Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009) poster
2009 · fantasy · adventure · family

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

Directed by David Yates2h 33m2009
ElsewhereIMDb7.6654kRT83%Metacritic78TMDB7.721k
  • sombre
  • intense
  • inventive
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Sombre, steady, measured fantasy / adventure, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, epic, measured, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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Dumbledore tries to prepare Harry for the final battle with Voldemort while Death Eaters wreak havoc in both Muggle and Wizard worlds.

Our read · Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009) reads as a sombre, steady, inventive fantasy · adventure · family entry — measured in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.

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You want teen wizards, budding romances and gathering storm before war.

ends bittersweetit stays with youa slow buildgrips by minute 20attention 3/5earns its length
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around
Heads-upchild peril

Skip it tonightYou want relentless action without school or romance subplots.

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Each axis is hand-scored — not derived from votes or genre averages. The marker shows where this film sits; the gradient fill uses the film's own cinematography palette.

Mood · HeavyCosy
Pacing · Slow-burnKinetic
Intensity · GentleExtreme
Weirdness · ConventionalSurreal
Hope · NihilisticRedemptive
Stakes · IntimateEpic
Humour · NoneBroad
Reality · GroundedFantastical
Density · SparseTwisty
Warmth · ColdTender
Auteur · TransparentSignature
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