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Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them

2016

David Yates

Eddie Redmayne, Dan Fogler, Katherine Waterston, Alison Sudol ...

6.2

36,289

Fantasy. Adventure Seventy years before Harry Potter reads writer Newt Scamander's (Eddie Redmayne) book in school, the author enjoys adventures in New York's secret community of witches and wizards. The spinoff film takes place in 1926, as Newt travels the globe to find and document magical creatures. But after completing a global excursion and arriving in New York for a brief stopover, his misplaced magical case leads to the escape of some of Newt's ... [+]

	Author	Review
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"That entertainment enchanter JK Rowling has come storming back to the world of magic in a shower of supernatural sparks - and created a glorious fantasy-romance adventure. (...) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of five)"	POS
United Kingdom	Robbie Collin Telegraph	"The film is immaculately cast, and the chemistry between its four heroes holds your eye with its firework fizz. (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of five)"	POS
United States	Peter Debruge Variety	"Maintaining Yates as director lends a consistency to the project, and (...) Yates knows this world as well as anyone, and he excels at finding visual solutions for challenging ideas."	POS
United States	Eric Kohn IndieWire	"The 'Potter' movies were so well conceived that they contain endless possibilities for more entries, and 'Fantastic Beasts' takes the bait right on cue, not repeating a formula so much as enriching it with a spellbinding polish."	POS
United States	John DeFore The Hollywood Reporter	"Invention and effects are the name of the game here, predictably, and this world invites us in as effectively as the best of the Potter episodes."	POS
United Kingdom	Tim Grierson Screendaily	"Like the wizarding movies to which it’s connected, 'Fantastic Beasts' is better the darker it gets, especially in a robust final reel where the film fully hits its stride."	POS
United Kingdom	Helen O'Hara Empire	"Big, bold and teeming with imagination, it is so busy world-building that it occasionally forgets to have fun. (...) there’s every reason to hope for an even more magical adventure next time. (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of five)"	NEU
United Kingdom	Cath Clarke Time Out	"I'm not sure which is more adorable, Eddie Redmayne as Newt Scamander, or the creatures he smuggles into the US in his battered leather briefcase. (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of five)"	POS
United States	Joe Morgenstern The Wall Street Journal	"Extravagant creatures of digital descent can't sustain a story that does little more than set the scene for a long string of sequels"	NEU
United States	Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"'Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them' (...) is best at capturing a world out of balance and an unease that's as timely as today's tweets. (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of four)"	POS
United States	Brian Truitt USA Today	"A confident and surprisingly funny adventure that’s more charming than most of the eight Harry Potter films (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of four)"	POS

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