Harry Potter: Every Wizarding World Movie Ranked Worst To Best

For any fans who didn't read the books, The Half-Blood Prince will forever be remembered as the second gut-punch after the death of Sirius Black with the murder of Albus Dumbledore. This was the escalation towards the Deathly Hallows, and it was always right that David Yates would make it a thoroughly grim experience.

Michael Gambon's performance as Dumbledore is great throughout, Jim Broadbent is a genius who is simultaneously stubborn and penitent and the final sequence might well be the greatest of the entire franchise, along with the Battle of Hogwarts.

The Good

Everything from Dumbledore taking Harry to the cave onwards is sublime story-telling, including one of the most terrifying sequences in all of cinema, let alone in just this franchise. And the addition of Broadbent as Horace Slughorn was a masterful stroke.

The Bad

Unfortunately, it's a little slow between it's strong opening and it's wonderful ending, and it's a little harder than it should be to get invested in Malfoy's story, given how pushed away it is.