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Review of by Michael Phillips for Chicago Tribune — 28 Sep 2016

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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.

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This review of Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (2016) was written by and published by Chicago Tribune on 28 Sep 2016.

Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children has generally received positive reviews.

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