Compared to the previous entry, this was rather boring but the world building was pretty cool. The teachers at Hogwarts are grossly incompetent.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 12, 2025

It's a bit overlong and drags at times but it sets up some really amazing things for future films. Also, Ralph Fiennes and Alan Rickman are fantastic as always.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 12, 2025

Tri-wizard cups may take centre stage in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, but British director Mike Newell pushes the movie franchise further into adult territory and makes entry essential.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Jul 11, 2024

[Director Mike] Newell brings a distinctively British sense of low key, wry humor to the spectacle without losing the increasingly serious dimensions of the drama, and he brings out marvelous shades of personality from our evolving young heroes.

| Jan 6, 2024

...a woefully uneven installment that feels, for the most part, as though it should be a good hour shorter...

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Dec 13, 2021

It's increasingly evident that seven books and as many as eight theatrical adaptations fuel the need for too much filler subplots or nonessential side characters.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Sep 29, 2020

More precious than a Golden Snitch in a game of Quidditch, this is one of the Must See films of the year.

| Nov 13, 2019

Good film directed for a teenage audience in which not only is magic taught but also how stereotypes affect it while the film itself recreates some British stereotypes. [Review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 11, 2019

For the first time, the stakes of this battle of good and evil become painfully evident.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 5, 2019

It feels rushed and there are definitely the most plotholes in this entry in the series. Still, when it does work it really works.

| Original Score: B- | Apr 4, 2019

Goblet of Fire is great, very watchable and re-watchable.

| Jan 26, 2018

Where Newell really scores is in taking a leaf out of Peter Jackson's book and cranking up the fear factor.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 8, 2014

For those like me who are outside but sympathetic to the faith, it looks like another handsomely made, good-natured and high-spirited family movie, which is dramatically stymied through being locked within school grounds.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 8, 2014

For the first time, adults might actually enjoy a Harry Potter film as much as children.

| Dec 8, 2014

Goblet is really just a glorified, 157-minute teaser trailer, an empty epic of proportions that truly stagger.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Dec 8, 2014

The adolescent subplot is treated sweetly by Newell. The awkward dances and dating faux pas at the school ball feel like additions from some other, less mythic series, and form a welcome respite from the intense magic-making of the rest of the film.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Dec 8, 2014

Much of the credit goes to Radcliffe and his co-stars, who have become better actors with each film. They have become increasingly adept at conveying great emotion as each film demands more of them.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Dec 8, 2014

I think this is the best Potter film yet, for one simple reason: it's not like a Harry Potter film.

| Dec 8, 2014

In its last third, The Goblet of Fire builds to a climax of such overpowering dread that you might just forget the rest. Harry grows up in an instant, and the film does, too.

| Dec 8, 2014

The acting is stronger than ever in this fourth installment.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Dec 8, 2014