![]() ![]() ![]() The only thing the suitcase doesn’t have is a reliable lid, and Newt has barely arrived in New York City - the year is 1926, and Colleen Atwood’s costumes take lovely liberties with the period - before one of his more mischievous animals escapes, skittering around inside a bank and stealing shiny things. In fact, its vast, barnlike interior seems to contain its own time-space portals, allowing its inhabitants to enjoy whatever kind of habitat - desert, the Arctic, cluttered set-designer’s attic - they desire. As he travels the globe collecting magical creatures, the wizard-scholar carries an enviable answer to Noah’s ark: A humble leather suitcase that, like the Tardis and Mary Poppins‘ bag, is far larger on the inside than the outside. ![]() Eddie Redmayne makes an ideal Newt Scamander, who is endearingly sheepish around humans but gifted with the nifflers, bowtruckles, erumpents and so forth to whom the pic’s title refers. ![]()
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