Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them's reviews
Media reviews
The Guardian
Fantastic Beasts is a rich, baroque, intricately detailed entertainment with some breathtaking digital fabrications of prewar New York City. This is Steampunk 2.0, taking its inspirations from Terry Gilliam?s Brazil or Howard Hawks?s His Girl Friday but the New York she creates also has the dark, traumatised look of Gotham City.
Indiewire
J.K. Rowling?s prequel, ?Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them? shows that her universe expands handily. Taking a step back from the pressure to continue the existing storyline, she dips into its past for a smart, engaging prequel that deepens the ?Potter? saga while pushing it in a fresh direction.
The Telegraph
A film about a magical zookeeper has turned out to be the most unexpectedly relevant blockbuster of 2016
Rolling Stone
The real stars here are the beasts, supposedly ugly, weird and dangerous, but paragons of FX creativity in service of genuine ideas.
The Washington Post
The plot thickens, along with the emotional tension, which was always the best part of the Potter universe, and not the dazzling special effects.
Roger Ebert
As with most complicated narratives, it is best to simply sit back at some point and enjoy the ride.
USA Today
Director David Yates? entertaining introduction of awkward hero and magizoologist Newt Scamander (Eddie Redmayne) is a confident and surprisingly funny adventure that?s more charming than most of the eight 'Harry Potter' films.
Variety
?Fantastic Beasts? does double-duty as yet another imagination-tickling fantasy adventure and a deeply troubled commentary on tolerance, fear, and bigotry in the world today.
The Hollywood Reporter
Eddie Redmayne makes an ideal Newt Scamander, who is endearingly sheepish around humans but gifted with the nifflers, bowtruckles, erumpents and so forth to whom the pic's title refers.
Empire
Big, bold and teeming with imagination, it is so busy world-building that it occasionally forgets to have fun. But with this heavy lifting done, there?s every reason to hope for an even more magical adventure next time.
Festival Internacional de Cine de Lanzarote