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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
National
Richard Roeper

‘Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore’ casts a revival spell on the wizarding franchise

The third time’s the Disarming Charm.

That’s one of the classes they teach in the second year at the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, don’t ya know, and while we take only a brief excursion to the future learning institution of Harry Potter and friends in “Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore,” the third of the five planned prequels is a relatively lightweight but still consistently entertaining and magical journey that rights the ship after the utter convoluted disaster titled “Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald” (2018) and feels more connected to the larger HPU (Harry Potter Universe).

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