Film: Stuffing a sequel to saturation point
If, like me, you come away from Grindelwald thinking there is far too much to it, that exhaustion will not be soothed by news that no fewer than three further sequels await us
Cinema
Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald: Directed by David Yates, nationwide, 12A, Rating: ***
Suspiria: Directed by Luca Guadagnino, Selected, 18, Rating: **
An overstuffed sequel loses some of its magic in The Crimes of Grindelwald, a darker, more easily distracted follow-up to 2016’s Fantastic Beasts & Where To Find Them. That latter film was itself a spin-off from the Harry Potter franchise, where Eddie Redmayne played “magizoologist” Newt Scamander, a floppy-haired ...
