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Critics Consensus: Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald has glimmers of the magic familiar to Harry Potter fans, but the story's spell isn't as strong as earlier installments.
Critic Consensus: Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald has glimmers of the magic familiar to Harry Potter fans, but the story's spell isn't as strong as earlier installments.
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The Crimes of Grindelwald is mostly table-setting, which can't sustain an entire movie-even one serving a fan base as passionate as this one.
There might not be a more gorgeous-looking movie this year than Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald.
The movie is too busy bouncing all over the place, stuffing subplot after subplot into the mix.
"The Crimes of Grindelwald" has one of the biggest third-act reveals in the whole Harry Potter series.
Rowling has surrendered to her maximalist tendencies and so cluttered up the story that you spend far too much time trying to untangle who did what to whom and why.
With its callbacks to the Potter universe and a lovely eye for detail, The Crimes of Grindelwald has bags of intermittent charm and a warm familiarity. But too often, it feels like a beast that's been overburdened.
On that satisfying knife's edge where you can enjoy the fantasy universe but also start to feel genuine grief and fear for the characters.
There's something about this go-around that's less engaging, even on the level of sheer visual sumptuousness.
Jude Law is the Dumbledore that we had all dreamed of. [Full review in Spanish]
Visually brilliant, with right decisions on how to keep catching the spectators, the story surprises with several twists and changes of perspective that try to give some freshness to the setting. [Full Review in Spanish]
...sort of fun at the start, kinda agreeable at the end, but will suck your whimsy dry for most of its runtime.
Though pretty and occasionally very sweet, it's barely a sequel. It's more like seafood extender.
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