In this film, nuance seems to have disapparated from the wizarding world altogether.
The fun but more predictable Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald moves the new series forward, but only incrementally.
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Judging from the sequel’s first trailer, we are in perhaps for a darker experience.
The film exists resolutely outside of salience and doggedly within the comfort of escapism.
Bérubé has crafted an accessible if still rigorous study of the way fiction grapples with intellectual disability.
Like J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter books, The Casual Vacancy is informed with a Dickensian outrage with class inequality.
David Yates seems to want the film to capture the excitement of the moment but also to strike up nostalgia for all that has gone before.
Narrative structure is one of the steadiest elements of the Harry Potter films.
Perhaps David Yates recognized that, at this point in the series, addressing the full-scale detail and themes of the story at large would not be feasible
The hokey representations on display here tend not to mesh with the scope of the tournament games.
Alfonso Cuarón’s aesthetic seems perfectly suited to the narrative, which focuses on Harry’s near-despondent state.
Few film franchises have been more constitutive of the modern movie spectacle (and the digital age of cinema) than Harry Potter.
Dread pervades Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, the series’s most propulsive and altogether satisfying installment.