Review of Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald (2018) by Barry Hertz for Globe and Mail — 18 Nov 2018
The entire endeavour is so crass, sloppy, and infuriating (especially the “twist” ending, although the film contains no real ending at all) that it treads close to zero-star, brand-killing territory.
But then Jude Law pops up all-too-briefly as a younger, sexier version of Albus Dumbledore, and everything seems mostly right with the Potter-verse. But the magic, it’s fleeting.
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This review of Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald (2018) was written by Barry Hertz and published by Globe and Mail on 18 Nov 2018.
Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald has generally received mixed reviews.
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