Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them

After J. K. Rowling's misfire with The Cursed Child, I was left wondering if she could write as splendidly as she does outside of her genre, the novel.  Now her first screenplay, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, proves to me that my first impression of her scriptwriting was pretty solid.  The plot is too straightforward and lacks the thematic co…