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  1. Harry, Ron and Hermione continue their quest to vanquish the evil Voldemort once and for all. Just as things begin to look hopeless for the young wizards, Harry discovers a trio of magical objects that endow him with powers to rival Voldemort's formidable skills.

    The sides of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2

    • A school becomes a battlefield
    • The last duel
    • Seven films of answers

    Good for you if

    • you want a final battle with everything thrown in.
    • you like goodbyes to characters you grew up with.
    • you like sincere words about love and loyalty said in the middle of a war.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't take grief tonight. This is a war film, and it has its losses.
    • you want the cosy Hogwarts of the early films. This one turns it into a battlefield.

    About: sacrifice · death · love

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  2. Dumbledore tries to prepare Harry for the final battle with Voldemort while Death Eaters wreak havoc in both Muggle and Wizard worlds.

    The sides of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

    • Teenage crushes at Hogwarts
    • Memories of a young Voldemort
    • A cave and a terrible potion

    Good for you if

    • you like Dumbledore and Harry searching old memories for young Tom Riddle's secret.
    • you like the romance mix-ups and a love potion.
    • you like the friends growing up between the battles.

    Bad for you if

    • two and a half hours is too long for one evening.
    • you want big battles. This one is quieter.

    About: the past · love · choices

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  3. When his name emerges from the Goblet of Fire, Harry Potter becomes a competitor in a grueling battle for glory among three wizarding schools. Signs of Voldemort's return emerge as Harry's friends help him prepare for the Triwizard Tournament.

    The sides of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

    • A dangerous tournament
    • Dragons, a lake and a maze
    • First crushes at the ball

    Good for you if

    • you like seeing other wizarding schools arrive.
    • you like trials where a teenager could actually die.
    • you like a dragon chase over the rooftops.

    Bad for you if

    • over two and a half hours is long for young viewers.
    • the ending turns frightening, too much for younger kids.

    About: growing up · danger · rivalry

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  4. Harry, Ron and Hermione walk away from their last year at Hogwarts to find and destroy the remaining Horcruxes, putting an end to Voldemort's bid for immortality. But with Harry's beloved Dumbledore dead and Voldemort's unscrupulous Death Eaters on the loose, the world is more dangerous than ever.

    The sides of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1

    • Three friends on the run
    • A tent in the middle of nowhere
    • A story of three brothers

    Good for you if

    • you like the friendship tested away from school.
    • you like a quieter, wandering chapter.
    • you like a dark chapter, with the three friends on the run and nowhere safe.

    Bad for you if

    • you want action. Much of it is waiting in the wild.
    • you'd rather not commit to nearly two and a half hours, then Part 2, to see how it ends.

    About: friendship · loneliness · hope

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  5. Harry Potter has lived under the stairs at his aunt and uncle's house his whole life. But on his 11th birthday, he learns he's a powerful wizard—with a place waiting for him at the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. As he learns to harness his newfound powers with the help of the school's kindly headmaster, Harry uncovers the truth about his parents' deaths—and about the villain who's to blame.

    The sides of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

    • Discovering a school of magic
    • Three friends against the rules
    • An orphan finding where he belongs

    Good for you if

    • you love a world full of details: moving staircases, talking portraits, a hidden platform.
    • you want to feel like a child discovering magic for the first time.
    • you want a warm film to watch under a blanket.

    Bad for you if

    • two and a half hours is long for a family evening.
    • you want something darker. This first one is a children's story.

    About: belonging · friendship · courage

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  6. Cars fly, trees fight back, and a mysterious house-elf comes to warn Harry Potter at the start of his second year at Hogwarts. Adventure and danger await when bloody writing on a wall announces: The Chamber Of Secrets Has Been Opened. To save Hogwarts will require all of Harry, Ron and Hermione's magical abilities and courage.

