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NYPress - Film - Matt Zoller Seitz - Vol. 14, Iss. 51 Many people say the Harry Potter movie represents the first installment in a new generation�s Star Wars, but box-office take aside, I suspect that�s way off-base. With its brisk pace, elegant photography, diamond-hard fantasy characterizations and general aura of lived-in density, Jackson�s film exposes Harry Potter as a competent but uninspiring piece of franchise-building. Fellowship is the new Star Wars because it reverses the equation, reminding us that Star Wars was, in many ways, a flattened-out sci-fi variation on Lord of the Rings. In all the ways that count, it�s a richer, deeper movie than Star Wars (which cribbed from Tolkien) and its countless imitators; it�s richer and deeper because it treats good and evil not as storytelling conceits we�ve all collectively agreed to believe in for entertainment�s sake, but as analogs for our own real-life struggle to be good in a world that constantly tempts us with evils both small and large.