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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (2001)   Movie Main Page Movie Overview   Movie Details   Showtimes & Tickets   DVD/Video Info   Trailers & Clips   Cast and Credits   Awards & Nominations Reviews and Previews Critics Reviews   User Reviews Photos   Premiere Photos   Movie Stills Community   Message Board Shopping   Buy the DVD/Video Other Resources   Web Sites   Movie Lists An all-time favorite? A movie not to miss? Add to My Movies! Email this page to a friend   Critics Reviews Average Grade:   B Source Brief Review Grade* Daily Mail "...it truly is a wizard show." more... A- Daily Telegraph "...succeeds triumphantly..." more... A   E! Online "...ends up simply drifting instead of soaring." more... B+ Hollywood Reporter "Tak[es] only a few shortcuts and hew[s] as close to the spirit of a literary work as any movie can..." more... B- New York Post Jonathan Foreman "...consistently entertaining..." more... B   ReelViews James Berardinelli "...a solid piece of entertainment." more... B   Rochester Democrat and Chronicle Jack Garner "Pure magic..." more... A   Rolling Stone Peter Travers "Is the movie any good? At the dawn of the twenty-first century, when art is defined by commerce, this question is beside the point." more... B   San Francisco Chronicle Bob Graham "[Director] Chris Columbus gets it mostly right..." more... B   Time Richard Corliss "...the book was better...than director Chris Columbus' meticulous, stolid film." more... B- TV Guide " It may be long, but it's not boring..." more... B   Village Voice J. Hoberman "Solid but uninspired..." more... C+ * Yahoo! Movies converts each critic's published rating into a letter grade. If the critic's review does not include a rating, Yahoo! Movies assigns a grade based on an assessment of the review. (more...)