Todd McCarthy is an American film critic. He wrote for Variety for 31 years as its chief film critic until 2010. In October of that year he joined The Hollywood Reporter where he subsequently became chief film critic... (wikipedia)
Newell tries to find the emotional reality in material that, until now, has been used more to showcase fantasy and wonder.
Guy Ritchie shoots a blank with Revolver ,
Film-makers keep the narrative screws fastened tight, which gives The Goblet of Fire an intensity that rarely flags,
The specter of death, or at least the end of something, hovers over the enterprise, but in the lightest possible way, as if to ignore it is the only possible policy.