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By Martin Thomas (44) for Double Toasted (87) on 16 Nov 2018

It should be Newt's story but they make it so much about all the side characters... it ends up being almost nobody's story…

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By Jeremy Jahns (155) for JeremyJahns.com (155) on 16 Nov 2018

It's not icing on the cake -- the cake is on the icing…

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By Gary Wolcott (857) for KXL-FM (Portland, OR) (39) on 16 Nov 2018

Movie two in a five flick series. Really? Five before we get resolution? Oh, goodie. To this movie in particular, it is much better than the first…

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By Chris Bumbray (988) for JoBlo's Movie Emporium (1,959) on 16 Nov 2018

A dark and grim turn for the franchise that's already splitting critics…

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By Matt Rodriguez (19) for Shakefire (19) on 16 Nov 2018

An unnecessarily complex and bloated film that even the most die-hard of Harry Potter fans will find difficulty enjoying…

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By Josh Terry (603) for Deseret News (Salt Lake City) (1) on 16 Nov 2018

None of these subplots are crippling individually, but their cumulative effect easily distracts from the film's underdeveloped core…

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By Jim Judy (1,199) for Screen It! (1,437) on 16 Nov 2018

Interesting and entertaining enough to warrant a minor passing grade. (Full Content Review for Parents - Violence, etc. - also Available)…

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By Kurt Loder (858) for Reason Online (497) on 16 Nov 2018

Dark by design, and grim and miserable-looking from end to end…

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By Rebecca Murray (740) for Showbiz Junkies (143) on 16 Nov 2018

A series of disjointed events surrounded by some wild special effects and scrambled together into a two-hour running time…

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By Vikram Murthi (112) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 16 Nov 2018

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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By Jo Berry (104) for Movies4Kids (46) on 16 Nov 2018

The promotional campaign asks audiences to 'protect the secrets', but you'll be so focused on working out who means what to whom that you won't…

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By Sarah Ksiazek (3) for The MacGuffin (26) on 16 Nov 2018

Fans of this series know where all these Fantastic Beasts films are heading and this film is an impressive and thrilling stepping stone to that end…

Review of Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald (2018)

By Korey Coleman (43) for Double Toasted (87) on 16 Nov 2018

It's trying hard to live up to epicness... You can't force epicness…

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By Kyle Wilson (16) for The Nerd Repository (15) on 16 Nov 2018

The beasts are once again fantastic, but the rest of the film is a dark, slow-moving prelude to war…

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By John Lui (420) for The Straits Times (Singapore) (616) on 16 Nov 2018

The seizure-inducing cuts and crazy angles felt as though one were taking a torture test designed to weed out weaklings from an astronaut training…

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By Tom Santilli (137) for AXS.com (137) on 16 Nov 2018

the real crime here is that we all deserve better...from this franchise, from J.K. Rowling, and just in general…

Review of Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald (2018)

By Alan French (85) for We Bought a Blog (53) on 16 Nov 2018

Sadly, Crimes of Grindelwald does not work on its own merits…

Review of Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald (2018)

By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 16 Nov 2018

Dash it all, even the devoted will likely struggle with the reams of expository talk and gobs of unearned feeling and scads of largely pointless…

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By Deirdre Crimmins (265) for HighDef Digest (76) on 16 Nov 2018

While we know who will ultimately survive, it still feels like a placeholder…

Review of Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald (2018)

By James Berardinelli (4,524) for ReelViews (4,523) on 16 Nov 2018

Despite being light in the story department, The Crimes of Grindelwald offers plenty of small pleasures and tightens up the linkage between…

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