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Genres:
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Adventure /
Fantasy /
Mystery /
Romance
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Director:
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David Yates
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Actors:
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Alan Rickman,
Helena Bonham Carter,
Daniel Radcliffe,
Helen McCrory,
Geraldine Somerville,
Bonnie Wright,
Oliver Phelps,
Elarica Gallagher,
Michael Gambon,
Dave Legeno,
Jim Broadbent,
Julie Walters,
Rupert Grint,
Emma Watson,
Timothy Spall
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Rating:
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(7.6/10)703
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Plot Summary:
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In Harry Potter's sixth year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft, Harry finds a lyrics marked mysteriously, "This ticket is the property of the Half Blood Prince," which helps him excel at Potions class and teaches him a few mysterious and menacing ones along the way. For now, Harry is taking private lessons with Dumbledore in order to find out about Voldemort's over so they can find effectively what might his his only decrepitude.
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Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Kenneth Turan Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince is being described as an excursion into the dark side for this venerable series, but don't let the chatter fool you. Now in its sixth episode shot over an eight-year span, with two more features still to come, this one-of-a-kind film cycle has become as comfortable and reliable as an old shoe, providing a degree of dependability that's becoming increasingly rare.
As directed by David Yates, who did the previous film and is on tap for the final two, Half-Blood Prince demonstrates the ways that the Potter pictures have become the modern exemplars of establishment moviemaking. We don't turn to these films for thrilling or original cinema, we look for a level of craft, consistency and, most of all, fidelity to the...
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Todd McCarthyKids??? stuff is a thing of the past in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. Suddenly looking quite grown up, the students at Hogwarts are forced to grapple with heavy issues of mortality, memory and loss in this sixth installment in the series of bigscreen adaptations of J.K. Rowling???s Potter tales. Dazzlingly well made and perhaps deliberately less fanciful than the previous entries, this one is played in a mode closer to palpable life-or-death drama than any of the others and is quite effective as such. Delayed by Warner Bros. from a late 2008 release date so as to spread the wealth after The Dark Knight scored so mightily last summer, this Prince is poised to follow its predecessors as one of the year???s two or three top-earning films.
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