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100The best one yet.
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100Newell puts his own stamp on the franchise and delivers the best Potter movie yet filmed.
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100No, I couldn't be more pleased with what the screenwriter, Steven Kloves, and the director, Mike Newell, have wrought this time.
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91There's ample reason to stay with this series. When Harry says "I love magic," you believe it.
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91A mature, tense, frightening and altogether masterful film.
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91Harry IV is an intelligent, visually seductive and mostly very satisfying fantasy epic of the first order.
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90Its look has the same grudging beauty that, once you get used to it, English weather does: It's so defiant in its grayness that you come to appreciate its conviction.
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90It's not until Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire that a film has successfully re-created the sense of stirring magical adventure and engaged, edge-of-your-seat excitement that has made the books such an international phenomenon.
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90Last year's "The Prisoner of Azkaban" seemed dark, but this excellent fourth film derived from J.K. Rowling's books is the darkest "Potter" yet, intense enough to warrant a PG-13 rating.
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90The studio, like plucky Harry, passes with flying colors. The new one, directed by Mike Newell from another astute script by Mr. Kloves, is even richer and fuller, as well as dramatically darker. It's downright scary how good this movie is.
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88The film is more violent, less cute than the others, but the action is not the mindless destruction of a video game; it has purpose, shape and style.
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88J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter just keeps growing up. So do the Potter movies, in size, in ambition and in visual splendor - and with increasingly stunning results.
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88The darkest, most thrilling entry yet in the movie franchise.
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88Goblet of Fire is the entry in which Rowling finally took off the gloves.
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88Death, torture, humour and even budding eroticism -- now this is more like it.