Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald (2018)
It’s a different, better movie whenever she’s on screen.įantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwaldĩ. The best part: The ever-magnetic Samantha Morton, who has a towering screen presence, is just dynamite as Mary Lou Barebone, an anti-witchcraft zealot who’s filled with hate and fear. This is actually the only Wizarding World entry so far to win an Academy Award-for veteran designer Colleen Atwood‘s beautiful costumes.
Fantastic Beasts also strains considerably under the pressure of setting up no less than four announced sequels. You’re just left wishing they had richer, deeper material to work with. The charms that are here are almost entirely courtesy of the talented cast, the most delightful being Dan Fogler, who’s so expressive he looks like a silent movie star. Fantastic Beasts takes place in the same magical universe, but there are no characters to match the most indelible from the original series, and there’s no real hook. The characters are irresistible, the world-building is masterful, and the emotional hook-parents sacrificing themselves for their child-is as gripping as it gets. It’s virtually impossible to not get sucked into Rowling’s original Potter series. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (2016) Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (Warner) 10.