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Friday’s openings: a witch’s brew of movies

Dan Webster

Hollywood is still trying to recapture that Harry Potter magic, this time with the second in the prequel "Fantastic Beasts" series, which is among Friday's opening movies:

"Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald": Newt Scamander (Eddie Redmayne) is enlisted to help battle the nefarious Gellert Grindelwald (Johnny Depp). Captain Jack Sparrow is now an evil wizard.

"Instant Family": Rose Byrne and Mark Wahlberg star as a clueless, childless couple who end up adopting a trio of orphans. As if the kids didn't have it hard enough already …

"Widows": Director Steve McQueen strays away from straight drama and tries his hand at this genre story about four women who react to the deaths of their husbands by completing a complex heist. If you want something done, give the task to a woman.

As always, I'll update when the local theaters finalize their bookings.