Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation | Release Date: September 30, 2016 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
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Mixed or average reviews based on 43 Critic Reviews
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22
Mixed:
18
Negative:
3
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
60
EmpireChris Hewitt (1)Sep 26, 2016
While it's neither as dark, funny nor peculiar as you’d expect from Tim Burton, there’s still much here to admire. Read full review
60
The Hollywood ReporterTodd McCarthySep 25, 2016
For a time, an appealing gentleness prevails that's rooted in this unique inter-generational romance, a feeling augmented in particular by Purnell's slow-blooming flower of a performance, and if the film had remained focused more on the improbabilities of this love story, it might have emerged as something rather special. Read full review
58
The A.V. ClubA.A. Dowd Sep 28, 2016
The problem is that everything fun and resonant about the movie (like a boy whose eye works as a movie projector, unspooling his dreams onto the wall) ends up feeling rather ornamental. Read full review
50
Movie NationRoger MooreOct 3, 2016
I was a little awestruck, here and there, at the world “Miss Peregrine” serves up. And I liked the dark and deadly sensibility Burton was reaching for. But the cast and the oh-so-conventional third act Battle Royale let a promising premise down. Read full review
50
The PlaylistNick SchagerOct 1, 2016
This adaptation of Ransom Riggs’ children’s-lit novel offers up merely serviceable studio spectacle, minus any of Burton’s former malevolent mad-genius spirit. Read full review
50
New York PostKyle SmithSep 29, 2016
Burton may give us a bland hero, a tepid love story and a muddled plot but, hey, at least he’s got a skeleton army doing battle with giant tentacle monsters at an amusement park. Read full review
50
San Francisco ChroniclePeter HartlaubSep 29, 2016
A Burton film that mines the romantic fable elements of “Edward Scissorhands,” while pushing the disturbing limits of a film that seems to be marketed for small children, even if it isn’t really intended for them. Read full review
50
Chicago TribuneMichael PhillipsSep 29, 2016
Burton's never been especially good at finding the internal motor or the rhythmic drive within a scene. This, I think, is why Miss Peregrine stalls, again and again, while the bird woman or Samuel L. Jackson's pointy-toothed, fright-wigged Barron tells us what's up with what we just saw, and what'll happen next. Read full review
50
ScreenCrushBritt HayesSep 27, 2016
If this were a better, more entertaining film, Miss Peregrine’s could have been a thoughtful and bold metatextual thesis on Burton’s entire career. Instead, like its partially-formed villainous apparitions, it comes frustratingly close to achieving substance. Read full review
50
We Got This CoveredMatt DonatoSep 26, 2016
With Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, Tim Burton focuses all his energy on a dusty, far-too-droll buildup that's far from worth whatever short-lived excitement his finale brings. Read full review
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The VergeTasha RobinsonOct 3, 2016
Burton's adaptation of Ransom Riggs' 2011 bestseller is a manic but emotionally inert movie that packs on the quirks without finding any personality underneath them. Read full review
42
ConsequenceAllison ShoemakerOct 2, 2016
It’s visually sumptuous, a heady blend of Burton’s usual broken-doll aesthetic and some seriously impressive visual effects. And most importantly, while long, it’s rarely boring. The bad: It simply doesn’t add up to much. Read full review
42
IndieWireDavid EhrlichSep 25, 2016
“Miss Peregrine’s” is a hollow ode to wonder and weirdness that suggests we’re running perilously low on both. Read full review
40
TimeStephanie ZacharekOct 1, 2016
Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children could have been a return to form for Burton, but he loses his sense of direction halfway through. If only he could find his way back to his wild bread-crumb trail, the one that guided him so ably for years. Read full review
40
The TelegraphRobbie CollinSep 29, 2016
It’s another flick through a familiar and by-now bulging scrapbook, but it leaves you craving less – and more. Read full review
40
Austin ChronicleMarc SavlovSep 28, 2016
It’s a phantasmagorical chase movie that rarely takes a breather long enough for you to enjoy the sights along the way. Read full review
40
Screen DailyTim GriersonSep 26, 2016
For a movie that’s meant to have some magic in it, Peculiar Children displays little buoyancy, the proceedings weighed down by tedious world-building and perfunctory thematic lip-service about the need for community and the power that comes from finding one’s voice. Read full review
40
Time Out LondonTom HuddlestonSep 26, 2016
Like four or five Harry Potter books squeezed into a single movie: it makes precious little sense. Read full review
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