Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald Could Use a Bit More Magic

This weekend at the movies, we’ve got a Potterverse sequel (Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald, starring Eddie Redmayne and Jude Law), a foster family (Instant Family, starring Mark Wahlberg and Rose Byrne), grieving thieves (Widows, starring Viola Davis and Elizabeth Debicki), and a relentless reporter (A Private War, starring Rosamund Pike and Jamie Dornan). What are the critics saying?

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Escape at Dannemora: Season 1

89%

Escape at Dannemora‘s slow pace demands patience, but those willing to wait will be rewarded with a chilling mystery that provides the perfect showcase for its talented cast — especially so for the incredible Patricia Arquette.

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• , about a decades-old stock car race in Long Island, is at 100%.
• , a documentary about a family in Israel dealing with the father’s sudden announcement that he’s transgender, is at 100%.
• , Claude Lanzmann‘s documentary telling the stories of four women from different Eastern European countries, is at 100%.
• , a psychological thriller about a webcam porn performer who discovers she’s been replaced by a replica of herself, is Certified Fresh at 95%.
• , a drama about a teen whose life is upended when her mother converts to Islam, is at 92%.
• , a documentary about war correspondent Marie Colvin and photographer Paul Conroy’s final mission into Syria, is at 88%.
• , a documentary charting two years in the lives of a radical Islamist family in Syria, is at 88%.
• , starring Mahershala Ali and Viggo Mortensen in a based-on-true-events drama about the friendship that develops between a black pianist and his hired driver in the 1960s, is at 87%.
• , a thriller about a teen who discovers his upstanding father may be his town’s infamous serial killer, is at 80%.
• , about the relationship between a London lesbian couple and the male best friend whose help they’ve enlisted to have a baby, is at 79%.
• , starring Willem Dafoe as Vincent van Gogh in a unique look at the painter’s life, is at 77%.
• , starring Ansel Elgort in a sci-fi drama about a man with two personalities living inside him who both fall for the same woman, is at 60%.
• , about a young couple living in poverty with an 8-year-old son who find refuge in a mobile home community, is at 59%.
• , starring Hilary Swank and Helena Bonham Carter in the story of Eleanor Riese, who fought in court for the right of mental patients to refuse anti-psychotic drug treatments, is at 50%.
• , starring John Travolta in an action thriller about a speedboat racer who moonlights as a drug trafficker, is at 14%.