Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

"An elegant addition to the series. (...) Radcliffe in particular, has never been better than here, displaying new maturity and subtlety. (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of four)." 

"David Yates knows how to play all the cards. Although a touch ungainly, his film is solidly constructed, with lots of fine effects (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)" 

"David Yates feels a safer pair of hands than ever, underlining the Potter world's essential Englishness in a string of atmospheric locations (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)" 

"The present film is a stepping stone, neither classic Potter nor scintillating adventure, but it proves the depth and wholeness of Rowling's imagined world (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)" 

"Darker, more hormonal, more teenage-angsty and sadly more boring (...) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)" 

"The strangest thing about the new Harry Potter movie is not that it's unusually good, which it is, but that it unequivocally illustrates just how poorly we've been served by the previous five instalments in the franchise (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)" 

"Is merely the sixth chapter in a now eight-part series that, much like its young hero, played by Daniel Radcliffe, has begun to show signs of stress around the edges, a bit of fatigue (...) far more than any of the previous films, feels like an afterthought."