Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald

Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald delivers a strong follow-up with great performances from its leading cast.

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Sequel is exciting and enchanting, but also frustratingly convoluted

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The sequel to Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them doesn’t actually move the story forward much

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‘Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald’ rediscovers that Potter magic

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Darker, bolder 'Fantastic Beasts' sequel goes all in on Johnny Depp, 'Potter' magic

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The ‘Fantastic Beasts’ sequel goes surprisingly dark, with a shocking reveal at the end

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Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald is a fantastical film with too much story to tell

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There's not much magic in the plotty, reference-heavy Fantastic Beasts sequel

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The story being set in 1927, Rowling doesn’t skimp on the fascist overtones.

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Hogwarts professor Albus Dumbledore (Jude Law) enlists the help of former pupil Newt Scamander (Eddie Redmayne) to take down Gellert Grindelwald (Johnny Depp), a dark wizard who has escaped incarceration and is hell-bent on raising pure-blood wizards to rule over No-Majs (Muggles).

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Second of J.K. Rowling’s Potter-prequel franchise doubles up on the plotting and gives us a blond Johnny Depp — but it’s a fans-only affair

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JK Rowling’s creative imagination is as fertile as ever, but the second film in the series is bogged down by franchise detail

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While no longer that person, I’m at least primed to return to that realm again and see the sights. It’s sad that Fantastic Beasts pulls off what I assumed was impossible: It turned an imaginative fantasy world into dreary wallpaper.

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Eddie Redmayne and Johnny Depp commence the war of the cheekbones

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It’s an embarrassment of riches, and it’s suffocating.

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The “Harry Potter” prequel “Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald” is a big-budget, holiday-timed blockbuster about ... racism, which may not exactly be the joyful, escapist entertainment families are looking for this time of year.

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Real magic is in short supply in this cluttered expansion of the "Harry Potter" franchise.

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The gravest case of prequel-itis since The Phantom Menace

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Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald is two-plus overstuffed hours worth of too many characters fighting for screen time that no enchantment can salvage.

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