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

By Mark Dujsik (2,093) for Mark Reviews Movies (2,037) on 15 Nov 2018

Being a wizard in these movies used to be fun. Here, it's just a lot of waiting for something to happen…

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

By Matthew Dougherty (34) for The Filtered Lens (17) on 15 Nov 2018

The Crimes of Grindelwald is hardly the first Harry Potter movie to suffer from rushing past plot points, but it is the first to seem bored…

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

By Rohan Naahar (197) for Hindustan Times (753) on 15 Nov 2018

The Crimes of Grindelwald is at once dense with lore, yet strangely lean on plot…

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

By Fico Cangiano (235) for CineXpress (235) on 15 Nov 2018

An entertaining next chapter that doesn't fully meet its predecessor's magic. [Full review Spanish]…

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

By Mario Alegre (61) for Próxima Tanda (54) on 15 Nov 2018

More than Act 2 of the proposed five, the film feels like an extended intermission, lacking focus, narrative impulse and any sense of urgency…

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

By Nell Minow (2,357) for Movie Mom (753) on 15 Nov 2018

Instead of a missing puzzle piece in a complex, thoroughly imagined world, it is more like fan service, much to look at and enjoy but I can't…

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

By Brian Viner (589) for Daily Mail (UK) (1,461) on 15 Nov 2018

It is largely and regrettably devoid of the wit that made the first film such a joy, and the fantastic beasts themselves too often seem like…

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

By Leah Pickett (132) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 15 Nov 2018

The Crimes of Grindelwald feels hollow and disconnected, like it could have been made by anyone with a rudimentary knowledge of Rowling's wizarding…

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

By Rendy Jones (321) for Rendy Reviews (320) on 15 Nov 2018

You want us to sit in for three more of these? You must be riddikulus…

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

By Javier Ocaña (196) for El Pais (Spain) (511) on 15 Nov 2018

As it already happened to the first movie of the series (it) runs out of steam soon, at least as a compact story, carried with insubstantial…

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

By Rashid Irani (192) for Hindustan Times (753) on 15 Nov 2018

so over-plotted, it's almost incomprehensible…

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By Neil Soans (73) for The Times of India (879) on 15 Nov 2018

It appears the training wheels have come off, promising that the next entry in the Fantastic Beasts saga will go full throttle into J.K…

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

By Rick Bentley (466) for Tribune News Service (1,102) on 15 Nov 2018

If you are among those who possess no such knowledge, your only hope is to take a scholar with you and then spend the movie asking multiple…

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

By David Medsker (361) for Bullz-Eye.com (1,091) on 15 Nov 2018

If there are going to be three more Fantastic Beasts films, solving the Newt problem needs to be their top priority…

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

By Matt Donato (975) for We Got This Covered (2,391) on 15 Nov 2018

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

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

By David Levesley (2) for GQ Magazine [UK] (132) on 15 Nov 2018

Nothing seems to matter and yet everyone tells us how much is at stake…

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

By Dan Kois (100) for Slate (2,081) on 15 Nov 2018

Congratulations to Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald for being the first flat-out terrible product of the Harry Potter expanded universe…

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

By Bilge Ebiri (1,050) for New York Magazine/Vulture (3,519) on 15 Nov 2018

It’s enough to make me wonder if this series might still have a few decent tricks left up its sleeve. We’ll see…

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

By Bob Bloom (1,124) for Journal and Courier (Lafayette, IN) (1,017) on 15 Nov 2018

Somehow, and perhaps, by magic, the movie does indeed entertain - though you really need to be familiar with the writings of J.K…

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

By Jim Slotek (879) for Original Cin (1,156) on 15 Nov 2018

Grindelwald is a movie that seems to want to recreate the Potter universe and does it in the most plodding way, crowding it with characters…

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