MOVIE REVIEW: We discover if 'Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore' conjures up enough magic

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While entertaining, the Fantastic Beasts movies have yet to bottle the same magic of their Harry Potter predecessors - especially the climactic few flicks starring the Boy Wizard .

Thankfully, The Secrets of Dumbledore is the closest the fresher franchise comes to matching Potter’s best. The series’ third entry finds Jude Law’s Dumbledore assigning Newt (Eddie Redmayne) and his allies with a crucial mission related to the rising power of Grindelwald (Mads Mikkelsen).

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Rowling and Steve Kloves’ screenplay is less fussed with adding to the Potter lore, and muddying its timeline, and more concerned with this film’s characters.