Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007)
Directed by David Yates
When a new professor's methods leave Hogwarts unprepared to fight the rising tide of evil, Harry teaches students how to defend against the dark arts.
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He also plays within the genre, referencing Terry Gilliam’s Brazil (which is ironic, considering that the ex-pat Python was the first director approached about helming the Potter franchise) and drops a foray into Lord of the Rings territory (as when Robbie Coltrane’s Hagrid shares a ‘secret’ with Harry and Hermione).
Yates tosses in dashes of snappy thematic touches from films like "1984," "Brazil" and even "The Exorcist," to create a subtext-rich visual palate for a narrative that compartmentalizes sentimentality into a handheld crystal ball.
(Idziak shot Ridley Scott’s “Black Hawk Down” and also collaborated with the late Krzysztof Kieslowski on nearly a dozen films.)
Working with the Polish cinematographer Slawomir Idziak ("Black Hawk Down"), he constructs some dazzling environments (like the black-lacquered halls of the Ministry of Magic, where interdepartmental memos go winging through the air like origami hummingbirds).
…reminiscent of Helena Bonham Carter’s Bellatrix Lestrange…
As Edward, Robert Pattinson (2007's " Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix ") is off-screen for a sizable portion of the running time, but makes the most of what he has.