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Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them (2016)

Just when you thought J.K. Rowling hadn’t milked those gloriously prosperous udders of the Harry Potter royalty cow enough, the prolific writer pulls a volte-face on that “no more Harry…

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The Martian (2015)

We all should really know by now that, at least in Hollywood’s own mental frame of reference, if you’re stranded somewhere (whether on Earth’s terra firma or on another planet deep in…

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Pan (2015)

Ten-year olds would love Joe Wright’s Pan. It makes for a perfect Saturday matinée show in a cinema swarmed with barely tempered kiddywinks, their saucer-wide eyes lapping up the giddy visual…

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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part Two (2011)

Deathly Hallows: Part Two delivers a rousing, grandstanding finale to a franchise that inspired popular imagination. This may not be the best in the series, artistically speaking, but David Yates marshals a film of many plot MacGuffins and gives the Potter phenomenon a worthy, emotionally resonant send-off.

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Harry Potter and the End of Youth: Deathly Hallows Part 2 Trailer

The words ‘epic finale’ have already been tossed around with the upcoming release of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part Two, but with its official teaser trailer sweeping in, it looks like David Yates heightens the stakes and gives this phenomenal franchise the big climax it deserves. That sound you’re hearing now is the legion of fans screaming for 15th of July.

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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part One (2010)

Although inevitably flawed, there are flickers of sombre beauty, moments of sadness and heartfelt, mature performances from its three leads that lend this film some resonance and dramatic weight.

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Alice in the Wonderland (2010)

Not so much Burtonesque as shoddy Hollywood plot-picking, roll-calling, re-wrapping moribund mainstream affair. You’d wish Burton haven’t made this for Disney, as it feels like a Narnia déjà vu. Visually exuberant yet aesthetically uninspiring. Count this as another failed stab on Carroll.

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