Review of Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (2016) by Mark Medley for Globe and Mail — 29 Sep 2016

Very much a superhero film – "X-Men" as imagined by Edward Gorey. But it’s not populated with the sorts of characters we’ve come to expect – tormented anti-heroes or wisecrackin’ daredevils or noble demi-gods.

Rather, it’s a film about a group of broken children, not off saving the world but being saved from the world.