Fantastic Beasts introduces us to a wondrous world outside of our cinematic Potter knowledge, and works as a prime set-up even if substance is a bit slight.
Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk will be remembered as a conversation starter for 120FPS 4K technology, but there's still plenty of time before it's perfected.
Warren Beatty's Howard Hughes retrospective, Rules Don't Apply, is equally tone-deaf in humor and drama, cobbled together in ways that never seem to fit.