Review of Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald (2018) by Dagmar B — 05 Jan 2019

Visually competent, but everything else is a mess, esp finally the characters and the convoluted plot.

This review of Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald (2018) was written by Dagmar B on 05 Jan 2019.

Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald has generally received mixed reviews.

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