![]() ![]() ![]() (The role was last played by Johnny Depp Mads Mikkelsen takes over the role here, and Grindelwald’s threats sound more probable when delivered with Mikkelsen’s bloodless chill.) Rowling’s readers know to refer to nonmagical people as Muggles. Grindelwald, the wizard supremacist last seen attempting to incite a global war, hopes to convince the magical world to back his campaign platform to subjugate nonmagical humans. Rowling and Steve Kloves, center “Secrets of Dumbledore” on an election. Instead of building the plot around a tedious pursuit peppered with cutesy digital monsters - a misstep in the first two “Fantastic Beasts” films - the returning director David Yates and the screenwriters, J.K. It’s a pointed movie from tip to barbed tail. An alternate subtitle could be “Totalitarianism for Tykes.” The deadly stakes are crystal-ball clear. A chunk of the story is set in 1930s Berlin. ![]() In this third installment in the “Fantastic Beasts” franchise (itself a prequel series to the original “Harry Potter” stories), cuddly critters have mostly been swapped out for darker creatures: Here, scorpionesque freaks guard a prison where activists are tortured (or worse). Like so much children’s entertainment these days, “Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore” is a political primer sprinkled in magic dust. ![]()
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