![]() ![]() ![]() With Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, an event called the Triwizard Tournament comes to the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005) It is a cute caper - remarkably light in comparison to the films which were yet to come. Something or someone is paralyzing students of Hogwarts and the triumvirate of well-intentioned wizards-in-training are on the case. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002)Īpart from being the sequel to the massively successful first Harry Potter film, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets is also a sturdy whodunnit genre film. Together they solve a mystery which unfolds at their boarding school of wizardry, Hogwarts. He befriends two other children, the neurotic, constantly-grimacing Ron Weasley (Rupert Grint) and the studious brainiac Hermione Granger (Watson). Who better to kick off the whimsical Harry Potter franchise than Chris Columbus, writer of Gremlins and director of Home Alone ? It is almost all fun and games in this first entry in which the titular Harry Potter is transported from his miserable mortal life to that of wizards and witches. Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (2001) Though it certainly has its detractors - perhaps rightfully so, perhaps not - the gigantic scale of the film is hard to deny. The film received mixed reviews from various public figures in the Abrahamic religions, but critics gave it generally positive response. In the adaptation of the Biblical narrative of Noah’s Ark by Darren Aronofsky - director of Requiem for a Dream, The Fighter and Mother! - Watson plays the titular character (Russell Crowe)’s adopted daughter Ila. It has perhaps the most heart of any of the Harry Potter films and certainly feels the least overstuffed. ![]() It reads much more like a small, character-driven film, with the focus pointed at the deep friendship between Harry and Hermione. The result is one of the best of the franchise. As such, the film was free to move at a pace uncharacteristically slow for the franchise. ![]() Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 1 (2010)Īs a “part one” of a film adaptation, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 1, it was not required to cram the entire book into a single film. The film is arguably the most compelling of the series as it slowly peels back the layers of Harry’s mysterious family. Watson reprises her role as the eponymous Harry (Daniel Radcliffe)’s overachieving best friend Hermione Granger. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004)Īfter two fun, relatively light Harry Potter films directed by Chris Columbus, the mind behind Gremlins, the franchise turned to Alfonso Cuaron to push it toward its inevitable darkness. She gives a great performance, characterizing a grotesque who is interested in little else than reaching the upper echelon of celebrity. Watson plays Nicki Moore, the ringleader of the group. Sofia Coppola adapted The Bling Ring from a Vanity Fair piece called “The Suspects Wore Louboutins” about a gang of teenage San Fernando Valley club-hoppers who burgled millions of dollars worth of merchandise from celebrities’ homes. In the film, Emma Watson appears - also as a version of herself - in a brief but undeniably funny cameo. It conceives of a world where Hollywood’s most famous stoner comedians-Jay Baruchel, Seth Rogen, James Franco, Jonah Hill, Michael Cera Danny McBride and Craig Robinson, all playing a version of themselves-find themselves throwing a party during which the Biblical apocalypse described in the Book of Revelation unfolds. It is imaginative and raunchy and irreverent as all get-out. This is the End is unlike almost any other film out there. ![]()
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