As his fifth year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry approaches, 15-year-old Harry Potter is in full-blown adolescence, complete with regular outbursts of rage, a nearly debilitating crush, and the blooming of a powerful sense of rebellion. It's been yet another infuriating and boring summer with the despicable Dursleys, this time with minimal contact from our hero's non-Muggle friends from school. Harry is feeling especially edgy at the lack of news from the magic world, wondering when the freshly revived evil Lord Voldemort will strike. Returning to Hogwarts will be a relief--or will it?

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PETER TRAVERS - June 29, 2007

If you're not hot for Harry onscreen, watch out for Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, the fifth of the seven Potter books to be filmed to date. It will hook you good and keep you riveted. The candyass aspect of the first two films -- Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone in 2001 and Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets a year later -- was replaced by heat and resonance with 2004's Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban when Mexican master Alfonso Cuaron (Children of Men) took…

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Less flash, more grit, The Order of the Phoenix is definitely the most introspective of the Harry Potter movies. If you're expecting fast-paced wizardry action at every turn, however, you might be disappointed.

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As the fifth year at Hogwarts begins, most of the wizardry world is having a hard time believing Voldemort (Ralph Fiennes) has returned, further propagated by the Ministry of Magic, who refuses to recognize anything evil is brewing and blames all the hullabaloo on Harry (Daniel…