![]() ![]() This content is based on data from multiple web sources. Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 Christy Lemire – The Secrets of Dumbledore feels overstuffed as it lumbers from one plotline to another. Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 Chris Hewitt – Minneapolis Star Tribune Third time’s a charm for the “Fantastic Beasts” series, which took three tries to - finally - produce something that feels like a complete movie. Full Review David Fear – Rolling StoneĪn alternate subtitle could be “Totalitarianism for Tykes.” Full Review | Original Score: B- Amy Nicholson – New York Times And you, Newt Scamander, are no Harry Potter. We served with Harry Potter, we knew Harry Potter, he was a friend of ours. Full Review | Original Score: B Nell Minow – Movie Mom It relies on a level of knowledge about the Harry Potter cinematic universe that does not make this two and a half-hour movie easy for viewers who are not as familiar with the characters. Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 Emily Zemler – Observer The Secrets of Dumbledore has its moments, but the sum is oddly less than its parts. Rowlings planned five film prequel to Harry Potter, but this flagging franchisebeset with controversies among its creative teamslogs when it most needs to soar. Full Review Alison Willmore – New York Magazine/VultureĮnchantment still beckons in the third of J.K. No one involved in these movies seems to have any idea what their appeal is supposed to be. And somehow, its appealing pieces, old and new, again add up to a less-than-magical movie. Like The Crimes of Grindelwald, Secrets of Dumbledore is handsomely done but ultimately too much of a dumble-snore. Full Review Joe Morgenstern – Wall Street Journal We’re supposed to be witnessing an epic battle between good and evil, but it’s a contest between energy and entropy, and entropy carries the dreary day. Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 James Berardinelli – ReelViewsĪvada Kedavra! Full Review | Original Score: 1/4 Johnny Oleksinski – New York Post It’s time to bid farewell to Dumbledore and his associates, students, proteges, and enemies. ![]() While The Secrets of Dumbledore is miles from ideal, it at least clears the bar of not leaving a foul, confusing taste like its immediate predecessor. Full Review Tim Cogshell – FilmWeek (KPCC – NPR Los Angeles ) These movies are not - they’re displays of wizardry, if you forgive the pun. To my mind, the movie needs to be entertaining on its own. No amount of movie magic can save it now. If the series were to fizzle out, that would be a relief. Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 Mark Feeney – Boston Globe Kicking off a franchise can have that effect. This one may well be better than “Where to Find Them,” which was a mite busy for its own good. Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 James Luxford – BBC.com Full Review Tiffany Babb – Chicago ReaderĮven taken on its own merits, its a case of a sequel too far Theres no getting away from the fact that, without Harry Potter, this (movie) doesnt seem to know where to go. While perhaps the best Fantastic Beasts film, The Secrets of Dumbledore remains a dour movie with lots to say but not enough imagination or understanding to say it well. Full Review Richard Roeper – Chicago Sun-Times This entertaining Harry Potter prequel buries memories of the Grindelwald disaster. They have all the dramatic interest and excitement of a manual. It’s very clear, watching these movies, that they’re adapted from a branded guidebook. Rowling, Steve Kloves, Lionel Wigram, Tim LewisĬritic reviews for Fantastic Beasts: The Secret of Dumbledore Rating: PG-13 (Some Fantasy Action / Violence).But with the stakes so high, how long can Dumbledore remain on the sidelines? Unable to stop him alone, he entrusts Magizoologist Newt Scamander (Eddie Redmayne) to lead an intrepid team of wizards, witches and one brave Muggle baker on a dangerous mission, where they encounter old and new beasts and clash with Grindelwald’s growing legion of followers. Professor Albus Dumbledore (Jude Law) knows the powerful Dark wizard Gellert Grindelwald (Mads Mikkelsen) is moving to seize control of the wizarding world. ‘Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore’ Posters Dave Wong as Liu Tao, Candidate for the post of Supreme Head of the ICW and Minister of Magic for China.Maria Fernanda Cândido as Vicência Santos: Candidate for the post of Supreme Head of the ICW and Minister of Magic for Brazil.Oliver Masucci as Anton Vogel: The current Supreme Head of the International Confederation of Wizards (ICW) and Minister of Magic for Germany. ![]() Richard Coyle as Aberforth Dumbledore: Albus Dumbledore’s younger brother, owner of the Hog’s Head inn, and Credence’s biological father.Jessica Williams as Eulalie “Lally” Hicks.Ezra Miller as Credence Barebone / Aurelius Dumbledore. ![]()
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