

Truthfully, this Harry Potter movie ranked lower on the list because too much information got swept under the rug. Other franchises would echo this tactic, with similarly disappointing results. Despite making the most of its assigned book chapters, this Harry Potter effort always holds back, and is forced to eke out half a book into an entire movie. If there's a sense that this penultimate release is merely a set-up movie for a much bigger climax, it's because the first half of The Deathly Hallowsis precisely that. went for, and The Deathly Hallows - Part 1 suffers as a result. Ultimately, this is the option Warner Bros. Up next on the list of the best Harry Potter movies is The Deathly Hallows - Part 1. Adapting the final Harry Potter book for the big screen presented a problem - one film wasn't enough to do justice to the abundance of story and drama that needed to be covered before the series bowed out but, realistically, there wasn't enough material to warrant two full, feature-length films. A lot of plotholes are glossed over with CGI magic duels, but at least Rowling gave a satisfying answer to Credence's parentage, rather than just erasing canon again.

This movie doesn't rank higher on the list due to its critical reception and the continuous breaking of the Harry Potter canon. Fantastic Beasts 3 greatly benefits from Grindelwald's Mads Mikkelsen recasting, as he does a better job than Johnny Depp at portraying the silver-tongued manipulator. Rowling is no revolutionary screenwriter. But with a bit more experience under the novelist's belt, it seems that the Fantastic Beasts series could be salvageable. Surprisingly, it does, despite not being as good as the first movie. After the failure of the previous film, people were downright anxious over whether or not the third film would deliver. The Harry Potter prequel is a definite step up from Fantastic Beasts 2. Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore ranked at number 9 in the best Fantastic Beasts movies list because it's better than The Crimes of Grindelwald, but not at the caliber of other HP movies.
