Every Wizarding World Movie Ranked

11. Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes Of Grindelwald (2018)

It shouldn't come as a surprise that the second instalment of the Fantastic Beasts saga, The Crimes of Grindelwald, remains the Wizarding World's worst film. Reviled by both critics and audiences alike upon release, time has offered it no favours.

Written by Rowling in an attempt to add some background to the world audiences came to love during the adventures of Harry Potter, The Crimes of Grindelwald is an overburdened mess of unwanted fan service, sloppy set-ups of things to come, and needlessly complicated and contradictory worldbuilding.

Worse still is the execution, which courtesy of long-time franchise director David Yates has embarrassingly little flare or interest in what's playing out on screen. Even the actors, including the likes of Jude Law, Eddie Redmayne and a laughably miscast Johnny Depp match Yates' lack of charisma with every scene.

The Crimes of Grindelwald is basically two hours of Rowling messing with her own mythology and setting up a noticeably rushed and anti-climactic stand-off between Dumbledore and the eponymous wizard. Speaking of which...