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Variety Review of Half-Blood Prince: Indispensable Rickman Delivers
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Variety Review of Half-Blood Prince: Indispensable Rickman Delivers HBP Film Variety has now posted their review of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince , and it contains much praise for the sixth installment in the Harry Potter film series. Noting that director David Yates "displays noticeably increased confidence here, injecting more real-world grit into what began eight years ago as purest child's fantas," and has made a film that is "film is clear-headed and clean-lined." The long review notes the physical changes of the cast, but does hand praise to the efforts of the adult cast members in particular making mention of the actor who ...
Hogwarts Imprisonment
Hollywood Elsewhere —
... always made money, but they haven't mattered for years. Certainly not to people like me. They're just big-budget cult movies that spin round and round inside their own CG-pumped fishbowl. I got off the boat five years ago (i.e., after Alfonso Cuaron 's Azkaban ) and I'll never get back on. Ever. I might feel differently if the producers were to venture out into the world and leave Hogwarts behind, but that's never been in the cards. Variety 's Todd McCarthy , in any event, has reviewed the latest -- ...
Various Scans Featuring Rupert Grint!
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July 05, 2009, 4:08pm–Various magazines have come out during 2009 to promote Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince that feature Rupert Grint! We have several scans, these scanned exclusively by us (unless otherwise noted). While sadly they contain no new information, they are a blast to look at! The first batch is from Italian magazine “Let’s Go” that also features a piece on Rupert’s Harry Potter co-star Emma Watson! You may view the scans here and read a translation here thanks to Silvia98! Movie Magic has also published their Harry ...
Early Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince Reviews
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... Dazzlingly well made and perhaps deliberately less fanciful than the previous entries, this one is played in a mode closer to palpable life-or-death drama than any of the others and is quite effective as such. - Todd McCarthy, Variety A jerky start of exposition and backstory gives way to vigorous storytelling in the latest chapter of Harry Potter. - ...
Weekend Catch-Up: Holiday B.O., Harry Potter Review, Brennan, Klein R.I.P., Andreessen Fund
Thompson On Hollywood —
... Todd McCarthy favorably reviews the sixth Harry Potter installment, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. The most grown-up and thrilling of the bunch, the film will be one of the highest-grossing of the year, he predicts. ...
HP:HBP Reviews So Far
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Two more Half-Blood Prince reviews posted Variety and The Hollywood Reporter have both posted reviews of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince: A positive one from Variety: "Director David Yates, after a prosaic series debut on the prior film, displays noticeably increased confidence here, injecting ...
Warm reviews for latest ‘Potter’
In Contention —
I must admit upfront that I don’t really get the Harry Potter franchise. I don’t dislike it — not having exposed myself enough to its components to justify such a response — but I’ve never felt remotely compelled to deepen my acquaintance with the material. I’ve tackled one of my J.K. Rowling’s novels, but the lumpen functionality of her prose didn’t tempt me further.
As for the films, I’ve sat through two of them — and yes, one of them was Alfonso Cuaron’s expertly crafted but still personality-deficient effort — and found them both painless yet unengaging watches. I ...
Half-Blood Prince Is The Best Harry Potter Movie, Say Early Reviews [Harry Potter]
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... Potter film will be a journey both into the dark underbelly of the mystical realm, with breaks for the students to make out between the stacks. Reviewers didn't even seem too miffed the film cut out the novel's big climactic scene. And what of the films running time (the longest of the Potter films thus far)? Not long enough, says some critics — bladders be damned, you'll supposedly will be looking for bottle to fill on the floor, so not to miss a moment of the action. Variety: Steve Kloves happily returned to once again skillfully condense a ...
“Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince” — A Variety Review
Slice of SciFi —
Kids’ stuff is a thing of the past in “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.” Suddenly looking quite grown up, the students at Hogwarts are forced to grapple with heavy issues of mortality, memory and loss in this sixth installment in the series of bigscreen adaptations of J.K. Rowling’s Potter tales. Dazzlingly well made and perhaps deliberately less fanciful than the previous entries, this one is played in a mode closer to palpable life-or-death drama than any of the others and is quite effective as such. Delayed by Warner Bros. from a late 2008 release date so as to spread the wealth after “The Dark ...
List of H-BP reviews
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List of H-BP reviews
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... NME Pink News Screen Daily Sci-Fi Movie Page SciFi Now SFX Sound Screen The Daily Express The Daily Mail The Guardian The Hollywood Reporter This is London The Scotsman The Shiznit The Sun The Telegraph The Times Variety Yahoo! If you have any more reviews, then please do send them into us! TheDailySnitcher and Danradcliffe.co.uk's ...
‘Half Blood Prince’ Review Round-Up!
Harry Potter Movie Buzz —
The reviews have started pouring out for Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, and you’ll be happy to know they’re almost all positive. As I write this, it’s sitting at a 90% on Rotten Tomatoes, with only one rotten review — and that one gave it 3 out of 5 stars, hardly a pan.
The general consensus? Not a lot of action, a lot of relationships, and great performances all around. Here are a few reviews to keep you busy:
CHUD:
A remarkable achievement, a film that is moving, that is funny, that is honest and true and sad and sweet. It’s a movie about ...
Half-Blood Prince Suffers From Lack Of Action, Emma Watson's Hotness [Critical Mass]
Jezebel —
... not Watson's fault she grew up so pretty, so poised, with such luscious tresses. But someone ought to have reminded the filmmakers that in this boy-centric universe, Hermione is the nerdy-wonky cutie with whom all girls, hot and not, could identify. Now she's just another cover girl. I found myself wishing for more of the washed-out blonde Evanna Lynch and her glassy singsong as the space case Luna Lovegood, the last female reminder that Harry Potter began as a universe of misfits. Variety But assessing the romantic entanglements is not nearly as much fun as simply beholding ...
