All 9 JK Rowling Movie Adaptations Ranked From Worst to Best (Photos)
All 9 JK Rowling Movie Adaptations Ranked From Worst to Best (Photos)
The term “movie magic” applies to few endeavors as literally as it does to the Harry Potter movies, which to this muggle’s eyes do a fine job of bringing JK Rowling’s transportive novels to screen.
The franchise didn’t put its best foot forward, but Sorcerer’s Stone — which both detractors and admirers point to as being more faithful to its source material than any other Harry Potter movie, hence the protracted runtime — was only a momentary stumble.
The first half of the finale has some of the franchise’s most moving moments — Hedwig, he hardly knew ye; you were a good elf, Dobby — but, for obvious reasons, simply doesn’t function as as a standalone film.
David Yates directed every Harry Potter film from starting with this one, and though his first occasionally lags on its way to the third act, that finale gives perhaps the most moving, complete sense of the life-and-death stakes of Harry and Voldemort’s conflict.
Though we still don’t know much about either our new hero or this new setting, the film itself marks a welcome return to an immersive fictional world.
What’s sometimes forgotten about the sentimental first two films is that, unlike some later entries, they feel like complete stories in and of themselves.
The true turning point in the world of Harry Potter, Goblet of Fire makes good on Sorcerer’s Stone’s promise that the innocent are the first victims.
[...] Deathly Hallows — Part 2 expands the series’ narrative frame and ties its narrative threads together with true elegance — especially as regards Snape, who emerges here as Rowling’s best, most tragic character.
Positioned between the sentimental entries directed by Chris Columbus and the bleaker chapters to follow, Prisoner of Azkaban achieves a near-perfect balance between light and dark, good and evil.
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