Chamelonic Eddie Redmayne leads the way as Newt Scamander, an Englishman in 1926 New York whose bottomless suitcase contains a zooful of remarkable creatures. (charlotteobserver.com)
Mary Anning, her subject in Remarkable Creatures, is a rock star to the natural history museum set, a feminist hero dangled before little girls to get them excited about science and to prove that paleontology is not just for boys... Chevalier takes a sensational figure (and Mary Anning was a real celebrity in her own day) and focuses on the quiet, unsensational part of the story. (bookbrowse.com)
At the same time, the wondrous capabilities of the human brain, which far exceed in complexity all other created things, suggest to him that a little anthropocentrism is not such a bad thing: «Part of our glory,» he muses, «is that we can imagine that we are not the most remarkable creatures in the entire universe.» (firstthings.com)