Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
July 15, 2009 in theaters
As Voldemort's forces move openly against the wizarding world, Dumbledore recruits Harry to help recover a crucial memory that holds the key to defeating the Dark Lord — while a mysterious annotated potions textbook pulls Harry into dangerous territory. The sixth installment sets up the final confrontation across the two-part conclusion.
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"Do not pity the dead. Pity the living."
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Jim Broadbent based Horace Slughorn on a real teacher he had as a child who had an obvious habit of collecting talented students.
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The most melancholy film in the series and, in its quieter passages, the best acted. The sixth film is less concerned with event than with atmosphere -- the slow approach of something irreversible -- and that restraint produces sequences of genuine emotional power. Jim Broadbent's Slughorn is precisely the right kind of addition at exactly the right moment. A film that earns its ending by taking the time to make you care what it costs.
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