Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix: Director David Yates improves on its source material, paring J.K. Rowling's sprawling novel down to its essence while losing none of its urgency. Our young wizard (Daniel Radcliffe) deals not only with evil Lord Voldemort (Ralph Fiennes), but with a mad-hatter bureaucrat (Imelda Staunton) who's seized power at Hogwarts.
- MARC SAVLOV
Interview: Steve Buscemi remakes a film by Theo Van Gogh as a tribute to the assassinated Dutch filmmaker, but the improbable scenario falls flat. A journalist (Buscemi) interviews a TV star (Sienna Miller) during an evening of mutual emotional cruelty.
-JOSH ROSENBLATT
