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By Stephen Rebello (292) for Playboy Online (295) on 28 Sep 2016

At least Burton seems more in tune with the material than the director has in years…

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By Sean P. Means (2,056) for Salt Lake Tribune (1,927) on 28 Sep 2016

The performers get lost in the special-effects hoopla at times, and it takes an inordinately long time to build up to the meat of the story…

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

By Roger Tennis (246) for Cinemaclips.com (246) on 28 Sep 2016

A magical headmistress (Eva Green), endangered kids with special powers, time loops and an over-the-top villain (Samuel L…

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By Steve Newall (155) for Flicks.co.nz (982) on 28 Sep 2016

Yes, Hollywood seems to be searching for a new Harry Potter franchise…

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By James Berardinelli (4,524) for ReelViews (4,523) on 28 Sep 2016

A fresh and engaging storybook adventure that should appeal to viewers both inside and out of the core demographic…

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By Mark Dujsik (2,093) for Mark Reviews Movies (2,037) on 28 Sep 2016

The need for a strict plot, unfortunately, trumps the simple but engaging wonder of spending time with these characters…

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By Kyle Smith (1,916) for New York Post (6,650) on 28 Sep 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…

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

By Robert W. Butler (884) for Kansas City Star (1,573) on 28 Sep 2016

Tim Burton's latest is pretty much par for the course: two hours of great art direction in search of a movie…

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By Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) (2,277) for St. Paul Pioneer Press (4,360) on 28 Sep 2016

I'm thrilled Burton is trying to get back some of the sweetness that his recent exercises in garish fairytale-telling lacked (Dark Shadows,…

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

By Calvin Wilson (480) for St. Louis Post-Dispatch (1,715) on 28 Sep 2016

Burton delivers his most ambitious and engaging film since “Sweeney Todd” (2007)…

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

By Christopher Lawrence (234) for Las Vegas Review-Journal (433) on 28 Sep 2016

With Burton calling the shots, there's certainly magic in some of the visuals…

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By Justin Chang (1,535) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 28 Sep 2016

The sense of film craft here is so delicate and assured that, even at its most razzle dazzle-prone moments, the movie never seems to be straining…

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By Alissa Wilkinson (499) for Vox (725) on 28 Sep 2016

I know stories of misfits are meant to be inclusive and empowering. It's an admirable goal…

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

By Kristian M. Lin (336) for Fort Worth Weekly (325) on 28 Sep 2016

He did much the same slapdash job five years ago when he adapted Alice in Wonderland, and it pulled in big audiences back then…

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

By Leah Pickett (132) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 28 Sep 2016

Burton has covered similar ground already, but fans will relish this spooky return to form…

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

By Rafer Guzman (1,080) for Newsday (2,345) on 28 Sep 2016

An uneven adaptation of the Ransom Riggs book, with creepy-funny characters but an extremely muddled story…

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By Barbara Vandenburgh (315) for Arizona Republic (3,909) on 28 Sep 2016

Burton reins in his worst impulses, bad habits that he’s been cultivating for over a decade, to make a wickedly dark children’s movie that…

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

By Jay Horton (37) for Willamette Week (516) on 28 Sep 2016

Tim Burton's adaptation nearly ignores the dull business of storytelling altogether via expository plot dumps crumpled in between ever more…

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

By Brian Truitt (541) for USA Today (4,117) on 28 Sep 2016

This is pretty much Burton doing an X-Men movie, with a plucky yesteryear vibe and evil Samuel L. Jackson thrown in for extra fun…

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By Anthony Morris (102) for sbs.com.au (697) on 28 Sep 2016

There's a warmth to the performances here that gives this a life beyond his usual collection of impressive imagery…

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