Variety and The Hollywood Reporter have both posted reviews of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince:A positive one from Variety: "Director David Yates, after a prosaic series debut on the prior film, displays noticeably increased confidence here, injecting more real-world grit into what began eight years ago as purest child's fantasy; messenger owls and chattering house elves have been superseded by a frank Underground tea-room flirtation, school security checks and raging teenage hormones."
A less-than-positive one that questions some film making decisions from The Hollywood Reporter: "All this has a hurried feeling. Shouldn't there be repercussions to the collapse of a London bridge? The movie never stops to ask. Steve Kloves, who scripted the first four installments but skipped the fifth one, is back to scoot audiences through major events that transpire in a twinkling."
The Sun: HBP "most confident, stylish, individual" yet
There's a great new review for Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince online this evening courtesy of The Sun:
The problem with the previous Harry Potter movies, though, is that every important twist and turn has been slavishly crowbarred in.
It has made for some uneven storytelling - the worst offender being the last instalment, The Order Of The Phoenix.
Thankfully, director David Yates has learned from his mistakes and here he turns in the most confident, stylish, individual, warm-hearted and witty Harry Potter yet.
He's also turned up the heat by focusing on raging hormones rather than rampaging beasts, with the main characters more interested in mixing love potions than aceing their exams.
Instead of "going darker" again (yawn), Daniel Radcliffe as Harry, inset, Emma Watson (Hermione Granger) and Rupert Grint (Ron Weasley) go lighter.
You can read much more right here.
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