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![]() ![]() It would be nice for the audience to know, too - but despite an overstuffed plot, Dumbledore’s game of wizarding chess is a mostly entertaining one. How it all fits together is on a need-to-know basis. So it is that magizoologist Newt ( Eddie Redmayne), his Auror brother Theseus ( Callum Turner), assistant Bunty (Victoria Yeates), muggle baker Jacob ( Dan Fogler), Ilvermorny teacher Lally ( Jessica Williams, a likeable newcomer), and the mysterious Yusuf (William Nadylam) are split into groups on intersecting missions, masterminded by the wizarding legend. ![]() With the wizard-supremacist rhetoric of Grindelwald (whose new Mikkelsen-shaped appearance is no more remarked upon than that of Michael Gambon’s Dumbledore in The Prisoner Of Azkaban) gaining ground, Dumbledore (Jude Law) hatches a plan of counter-attack - and lest his pawns be captured, nobody is given the full picture. Some of that obscure(ial) plotting can be forgiven - often a feature more than a bug, since The Secrets Of Dumbledore positions itself as a spy thriller amid a brewing magical war. ![]() The MVP, though, is Jude Law’s Dumbledore –he brings much-needed sparkle to proceedings, his Gambon-esque, twinkly warmth offset by a sense of unknowability. ![]()
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