In the film, Harry Potter (played by Daniel Radcliffe) returns to Hogwarts for his fifth year of school. When he gets there, Harry finds that the new Dark Arts teacher is Dolores Umbridge, a manipulative woman who works for the Ministry of Magic. Umbridge quicky takes over the school, and upseats Dumbledore as headmaster. Harry and company form an underground resistance called Dumbledore's Army, and Harry prepares its members to battle against Voldemort's forces.

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix received generally good reviews from critics, with a 77% freshness rating on Rotten Tomatoes and a 71% metascore on Metacritic.

1. "Gone are the childish diversions of Quidditch matches and other jewel-toned visual manifestations of magical thinking, and in their place is an attitude of grim, adult risk taking." — Entertainment Weekly
2. "Harry's triumph or defeat at the hands of the evil Lord Voldemort is sure to replace the Sopranos finale as pop culture's Topic A, making Order of the Phoenix a must-see." — Rolling Stone
3. "Radcliffe measures up to his character; his bold shadings reveal Harry as both a tortured adolescent and an epic hero ready to do battle." — Time
4. "The magic -- movie magic, that is -- is mostly missing in this outing." — The Hollywood Reporter