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Alynda Wheat, People: MODERATE (cg) "...it's far too long. A clever jaunt into the Ministry of Magic and brisk chases punctuate the dull stretches... feels like set-up for the dramatic finale..." (Read the full review...) 152 words, 11/18/10 Richard Corliss, Time: WEAK "The film's movement is lateral, not forward... Only Watson has the blessing of screen radiance." (Read the full review...) 1,038 words, 11/19/10 Christy Lemire, Associated Press: VERY GOOD (cg) "...it's thrilling off the top... repeatedly sags in the middle... ultimately picking up at the cliffhanger climax." (Read the full review...) 907 words, 11/18/10 Thelma Adams, Us Weekly: VERY GOOD (cg) "...fails to sustain the opening sequence's perfect mix of peril and excitement... boasts several emotional highs, including a kiss between Harry and Ron's sister..." (Read the full review...) 160 words, 11/18/10 Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly: OUTSTANDING (cg) "This is who Harry Potter has grown up to be: a young man strong enough to love his friends, clever enough to outwit his foes, and brave enough to face his future." (Read the full review...) 704 words, 11/19/10 Peter Travers, Rolling Stone: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "...all tease, zero payoff.... plays like a 146-minute trailer for the actual final chapter... rolls along like something off an assembly line. Untouched by human hands." (Read the full review...) 235 words, 11/26/10 Scott Bowles, USA Today: OUTSTANDING (cg) "Menacing and meditative... arguably the best installment... though audiences who haven't kept up with previous chapters will be hopelessly lost." (Read the full review...) 543 words, 11/19/10 Roger Ebert, RogerEbert.com: VERY GOOD (cg) "...handsome and sometimes harrowing... will be completely unintelligible for anyone coming to the series for the first time.... depends more on mood and character..." (Read the full review...) 961 words, 11/17/10 James Berardinelli, Reel Views: VERY GOOD (cg) "Yeates' high octane approach to action is worthy of what one might find in another venerable British series - that of 007.... goes to the most deliciously dark places it has yet gone." (Read the full review...) 1,371 words, 11/17/10
A.O. Scott, New York Times: VERY GOOD "...manages to be both a stepping stone and a reasonably satisfying experience in its own right.... finds notes of anxious suspense and grave emotion..." (Read the full review...) 944 words, 11/18/10 Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News: EXCELLENT (cg) "...feels sad and strong and true. And when it's over, you want that last chapter to begin immediately and, somehow, never end." (Read the full review...) 302 words, 11/16/10 Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: MODERATE "...more teenage psychodrama than we'd ideally have to deal with.... the filmmakers have tried hard to fill the proceedings with battles and chases and debilitating curses." (Read the full review...) 798 words, 11/18/10 Lou Lumenick, New York Post: MODERATE (cg) "Beautifully shot but a soulless cash machine... delivers no dramatic payoff, no resolution and not much fun. Hopefully we'll get that in the final installment..." (Read the full review...) 555 words, 11/18/10 Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune: VERY GOOD (cg) "...will not be for everyone. It takes its time. It has a heavy heart, and a sluggish middle passage.... What works especially well this time? The little things." (Read the full review...) 613 words, 11/18/10 Rafer Guzman, New York Newsday: VERY GOOD (cg) "A darker and harder-hitting but thoroughly entertaining 'Potter.' " (Read the full review...) 371 words, 11/17/10 David Edelstein, New York Magazine: FAIR " 'Hallows's' first hour is deadly, all right.... Next time, we want magic, people." (Read the full review...) 604 words, 11/15/10 Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: VERY GOOD (cg) "...handsome and sometimes harrowing... will be completely unintelligible for anyone coming to the series for the first time.... depends more on mood and character..." (Read the full review...) 961 words, 11/17/10 Dan Kois, Village Voice/LA Weekly: GOOD "For die-hard fans of the novels, the movie's haste is merely aggravating. But casual viewers might well tune out the details and just enjoy the scenery." (Read the full review...) 846 words, 11/17/10 Peter Howell, Toronto Star: VERY GOOD (cg) "Steve Kloves deserves special praise this time. He makes an exciting story out of only half a book, and he does so while negotiating the largest array of characters yet..." (Read the full review...) 1,024 words, 11/18/10 Rick Groen, Toronto Globe & Mail: MODERATE (cg) "...the movie only comes alive when it's dramatizing a story within the story, using lovely animated silhouettes to recount the Parable of the Three Gentlemen." (Read the full review...) 862 words, 11/18/10 Josep Parera, La Opinion: VERY GOOD (cg) "Si 'The Deathly Hallows: Part II' logra impactar a la audiencia con la misma efectividad que esta primera parte, la saga creada por Rowling culminará de forma inolvidable." (Read the full review...) 475 words, 11/19/10 Norman Wilner, Toronto Now: EXCELLENT (cg) "...the most satisfying and confident Harry Potter movie yet.... great stuff, playing out with the self-assurance of a fully mature franchise." (Read the full review...) 587 words, 11/18/10
