Metacritic assigned the film a weighted average score of 47 out of 100 based on 49 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews" [76] and marking the lowest score on the site for a Wizarding World film. All that being said, the future of the Fantastic Beasts series is still unclear, but a fourth movie hasn't totally been ruled out yet. Yates has served his time, although considering he's only helmed one non-Potter movie in the same ensuing years (2016's The Legend of Tarzan), maybe he's just as reluctant to walk away from this universe.

So congrats, Warner Brothers, for going far enough to at least say Dumbledore and Grindelwald were boyfriends at one point.

Bunty, who has the real suitcase, produces the surviving Qilin, which passes by Grindelwald and Vogel and bows to Dumbledore.

If it's that he's gay, well at least the movie finally has the temerity to finally say that Dumbledore and Grindelwald were more than just really special friends who decided to wear vials of each other's blood as necklaces. Having said that, we need a bridge between what he did and what I’m gonna do, so those bridges you have to find together. Fantastic Beasts 3' Critics: Mads Mikkelsen Is Better Than Johnny Depp and 'Should've Been Cast From the Start' ".Eddie Redmayne Confirms Fantastic Beasts 3 Filming Has Resumed And Describes The 'New Normal' On Set". If you're happy to just step back into this special world one last time, then you'll at least walk away satisfied. They took the magic out and inserted the desire for money, it's sad for Potter fans around the world.