Anything that’s halfway interesting in Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald, the dreadfully-named sequel to the first Harry Potter prequel-spinoff Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, lies ...

The Fantastic Beasts spinoffs began as wonderstruck adventures ... Apart from that, Newt’s piece of the plot has the same blandness as its aesthetic: Series director David Yates conveys that ...