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hollywood.com - 6/30/2009

Mr. Potter, Meet Mr. Oscar? at Hollywood.com

— hollywood.com — At a special screening this morning, I had the privilege to see Warner Bros. Harry Potter and... the Half-Blood Prince , and I was blown away like a Quidditch player on a supercharged broomstick. Not only that, halfway through, I’m thinking the ... (more) Mr. Potter, Meet Mr. Oscar? at Hollywood.com

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filmschoolrejects.com - 7/5/2009

Watch This: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince HBO First Look

— filmschoolrejects.com — Now that Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen has hit theaters and quickly ascended to the top of... the yearly box office chart, it is time to look forward — to the next big summer blockbuster, which happens to be about a bunch of little Brits and their wands. Harry Potter and the ... (more) Watch This: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince HBO ...

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guardian.co.uk - 7/6/2009

Film review: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince | Film | The Guardian

— guardian.co.uk — Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. Photograph: Courtesy Warner Bros... (more) Film review: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince ...

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Hogwarts Imprisonment
Hollywood Elsewhere — ... have 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 Hogwarts fishbowl. I got off the boat five years ago (i.e. after Alfonso Cuaron 's Azkaban ) and I'll never ever get back on. I'd think differently if the films would 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 -- em>Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince ...

Early Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince Reviews
Cinema Blend News — ... “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.” - ...

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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. ...

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 ...