Coming Wednesday to a theater near you

Anne Thompson of Variety called Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince "just about the best-made picture I've seen in many a moon." She also thinks it has a better chance than Public Enemies of being one of the summer films that could wind up on Oscar's list of 10 best picture nominees. "This Potter," Thompson writes, "is as elegantly designed as a Pixar movie. Its tech credits are outstanding: period production design and costumes, cinematography, and visual effects (the quidditch matches are stunning)."

I'm not that high on the Harry Potter series (truth be told, I was also not that high on the Lord of the Rings movies), but this one is beginning to capture my interest.