    The sides of Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

    • A mystery inside the school
    • A flying car
    • Spiders in the forest

    Good for you if

    • you want to go back to Hogwarts and see more of it.
    • you like a whodunit with children as detectives.
    • you want a cosy film for a rainy day.

    Bad for you if

    • over two and a half hours is long for young viewers.
    • giant spiders and a snake in the dark are too much for you or the kids.

    About: prejudice · friendship · courage

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  7. Harry Potter's life is in danger once more as dangerous wizard Sirius Black has escaped from Azkaban Prison and is heading to Hogwarts.

    The sides of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

    • An escaped prisoner coming for Harry
    • A time-turner and secrets
    • A darker, colder Hogwarts

    Good for you if

    • you like the wizarding world getting stranger and bigger.
    • you like a wintry Hogwarts, dark and misty.
    • you like a story where the truth isn't what everyone believes.

    Bad for you if

    • hooded creatures that drain happiness will scare you or the kids.
    • you want a plot you can follow without effort. Small clues, like Hermione's impossible timetable, all matter later.

    About: fear · family · the truth

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  8. The lives of five young villagers change forever when a strange and powerful woman arrives, claiming one of them is the child of an ancient prophecy with the power to tip the balance between Light and Dark forever. They must choose whether to trust this stranger – and each other – with the fate of the world before the Dark One breaks out of His prison, and the Last Battle begins.

    The sides of The Wheel of Time

    • Five young villagers from the Two Rivers
    • A powerful woman of a magic order called the Aes Sedai
    • A prophecy about the Dragon Reborn

    Good for you if

    • you like a huge fantasy world with its own magic, orders and history.
    • you like a quest that starts in a small village and grows to the fate of the world.
    • you want big battles and magic you can feel on screen.

    Bad for you if

    • you lose track of many characters, kingdoms and factions.
    • you can't take bloody battles and monsters tearing people apart.

    About: destiny · good and evil · power

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  9. Game of Thrones 2011

    Series

    Seven noble families fight for control of the mythical land of Westeros. Friction between the houses leads to full-scale war. All while a very ancient evil awakens in the farthest north. Amidst the war, a neglected military order of misfits, the Night's Watch, is all that stands between the realms of men and icy horrors beyond.

    The sides of Game of Thrones

    • Power games and scheming
    • Nobody is safe
    • Dragons, battles and a huge world
    • Families at war
    • Characters you change your mind about

    Good for you if

    • you like following a dozen families and their schemes at once.
    • you like a show where loyalties shift and no one is ever safe.
    • you like schemers fighting over the Iron Throne, where a whisper can matter more than an army.

    Bad for you if

    • brutal deaths and battle wounds ruin a show for you.
    • you'd rather skip sex scenes, or you're watching with others.
    • eight seasons is more than you want to start.

    About: power · loyalty · family · war

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  10. Frodo Baggins and the other members of the Fellowship continue on their sacred quest to destroy the One Ring--but on separate paths. Their destinies lie at two towers--Orthanc Tower in Isengard, where the corrupt wizard Saruman awaits, and Sauron's fortress at Barad-dur, deep within the dark lands of Mordor.

    The sides of The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

    • The siege of Helm's Deep
    • Gollum talking to himself
    • A fellowship split in three

    Good for you if

    • you want a night battle in the rain that lasts and lasts.
    • you want more of this world: talking trees, horse lords, the marshes.
    • you like following three stories at once.

    Bad for you if

    • three hours, in the middle of a trilogy, is too much for you.
    • you roll your eyes at big, sincere speeches. Sam's speech about the good left in this world is one.

    About: hope · temptation · war

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  11. Young hobbit Frodo Baggins, after inheriting a mysterious ring from his uncle Bilbo, must leave his home in order to keep it from falling into the hands of its evil creator. Along the way, a fellowship is formed to protect the ringbearer and make sure that the ring arrives at its final destination: Mt. Doom, the only place where it can be destroyed.

