Ranking Every Harry Potter & Wizarding World Film Worst To Best

In retrospect, splitting Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows into two films was a bad idea. If they'd just made a three hour-plus film, it still would've smashed the box office, and that really would've been better.

It's thanks to this split that Deathly Hallows Part One always feels kind of unsatisfying. The film adapts the first two thirds of the book, so it's basically the first two acts of a story without a climactic third act and even though the film does end well, it still ends pretty much out of nowhere.

Nonetheless, Deathly Hallows Part One is still a jolly good effort for the most part and even if it'll most likely leave you wanting more, it has plenty of bite all the same.

The stunning visuals, wonderfully poignant tone and many fantastic individual scenes - most notably, the stunning animated sequence and Dobby's devastating demise - make this a real return-to-form for the series after the terrible previous instalment, and it offers plenty to make up for its shortcomings.

It has those structural issues and there are some smaller problems - Ron abandoning his friends feels pretty unearned (although, to be fair, this never quite felt believable in the book either) and Billy Nighy is completely wasted - but otherwise, this is a thoroughly satisfying penultimate chapter for this most beloved of franchises.