I was very surprised to see that David Yates directed these.

I see lack of visual storytelling, it's more straight to the point: here is this character, he's saying that, then they're doing this stuff, here's that.

Beautiful production design, good VFX, very good concept design (actually, these movies feel like a bunch of moving concept arts) but otherwise it's too non-outstanding. There's no magic, I can't relate to anything and I don't feel being in this magic world.

Maybe it's due to many films set in 20s being released during that period, so that they all look alike?

Or maybe there was a goal to create something very different from Harry Potter. Anyways, these movies don't feel like early, more naive HPs, nor like later, darker ones directed by Yates.

Also, too many new people every time, and it's too hard to relate to any of them, sometimes even to remember them.

It's sad that now, having so much power over imagery we got into playing with 3D too much, and totally forgot about storytelling and working with camera / actors feeling like their characters and not themselves. Likewise, in HPs all the fantastic animals/things looked real, as if they could really exist, even the most non-lifelike. These are very nicely produced technically, but absolutely not believable.