Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald (2018)

Early press for this second Fantastic Beasts film was not particularly kind, so I went in with lowered expectations, which ironically paid off because this was better then I had thought it would be. For the first two quarters of the film I was "nah", the 3rd quarter "well maybe", and the final "didn't see that coming". Not as enjoyable over all as the first film (which I wish I had watched again shortly before seeing this to bring me back up to speed), this movie defiantly grew one me though it was only at the end that I could appreciate the surprisingly subtle set up of its close. ***