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Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004)   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* Atlanta Journal-Constitution Eleanor Ringel Gillespie "As Harry himself would say, brilliant!" more... A- Boston Globe Wesley Morris "Please don't think the hand-held camera at the start of the third Harry Potter movie means that the franchise is off to a shaky start. It's just the opposite." more... A- Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert "Is Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban as good as the first two films? Not quite." more... B+ Chicago Tribune Mark Caro "This third Harry Potter movie shakes the candy coating off of the franchise without violating its spirit." more... A- Cincinnati Enquirer Margaret A. McGurk "This is an elegant feat of imagination - fluid, graceful and alive with potent feeling." more... A   E! Online "...(Alfonso) Cuarón has crafted a well-paced tween movie that feels modern, timeless, funny and frightening all at once." more... A   filmcritic.com Christopher Null "... I can’t recommend Azkaban for anyone but die-hard Potter heads." more... C   Hollywood Reporter Michael Rechtshaffen "A deeper, darker, visually arresting and more emotionally satisfying adaptation of the J.K. Rowling literary phenomenon." more... A- New York Post Lou Lumenick "Harry Potter and the Wizard of Azkaban is precisely the kind of invention the franchise needed..." more... A- New York Times A.O. Scott "...devilish magic." more... B+ ReelViews James Berardinelli "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban proves that a new director with a different perspective can freshen a series..." more... B   Rolling Stone Peter Travers "...by far the best and most thrilling of the three Harry Potter movies to date..." more... A- San Francisco Chronicle Mick LaSalle "Much more than its predecessors, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban is a movie for adults, too." more... B   Seattle Post-Intelligencer William Arnold "Will wonders never cease! Harry Potter's latest tale is sublime." more... A- USA Today Claudia Puig "To paraphrase one of Harry's spells, this third Potter film has managed mischief brilliantly." more... A- * 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...)