Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part II Reviews

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• winds the series up in a most-satisfying fashion

  by Bill Goodykoontz [Arizona Republic ]

• turns out to be everything a summer blockbuster should be but rarely is - a whip-smart, slam-bang piece of entertainment

  by Lou Lumenick [New York Post ]

• this is more than just a movie: It's a pop culture occasion

  by Glenn Kenny [MSN Movies ]

• this is a terrific, smartly designed adolescent adventure, visually rich, narratively satisfying, and bound to resonate for years to come

  by Liam Lacey [Globe and Mail ]

• the simplest, offering a straightforward, thrill-a-minute capper to one of the fantasy realm's longest and most convoluted plots

  by Amy Biancolli [Houston Chronicle ]

• surges ahead with tremendous urgency, superb spectacle and powerful, even overwhelming emotion

  by Justin Chang [Variety ]

• makes an excellent action counterpoint to Part 1's many chess moves

  by Peter Howell [Toronto Star ]

• it's wonderful

  by Elizabeth Weitzman [NY Daily News ]

• it is a rich, satisfying and altogether wonderful finale

  by Stephen Whitty [Newark Star-Ledger ]

• extraordinarily fun, and now the decade-long saga has reached its grand finale. The best has been saved for the last

  by Claudia Puig [USA Today ]

• ends with an epilogue that puts a lump in your throat and makes you want to watch them all again from the beginning

  by Colin Covert [Minneapolis Star Tribune ]

• emotionally charged and morally deft end to a series that has never shied away from deep and aching meaning

  by Lisa Kennedy [Denver Post ]

• as satisfying and emotionally intense - frightening, sad, and ultimately comforting - as it is visually grand

  Review rate : A- by Lisa Schwarzbaum [Entertainment Weekly ]
• Reviewed by James Berardinelli [ReelViews ]
• Reviewed by Peter Travers [Rolling Stone ]
• Reviewed by Carrie Rickey [Philadelphia Inquirer ]

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