Ann Hornaday, Washington Post: VERY GOOD (cg) "...full of the enchantment, emotion and incident for which the 'Potter' series has become so fanatically cherished.... also grim, downbeat and unimaginably sad..." (Read the full review...) 935 words, 11/18/10 Carrie Rickey, Philadelphia Inquirer: VERY GOOD (cg) "...gives its characters and audience time to inhale and process the gravity of the situation.... Watson's so good that one wishes Rowling had built her septology around Hermione Potter." (Read the full review...) 642 words, 11/18/10 Amy Biancolli, Houston Chronicle/San Francisco Chronicle: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "...nothing if not epic... This one is a long, archetypal journey that screeches to a halt a few stops short of its destination." (Read the full review...) 695 words, 11/19/10 Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel: OUTSTANDING (cg) "Alternately funny and touching, it's the best film in the series... a masterly build-up to put 'I can't wait for part 2' on every Muggles' lips." (Read the full review...) 533 words, 11/18/10 Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star-Tribune: VERY GOOD (cg) "Radcliffe, Watson and Grint, having literally grown up in their characters, are ready for their close-up. They earned it, they deserve it and they nailed it." (Read the full review...) 670 words, 11/18/10 Bill Goodykoontz, Arizona Republic: VERY GOOD (cg) "...not a bad movie, but it is very much a transitional one... we're left with the pieces in place for the final showdown between Harry and Voldemort..." (Read the full review...) 562 words, 11/18/10 Nancy Churnin, Dallas Morning News: OUTSTANDING (cg) "Even those who know where it's going should be drawn to see how this team, which has done so well so far, has visualized that extraordinary conclusion." (Read the full review...) 567 words, 11/18/10 Wesley Morris, Boston Globe: VERY GOOD (cg) "...features the most deliriously inspired moviemaking since 'The Prisoner of Azkaban'... Now we're here, ready to mourn the end, only to have to come back..." (Read the full review...) 1,029 words, 11/18/10 Julie E. Washington, Cleveland Plain-Dealer: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...intense..." (Read the full review...) 433 words, 11/18/10 Moira Macdonald, Seattle Times: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...very satisfying, despite its sometimes clunky source material." (Read the full review...) 670 words, 11/19/10 Mike Russell, Portland Oregonian: EXCELLENT (cg) "The pace is still brisk and the set pieces are still outlandish, and returning director David Yates ('Order of the Phoenix,' 'Half-Blood Prince') still has a surprisingly light touch..." (Read the full review...) 776 words, 11/18/10 Joe Williams, St. Louis Post-Dispatch: VERY GOOD (cg) "...slower and stranger than any of the previous films, simultaneously raising hopes for a haunting finale while dimming hopes for a magical one." (Read the full review...) 390 words, 11/18/10 Steve Persall, St. Petersburg Times: GOOD (cg) "...the good stuff doesn't prevent this film from being little more than what must be done before better stuff happens." (Read the full review...) 895 words, 11/18/10 Tom Long, Detroit News: GOOD (cg) "...tense and entertaining but frustratingly incomplete." (Read the full review...) 692 words, 11/19/10 Rene Rodriguez, Miami Herald: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "...hampered by a sluggish pace and long stretches in which absolutely nothing happens... Fans of the novels, however, won't mind..." (Read the full review...) 679 words, 11/19/10
