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‘Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of
Dumbledore ’ is a bear to watch
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Jessica Williams, Callum Turner, Jude Law, Fiona Glascott, Dan Fogler and Eddie Redmayne star in a scene from “Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore.”
With tonal problems and more, the magic of Rowling’s world seems to have flown the coop
BY MAKENZIE WHITTLE • For The Bulletin
W
hile not as abhorrently bad as the second film in the series, this latest installment in the “Fantastic Beasts” saga is still a chore to
watch.
I’ll try to keep my personal feelings on J.K. Rowling, the co-screenwriter, producer and author of the “Harry Potter” series, to my-
self and judge the film on its own merits. However, I will admit it’s hard to separate the two, especially as the plot of said movie is, at its core, about
acceptance — and the writer, to put it mildly, has some work to do in that arena.
As with the previous film, “The Crimes of Grindelwald,” this one takes far too much time to say anything and includes too many characters we
never get a chance to truly know or care about over the course of the nearly two-and-a-half hour run time.
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