Storyline
Professor Albus Dumbledore knows the powerful, dark wizard Gellert Grindelwald is moving to seize control of the wizarding world. Unable to stop him alone, he entrusts magizoologist Newt Scamander to lead an intrepid team of wizards and witches. They soon encounter an array of old and new beasts as they clash with Grindelwald's growing legion of followers.
Directors
Cast
Jude Law, Dan Fogler, Fiona Glascott, Mads Mikkelsen, Richard Coyle, Jan Pohl, Eddie Redmayne, Hebe Beardsall, Sean Talo, Ezra Miller, Katherine Waterston, David Bertrand, Matthias Brenner, Jessica Williams, Ramona Kunze-Libnow, Noor Dillan-Night, Poppy Corby-Tuech, Callum Turner, Alison Sudol, Paul Low-Hang, Dave Wong, Oliver Masucci, William Nadylam, Victoria Yeates, Maja Bloom, Peter Simonischek, Jeremy Azis, Valerie Pachner, Maria Fernanda Cândido, Aleksandr Kuznetsov, Cara Mahoney, Wilf Scolding, Kazeem Tosin Amore, Manuel Klein, Lucas Englander, Jacqueline Boatswain, Stefan Race, Jessica Cartledge, Rahda Sthanakiya, Isabelle Coverdale, Dónal Finn, Nick Davison, Emilia Karlsson
Trailer
Reviews
75
It can be said, with some certainty, that ‘Fantastic Beasts’ has finally found its footing. This latest entry is the most fun and most buoyant in the relatively young series. And it’s enough to make you actually look forward to a subsequent installment (should there be one) instead of actively dreading it.
70
This film has enough stunning special effects and adorable baby animals to keep you entertained for 2½ hours.
60
It’s good-natured entertainment, though there is still something weightless and formless about the narrative.
50
Slant Magazine
With this film, nuance seems to have disapparated from the wizarding world altogether.
50
The series’ third outing, Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore, falls into precisely the same traps as its predecessor, offering up an unwieldy, mostly unsettling mash-up of adult themes and childish whimsy, made still more inscrutable by too many subplots, too many characters, and a tone that veers wildly off-course at every possible turn.
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