Dan Kois, Village Voice/LA Weekly: GOOD "For die-hard fans of the novels, the movie's haste is merely aggravating. But casual viewers might well tune out the details and just enjoy the scenery." (Read the full review...) 846 words, 11/17/10 Josh Tyler, Cinema Blend: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "...much of this first part is almost incomprehensible.... Good enough is just about what 'Deathly Hallows' is... even for those of us who have no idea what's going on..." (Read the full review...) 1,271 words, 11/16/10 Peter Keough, Boston Phoenix: VERY GOOD (cg) "...the natural effects exceed the special kind. And then other moments stand out because of their simple humanity, scenes in which loved ones are united or lost." (Read the full review...) 577 words, 11/18/10 Tasha Robinson, AV Club: MODERATE (cg) "...the oddest 'Harry Potter' yet: an awkward mating of action-fantasy and a self-reflective indie movie... makes no bones about being part of a longer work rather than a stand-alone film." (Read the full review...) 368 words, 11/18/10 Nick Schager, Slant: MODERATE (cg) "...dedication to accuracy proves an anchor weighing down these proceedings, with countless sequences practically begging to be trimmed so as to kick up some much-needed momentum." (Read the full review...) 820 words, 11/17/10 Norman Wilner, Toronto Now: EXCELLENT (cg) "...the most satisfying and confident Harry Potter movie yet.... great stuff, playing out with the self-assurance of a fully mature franchise." (Read the full review...) 587 words, 11/18/10 Curt Holman, Atlanta Creative Loafing: EXCELLENT (cg) "...comedy comes as blessed relief... heavy but powerful..." (Read the full review...) 586 words, 11/19/10 MaryAnn Johanson, Flick Filosopher: FAIR (cg) "...damn nigh impenetrable without the background of the novel... Yates does bring an appropriately gloomy air of despair, loneliness, and disconnect down over the proceedings..." (Read the full review...) 774 words, 11/19/10
Bob Mondello, NPR All Things Considered: VERY GOOD "...manages to be involving and kind of artful about the boredom and loneliness of heroism, while sounding a long throbbing drumroll for next summer's grand finale." (Listen to the full review...) 235 seconds, 11/18/10 Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal: WEAK "...some mysterious movie curse has turned the three once-lively adventurers into wood.... baffling -- the commonplace chases, the murky look, the indifferent effects..." (Read the full review...) 481 words, 11/18/10 A.O. Scott, New York Times: VERY GOOD "...manages to be both a stepping stone and a reasonably satisfying experience in its own right.... finds notes of anxious suspense and grave emotion..." (Read the full review...) 944 words, 11/18/10 Anthony Lane, New Yorker: WEAK "...consists largely of Harry, Ron and Hermione arguing about their hopeless situation, at length, in a tent." (Read the full review...) 253 words, 11/22/10 David Edelstein, NPR Fresh Air: FAIR "The film's feel is paranoid and post-apocalyptic, and it's no wonder the central trio's well of affectionate banter has run dry." (Listen to the full review...) 403 seconds, 11/19/10 Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: MODERATE "...more teenage psychodrama than we'd ideally have to deal with.... the filmmakers have tried hard to fill the proceedings with battles and chases and debilitating curses." (Read the full review...) 798 words, 11/18/10 Dana Stevens, Slate: VERY GOOD "...one of my favorite 'Harry Potter' movies so far, precisely because it takes a break from the magic-and-monster-crammed busyness of its predecessors." (Read the full review...) 714 words, 11/18/10 Andrew O'Hehir, Salon: VERY GOOD "...long, dour, impressive and handsome... Yates and screenwriter Steve Kloves have done a fine job of building up a big, black foreboding cloud in this next-to-last installment." (Read the full review...) 1,589 words, 11/17/10
Justin Chang, Daily Variety: GOOD (NOT GREAT) "...lumbering and gripping by turns, and suffused with a profound sense of solitude and loss.... at times seems to falter under the weight of its exposition." (Read the full review...) 1,251 words, 11/11/10 Todd McCarthy, Hollywood Reporter: MODERATE "...feels devoted above all to reproducing the novel onscreen as closely as possible, an impulse that drags it toward ponderousness at times..." (Read the full review...) 798 words, 11/11/10 Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: MODERATE "...more teenage psychodrama than we'd ideally have to deal with.... the filmmakers have tried hard to fill the proceedings with battles and chases and debilitating curses." (Read the full review...) 798 words, 11/18/10 Emanuel Levy, Cinema 24/7: VERY GOOD (cg) "...has some great and occasionally even magical special effects. But in terms of narrative, the tale and its degree of involvement are sharply uneven." (Read the full review...) 739 words, 11/14/10 A.O. Scott, New York Times: VERY GOOD "...manages to be both a stepping stone and a reasonably satisfying experience in its own right.... finds notes of anxious suspense and grave emotion..." (Read the full review...) 944 words, 11/18/10 Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal: WEAK "...some mysterious movie curse has turned the three once-lively adventurers into wood.... baffling -- the commonplace chases, the murky look, the indifferent effects..." (Read the full review...) 481 words, 11/18/10
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