‘Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone’ turns 20: How well did our movie review age?
The first Harry Potter film, “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone,” hit U.S. theaters on Nov. 16, 2001. USA TODAY is republishing articles from its archives to mark the movie’s 20th anniversary.
Director Chris Columbus vowed to be faithful to J.K. Rowling’s “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone,” and to a certain extent he is. But one can be faithful to a plot without being faithful to the book.