The students of Hogwarts have put childish things behind them, said Todd McCarthy in Variety. The budding wizards and witches in training are struggling with the first pains of adolescence, not to mention some much darker demons. The last Harry Potter movie, The Prisoner of Azkaban, was dark, but things get even blacker in this fourth installment in the saga—and intense enough to garner a PG-13 rating. Screenwriter Steve Kloves make short work of the book
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