Review of Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (2016) by Ilja S — 06 Nov 2016

Original and refreshing, Burton's x-men if you will. Interesting twists.

This review of Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (2016) was written by Ilja S on 06 Nov 2016.

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

Was this review helpful?

Yes

More reviews of this movie:

More Reviews of Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

Review of Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (2016)

By Aaron Peterson (245) for The Hollywood Outsider (262) on 24 Oct 2018

Tim Burton is still has a command of the macabre, even if the film feels a bit like a missed opportunity…

Read Review

Review of Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (2016)

By Jens S (711) on 10 Sep 2018

Some parts of the film, especially the look, are typical Tim Burton. What's rather unusual for him is the slow pacing in the first act…

Read Review

Review of Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (2016)

By Dominarsen (81) on 08 Dec 2018

Miss Peregrine et les enfants particuliers Un film de Tim Burton spécial ... quel film de lui ne l'est pas…

Read Review

Review of Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (2016)

By Bella C (27) on 18 Mar 2018

While I still prefer the books, this movie was amazing with its visuals, and the actors were well chosen for the roles of the peculiar children…

Read Review

Review of Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (2016)

By Andrew Parker (194) for The Gate (178) on 27 Aug 2018

While there's still a lot here worth liking, it remains to be seen if the potential franchise can improve on the whimper this one goes out with…

Read Review

Review of Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (2016)

By Serge L (642) on 13 Feb 2018

Tim Burton is certainly peculiar enough. Based on a book that defies all laws of physics. This is a very adventurous story for all ages…

Read Review

Review of Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (2016)

By Abbie Bernstein (403) for Assignment X (330) on 22 Oct 2018

Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children has charm, imagination and even some decent scares…

Read Review

Review of Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (2016)

By Per Gunnar J (240) on 13 Feb 2018

Tim Burton is certainly peculiar enough. Based on a book that defies all laws of physics. This is a very adventurous story for all ages…

Read Review

Review of Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (2016)

By Melina P (1) on 06 Apr 2018

A suitable match for Tim Burton's distinctive style, even if it's on stronger footing as a visual experience than a narrative one…

Read Review

Review of Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (2016)

By Lau H (153) on 30 Apr 2018

This movie has a nice setup, nice background, nice visual, but poor in execution…

Read Review

More reviews of this movie

Reviews of Similar Movies

Review of Star Trek: First Contact (1996)

By Rickyb. (7) on 20 Aug 2006

You guys are all wrong!! Dis movie is really boring and no fun, it was soooo boring that it keeps making me fall asleep…

Read Review

Review of The Lovely Bones (2009)

By Ingo (1) on 24 Sep 2010

A really bad film! the characters had no depth, the scene seemed to go from bad to worse and dragged on and on…

Read Review

Review of O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000)

By Owen Gleiberman (3,271) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 05 Mar 2009

Why would filmmakers with this much talent work this hard to thumb their noses at everything they put on screen…

Read Review

Review of Donnie Darko (2001)

By Mrrickstur (5) on 23 Jan 2018

When you have a main character time traveling across parallel universes, and the film has a dead-serious mood, I just can't help but laugh…

Read Review

Review of Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986)

By Jeremy B (846) on 12 Feb 2012

A dung heap of a film. Relying on headbands, boom boxes and whales for laughs, more laughs and drama respectively. Everything was done wrong…

Read Review

Review of When We First Met (2018)

By Mike Scott (1,178) for New Orleans Times-Picayune (573) on 08 Feb 2018

To be fair, though, even if all three actors had brought their A game, the half-baked story behind When We First Met is so formulaic and so…

Read Review

Review of Back to the Future Part III (1990)

By Dean K (605) on 11 Feb 2018

Again this sequel just Flat out bored me…

Read Review

Review of Back to the Future (1985)

By Dostoyevsky3 (164) on 03 Feb 2021

Next time you make a movie, don't have your only female character be a typical damsel in distress in need of a man to save her from being raped…

Read Review

Review of Back to the Future Part II (1989)

By Seyeergame (8) on 28 May 2021

The second part of the Back to the future is disaster. The same plot from the first part but in other cover. So saddly to watch that…

Read Review

Review of Star Wars (1977)

By Michaelh. (30) on 12 Aug 2008

Only a cult nerd would enjoy this poorly composed film, George Lucas, please don't make any more movies…

Read Review

More Reviews

Popular Movies Right Now

Inside Out

2015

86%1,276 Reviews

The Batman

2022

75%430 Reviews

Dawn of the Planet of the Apes

2014

79%1,167 Reviews

No Hard Feelings

2023

65%90 Reviews

Spider-Man: No Way Home

2021

79%458 Reviews

No Time to Die

2021

74%254 Reviews

Oppenheimer

2023

85%310 Reviews

Godzilla vs. Kong

2021

66%184 Reviews

Babylon

2022

68%144 Reviews

The Gentlemen

2020

71%170 Reviews