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movie review - Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one million words

Toronto, 2011.08.14

At last, we have a good Harry Potter movie. I've lost count as to which this is, the fourth or fifth, perhaps?

Anyway, it's a good deal more sophisticated this time out and between the writing and a superb effort by the supporting cast member who plays a visiting bureaucrat like a British-flavored Soviet "Political Officer", it feels high-stakes and grounded in some sort of normalcy. The tone is unusually steady for these movies, and the plot is more or less consistent.

Recommended.

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The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.

—Bertrand Russell