While writing my review of “Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore,” the third film in a proposed five-film prequel series to J.K. Rowling’s original “Harry Potter” books and films, I kept accidentally typing Dumblebore. I think my subconscious is trying to tell me something.
To be fair, “The Secrets of Dumbledore” has the misfortune of following “Fantastics Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald,” the worst film in Rowling’s Wizarding World. “The Secrets of Dumbledore” is an improvement over its predecessor, but it is bogged down by far too many plots.
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