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A marked disappointment after Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, this fourth installment in the franchise is a 157-minute holding pattern.

-J. R. JonesFull Review

[Newell] cannot do much about the slightly tired sadism that is creeping into the cracks of the Potter franchise.

-Anthony Lane

The special effects are first rate but I think it's always going to be about the characters. And they're great characters.

-Richard RoeperFull Review

It's always a treat to see what big-studio-franchise cash can produce in the way of top-flight British (and Irish) actors.

-David EdelsteinFull Review

Screenwriter Kloves deserves a tip of the wizard's hat for cutting Rowling's immense tome (636 pages) down to size, and for keeping the story moving despite a surfeit of characters and incidents.

-Peter HowellFull Review

Not just an efficient babysitter but a wizard of a movie.

-Richard CorlissFull Review

The real hero of the fourth Harry Potter film isn't the teenage wizard but screenwriter Steve Kloves, who has magically transformed J.K. Rowling's bloated, 734-page novel into a more swiftly paced, entertaining script.

-Connie OgleFull Review

Wait a minute. Sequels aren't supposed to get better.

-Roger MooreFull Review

Newell deftly mixes in sweet teenage angst and lighter moments of physical humor.

-Lisa KennedyFull Review

This edition advances the Potter saga through the presentation of a variety of set pieces, some quite spectacular. And if the movie sometimes loses momentum, it contains enough grand sights and magical mayhem to stir even skeptical imaginations.

-Robert Denerstein

Frankly, the entire film felt like the cinematic version of Hamburger Helper -- too little meat trying to do too much.

-Paul Clinton (CNN.com)Full Review

There's ample reason to stay with this series. When Harry says 'I love magic,' you believe it.

-Peter RainerFull Review

Frankly, the entire film felt like the cinematic version of Hamburger Helper -- too little meat trying to do too much.

-(CNN.com) Paul ClintonFull Review

The fourth installment (yes, it never ends) in the series about the little wizard with the round glasses grows so violent and ghoulish that it drains the appeal of stories that are best when they stay innocuous.

-Bill MullerFull Review

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire is probably the most engaging Potter film of the series thus far.

-Desson ThomsonFull Review

The strongest film of the bunch.

-Jeff StricklerFull Review

Goblet offers its own brew of wondrous chimera combined with the wonders of human nature.

-Ruthe SteinFull Review

Though the special effects in this film are often breathtaking, the real drama is here is exactly where it should be: in a young man's frightened but resolute eyes.

-Moira MacDonaldFull Review

It's scarier than the previous three movies and more poignant.

-Claudia PuigFull Review

It'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.

-Kenneth TuranFull Review

A movie that assures us that the journey we are on will be worth the time and emotion that's been invested in it.

-Terry LawsonFull Review

More impressive than wondrous, it won't transform the series, but it moves it along, pushing its charges toward adulthood and the mean sorcery of the grown-up world.

-Tom Long

Easily the most involving of the movies so far.

-Liam LaceyFull Review

There's a darkness on the edge of Hogwarts, and its name is adolescence.

-Ty BurrFull Review

The visual magic of the story, as well as some enormously welcome glimmerings of humor, gives it the solid feel of a well-tended franchise.

-Bruce Newman

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, fourth in the fantasy franchise, is the most fun and the most fraught with conflict.

-Carrie Rickey

The film follows in the fantasy tradition of stretching perceptions of the possible, and it does so in a richly realized and recognizably human universe.

-Chris VognarFull Review

It balances the exhilaration of independence -- one of the great joys of growing up -- with the sobering realization that being a grown-up means there's no one around to protect you.

-Stephanie ZacharekFull Review

Goblet shifts effortlessly from dark to light to dark again.

-Jami BernardFull Review

Goblet of Fire is indisputably the best movie in the franchise thus far.

-Eleanor Ringel GillespieFull Review


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