and deeper under the spell of such cinematic…

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By Matt Brunson (2,422) for Creative Loafing (2,337) on 16 Jul 2009

The heart of the piece remains the interactions between the characters, both teen and adult…

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By Sharon Lougher (4) for Metro (UK) (700) on 16 Jul 2009

This feels more like a diverting precursor to the main event rather than a film that truly knocks your socks off in its own right…

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By Tricia Olszewski (442) for Washington City Paper (500) on 16 Jul 2009

Trades some of Rowling's more delicate charms and foreboding for screen-ready guffaws and black/white conflict…

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By Zachary Woodruff (3) for San Diego Union-Tribune (1,408) on 16 Jul 2009

Half-Blood wavers between dizzying and dry -- it's half-bloodless…

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By Tracie Cooper (21) for TV Guide (1,527) on 16 Jul 2009

The good news is that it comes closer than any of its predecessors, hitting the mark or coming close to it on almost all fronts…

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By Cliff Doerksen (83) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 16 Jul 2009

Director David Yates presides over some gorgeous CGI set pieces, but all the real magic comes from the scrum of ace British character actors…

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By John Wirt (638) for Advocate (Baton Rouge, LA) (638) on 16 Jul 2009

Hats off to the young cast and director David Yates for bringing such depth to this latest stage of the characters' lives…

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By Mike Scott (1,178) for Times-Picayune (642) on 16 Jul 2009

Director David Yates picks up where he left off with Order of the Phoenix, assembling a nicely paced and artfully shot adventure…

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By Brandon Judell (340) for New York Theatre Wire (45) on 16 Jul 2009

Apparently, wizards are no more exempt from the trauma of puberty than Muggles. So much for the power of Magic…

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By Jw Smith (2) for Little White Lies (3,136) on 16 Jul 2009

David Yates is a solid hand as director, he does nothing but let the taps run, leaving us with little more than a bath full of comfortable…

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By Catherine Bray (216) for Film4 (1,522) on 16 Jul 2009

Too deep into the saga to win over any Potter virgins, this is payback for those who've followed the series from the start, with some of what…

Review of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009)

By Kevin Maher (647) for Times (UK) (2,458) on 16 Jul 2009

The strangest thing about the new Harry Potter movie is not that it's unusually good, which it is, but that it unequivocally illustrates just…

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