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Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

2016

Tim Burton

Asa Butterfield, Eva Green, Samuel L. Jackson, Terence Stamp ...

6.0

20,582

Fantasy. Adventure When Jake discovers clues to a mystery that spans alternate realities and times, he uncovers a secret refuge known as Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children. As he learns about the residents and their unusual abilities, Jake realizes that safety is an illusion, and danger lurks in the form of powerful, hidden enemies. Jake must figure out who is real, who can be trusted, and who he really is.

	Media	Author	Review
		Todd McCarthy The Hollywood Reporter	"For at least the first hour (...) Burton seems well on his way to making one of his best films (...) But enormous special effects take over and marginalize the genuine narrative conviction that's up to then been generated."
		Tom Huddleston Time Out	"The characters are too numerous to make much impression (...) The effect is like four or five Harry Potter books squeezed into a single movie (...) Rating: ★★ (out of five)"
		Jordan Hoffman The Guardian	"That this adaptation is highly stylish is hardly surprising; that it’s quite so charming and funny is (...) It gels as Tim Burton’s best (non-musical) live-action movie for 20 years. (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of five)"
		Peter Debruge Variety	"Goldman's frequently amusing script is the secret ingredient that makes Miss Peregrine such an appropriate fit for Burton's peculiar sensibility, allowing the director to revisit and expand motifs and themes from his earlier work."
		Tim Grierson Screendaily	"A familiar mixture of adolescent angst, lavish visuals, dark humour and tiresome whimsy"
		Peter Travers Rolling Stone	Tim Burton returns (...) [The] director gets his mojo back – sort of – with eccentric, energetic adaptation of Ransom Riggs' young-adult novel (...) Rating: ★★½ (out of four)"
		Alonso Duralde The Wrap	"This adventure should have been spooky and witty and exciting, but instead it’s just dreary and dull. Peculiarity has rarely been this tedious."
		Chris Hewitt Empire	"While it's neither as dark, funny nor peculiar as you’d expect from Tim Burton, there’s still much here to admire. (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of five)"
		David Ehrlich IndieWire	"'Miss Peregrine’s' is a hollow ode to wonder and weirdness that suggests we’re running perilously low on both."
		Devan Coggan Entertainment Weekly	"'Miss Peregrine' has all the visual hallmarks of your classic Burton (...) But the film chooses style over substance (...)This heroic weirdos need a little more heart"
		Brian Truitt USA Today	"The kids are all right, especially the weird ones, in the company of Tim Burton (...) 'Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children' acts like a greatest-hits collection for the iconic director (...) Rating: ★★★½ (out of four)"

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