2022 · fantasy · adventure · political
Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore
Directed by David Yates2h 22m2022
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.
Our read: Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore (2022) reads as a neutral, kinetic, inventive fantasy · adventure · political entry — measured in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Neutral, kinetic, measured fantasy / adventure, inventive in texture. Redemptive, epic, measured.
- brisk
- inventive
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