The Village Voice, November 16th, 2005
HARRY POTTER AND THE GOBLET OF FIRE
Directed by Mike Newell
Warner Bros., opens November 18
GANG OF FOUR
Get witch or die trying: Dense and extremely weird, Goblet has no drinking problems
It begins in nightmare and ends in a labyrinth, a shape right out of Borges. Along the way, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, the fourth filmed installment of J.K. Rowling's still-unfolding boy-wizard saga, pulls out all the stops, relentlessly spinning adolescent terrors into metaphor: whiplash teleportation, dragons and disguises, octopoid nasties, screaming golden eggs, and a clammy-palmed interlu...
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