Ranking Every Harry Potter & Wizarding World Film Worst To Best

11. Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes Of Grindelwald

The catastrophic second instalment of the Fantastic Beasts leg of the franchise is a film that doesn't really have a plot. Instead, it's too many characters going around in circles looking for any sort of narrative and eventually arriving at a howlingly awful finale.

'Messy' isn't even the word. A broken, surprisingly mean-spirited and completely anti-structural car crash of a movie with no emotional weight, no suspense, no character development and nothing but sequel set-up, Crimes of Grindelwald makes Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker look like a masterpiece of coherence.

Case in point: Late in the film, the story literally pauses for ten minutes so that a character can explain, via a nauseating flashback, that she caused her baby brother to drown in a shipwreck when she was a child.

As you'd expect from the Wizarding World series, the performances are terrific, with Jude Law's Albus Dumbledore being arguably one of the best performances in a terrible film ever, and the production design, musical score and visuals are sublime. Sadly, such things fail to ever hide the fact that this is one of the worst-written Hollywood films in recent memory.

If this franchise ever delivers something worse than this, that'll be a miracle of the worst kind.