    The sides of The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

    • A small hero with a huge task
    • A world with its own history and languages
    • A fellowship that may not hold

    Good for you if

    • you love a world so detailed it feels like it existed before the film.
    • you want landscapes that make you want to walk for days.
    • you like battles with armies and monsters.

    Bad for you if

    • three hours is too much, and it's only the first part.
    • you need it to move. There is a lot of walking.

    About: temptation · friendship · courage · power

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  12. Gellert Grindelwald has escaped imprisonment and has begun gathering followers to his cause—elevating wizards above all non-magical beings. The only one capable of putting a stop to him is the wizard he once called his closest friend, Albus Dumbledore. However, Dumbledore will need to seek help from the wizard who had thwarted Grindelwald once before, his former student Newt Scamander, who agrees to help, unaware of the dangers that lie ahead. Lines are drawn as love and loyalty are tested, even among the truest friends and family, in an increasingly divided wizarding world.

    The sides of Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald

    • A dark wizard escaping
    • Paris in the 1920s
    • A young Dumbledore

    Good for you if

    • you like more of the wizarding world's past.
    • you like magical Paris and a cemetery in flames.

    Bad for you if

    • you lose track when there are too many characters and plots.
    • you want a story that ends here. This one stops on a cliffhanger for the next film.

    About: power · family secrets · choosing sides

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  13. Avatar Korra, a headstrong, rebellious, feisty young woman who continually challenges and breaks with tradition, is on her quest to become a fully realized Avatar. In this story, the Avatar struggles to find balance within herself.

    The sides of The Legend of Korra

    • A headstrong young Avatar in a big city
    • Martial arts that bend water, fire, earth and air
    • A masked rebel who wants to take bending away

    Good for you if

    • you like fights built on martial arts and the elements.
    • you like a 1920s style city with airships, radio and spirits.
    • you like a young woman learning she can't win everything with her fists.

    Bad for you if

    • you don't watch animated series.
    • you roll your eyes at sincere talk about balance and the spirit world.

    About: balance · growing up · revolution

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  14. As armies mass for a final battle that will decide the fate of the world--and powerful, ancient forces of Light and Dark compete to determine the outcome--one member of the Fellowship of the Ring is revealed as the noble heir to the throne of the Kings of Men. Yet, the sole hope for triumph over evil lies with a brave hobbit, Frodo, who, accompanied by his loyal friend Sam and the hideous, wretched Gollum, ventures deep into the very dark heart of Mordor on his seemingly impossible quest to destroy the Ring of Power.​

    The sides of The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

    • The biggest battles of the trilogy
    • Two hobbits climbing a mountain
    • Saying goodbye

    Good for you if

    • you want the siege of Minas Tirith and the charge of the Rohirrim on a big screen.
    • you like an ending that takes its time to say goodbye.
    • you've loved this world and want to see it through.

    Bad for you if

    • over three hours, with several endings, is too much for you.
    • you roll your eyes at big, sincere speeches. Aragorn rallies an army at the Black Gate.

    About: friendship · sacrifice · home

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  15. Bilbo Baggins, a hobbit enjoying his quiet life, is swept into an epic quest by Gandalf the Grey and thirteen dwarves who seek to reclaim their mountain home from Smaug, the dragon.

    The sides of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

    • A homebody dragged into an adventure
    • Thirteen dwarves at the dinner table
    • Riddles in the dark

    Good for you if

    • you want to go back to Middle-earth.
    • you like a lighter, cosier tale than The Lord of the Rings.
    • you like dwarves singing and washing the dishes.

    Bad for you if

    • nearly three hours, for the first of three films, is too much.
    • it takes a long time before the journey really starts.

    About: home · courage · greed

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  16. Following Smaug's attack on Laketown, Bilbo and the dwarves try to defend Erebor's mountain of treasure from others who claim it: the men of the ruined Laketown and the elves of Mirkwood. Meanwhile an army of Orcs led by Azog the Defiler is marching on Erebor, fueled by the rise of the dark lord Sauron. Dwarves, elves and men must unite, and the hope for Middle-Earth falls into Bilbo's hands.

