It depends on what you're talking about.
If it's 'most faithful to canon', PS/SS.
Best characterization? PS/SS.
Capturing the essence of the books? PoA.
I did hate PoA. The second half. The rest was brilliant, even if it wasn't faithful, and even if Kloves has yet again made Ron a blubbering buffoon and comic relief. And the only reason I hated the second half was because of Mary Sue!Hermione. I mean, looking at that half of the movie, they might as well have called the film 'Hermione 'Mary Sue' Granger and the Prisoner of Azkaban'.
Enough of a 'Purist's rantings.
PoA did get the feeling and tone of the book right, unlike the first two films. In that essence, it was the best movie. But then I remember the 'other half', and I remember how Hermione was Hermione and Ron was Ron in the first film, and not 'Hermione-Sue' and 'Buffoon Ron, the comic relief'.
On the other hand, Hermione was a bit of a 'Sue in PS/SS (the movie), with the Devil's Snare, and all. Oh well.
And on the other other hand, I was veeerrry happy with the amounts of R/Hr in PoA.
Even if they didn't like each other in that way, at the time.
I'll still go with PS/SS, though.
(And movie four is not going to be in two parts- before he left HP, Cuaron talked Newell into making it as one movie, with no intermissions (I think), or anything. Which was stupid, in my opinion, as now we've found out that they're cutting the Dursley's, and probably cutting the Quidditch World Cup, too. >:O)
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