HOLLYWOOD, CA—The newest film in the Harry Potter series, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, will hit theatres tomorrow, and reviewers are already raving that it offers a thrilling chance to visit an entirely hypothetical world in which a powerful man with dark intentions seeks to lead a large group of people astray, as opposed to just staying outside the theatre where that is already very much an ongoing reality.

"At the end of the day, films are about escapism," says Dorothy Uxbridge, writing in the Hollywood Reporter this week. "That's the true joy of this film and the Harry Potter series as a whole—we can see, if only temporarily, what the world would look if a dangerous man tried to seek the reins of power, rather than simply living in the world in which that exact scenario already happened just last week. And I think that's important."

Principal shooting on the movie began in August of 2015, a time when the events of the Potter universe would have actually been quite different from the real universe in which we're already forced to spend the bulk of our time, a circumstance that the filmmakers surely could not have predicted would abruptly change in a profoundly ghastly way.

The movie features Johnny Depp as a man who seeks power over everyone and claims, despite all evidence, to be doing it all "for the greater good"—again, this is just a pretend film—and the story will give viewers an opportunity to experience the abject terror of being at the mercy of an unpredictable narcissistic megalomaniac, but for two hours people can experience that feeling in the dark in a theatre, rather than having that exact same feeling occur wherever else they happen to be that day.