- Studio: Warner Bros. Pictures
- Release Date: Jun 4, 2004
- Starring: Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint
- Summary: In this third installment of the series, the infamous Sirius Black has escaped from the dreaded fortress of Azkaban and is headed straight to Harry Potter.
- Director: Alfonso CuarĂ³n
- Genre(s): Adventure, Mystery, Fantasy, Family
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 36 out of 40
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Mixed: 4 out of 40
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Negative: 0 out of 40
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100Soars gloriously into fluency and magic.
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100The Prisoner of Azkaban is to Harry Potter what that other No. 3, "Goldfinger," was to James Bond: the movie that takes the invention and gamesmanship of the series to a whole new giddy peak.
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80In the Harry Potter film series thus far, The Sorcerer's Stone remains the strongest, perhaps because the first look at any rich new world is almost always going to be more groundbreaking than its sequels. But Prisoner of Azkaban is a worthy and stylistically different follow-up, where Chamber of Secrets often felt like an unimaginative retread.
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60Cuaron lets his enthusiasms show.
Score distribution:
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Positive: 225 out of 334
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Mixed: 36 out of 334
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Negative: 73 out of 334
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Finally, a harry potter movie that starts childlike and ends with maturity! Bravo Alfonso Cuaron!
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AustinM.3This one just doesn't give me that feeling the first two gave me and it lacks the action of the 4th and 5th films. By far the worst so far.
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