Yates' pacing wins it over.

Rating: 8/10 (26 November 2011)

Director David Yates replaces Mike Newell in the directing position on the Potter films and gives the Potter series a victory. This book was the longest, which makes it incredible that Yates squashed this down into the shortest of the film adaptations. It does not feel squashed together though, Yates understands our need for a good pace and that is what he incorporates into his filmmaking here. His direction is not as fragmented and uneven as Newell's and he does everything Newell tried to do in The Goblet of Fire, which is getting down the emotions of the characters while telling his fictional fantasy tale. The Potter series may have found a director yet, other than Cuaron.