    The sides of The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies

    • A dragon attacking a town
    • A king sick with gold
    • Armies meeting at a mountain

    Good for you if

    • you want one long battle with every army of Middle-earth.
    • you like duels on frozen waterfalls.
    • you like a fight over a mountain of gold that turns allies against each other.

    Bad for you if

    • you lose track when the cast keeps growing. Thirteen dwarves, elves, men, orcs and a wizard share one battlefield.
    • two and a half hours of fighting is too much for you.

    About: greed · loyalty · war

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  17. Yuta Okkotsu is a nervous high school student who is suffering from a serious problem—his childhood friend Rika has turned into a curse and won't leave him alone. Since Rika is no ordinary curse, his plight is noticed by Satoru Gojo, a teacher at Jujutsu High, a school where fledgling exorcists learn how to combat curses. Gojo convinces Yuta to enroll, but can he learn enough in time to confront the curse that haunts him?

    The sides of Jujutsu Kaisen 0

    • A shy student haunted by his dead childhood friend
    • A school for young exorcists
    • A curse fighting for the boy it loves

    Good for you if

    • you like fast, hand-drawn sorcery fights in the streets of Tokyo.
    • you like a promise between two children that outlives one of them.
    • you like a hidden world of curses, sorcerers and cursed energy.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't stand bodies torn apart by curses.
    • you don't watch anime.

    About: grief · love · belonging

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  18. The Irishman 2019

    Film

    Pennsylvania, 1956. Frank Sheeran, a war veteran of Irish origin who works as a truck driver, accidentally meets mobster Russell Bufalino. Once Frank becomes his trusted man, Bufalino sends him to Chicago with the task of helping Jimmy Hoffa, a powerful union leader related to organized crime, with whom Frank will maintain a close friendship for nearly twenty years.

    The sides of The Irishman

    • A hitman looking back from a nursing home
    • Jimmy Hoffa
    • Decades of the mob

    Good for you if

    • you like a slow, reflective gangster story.
    • you like legends acting together one last time.
    • you like an ending about loneliness and regret.

    Bad for you if

    • three and a half hours is far too long for you.
    • you want a fast gangster film.

    About: loyalty · ageing · regret

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  19. In a dystopian society where the Capitol forces each district to send two young tributes to fight to the death in a televised spectacle, a girl volunteers to take her sister’s place, setting the stage for a struggle of survival and defiance.

    The sides of The Hunger Games

    • Survival in the arena
    • Peeta or Gale
    • A rebellion against the Capitol
    • The show around the games

    Good for you if

    • you like a hunt where anyone could die next.
    • you like a heroine who survives with a bow and her wits.
    • you like a girl who takes her little sister's place.

    Bad for you if

    • teenagers killing teenagers is too much for you.
    • two hours and twenty minutes is long for your evening, and it's only the first film.

    About: survival · spectacle · rebellion

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  20. Legacies 2018

    Series

    In a place where young witches, vampires, and werewolves are nurtured to be their best selves in spite of their worst impulses, Klaus Mikaelson’s daughter, 17-year-old Hope Mikaelson, Alaric Saltzman’s twins, Lizzie and Josie Saltzman, among others, come of age into heroes and villains at The Salvatore School for the Young and Gifted.

    The sides of Legacies

    • A boarding school for witches, vampires and werewolves
    • Hope Mikaelson, daughter of Klaus
    • The Saltzman twins, Lizzie and Josie

    Good for you if

    • you like a school where every student has a supernatural secret.
    • you like teenagers working out whether they'll be heroes or villains.
    • you like the students of the Salvatore School looking out for each other.

    Bad for you if

    • you roll your eyes at heartfelt talks about not being defined by your darkest side.
    • you want your vampire stories dark and adult.

    About: belonging · family legacy · growing up

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