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Posted inHome Viewing, Movies & TV

A Failed ‘Home’: Tim Burton’s Visuals and Costumes Can’t Salvage the Bad ‘Miss Peregrine’ Script

Holy hell, is this film a boring mess. In Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, Tim Burton directs a leaden Asa Butterfield in an adaptation of Ransom Riggs’ novel. The movie is sloppy, as if the effects weren’t completed. The story is convoluted, as if the filmmakers thought hiring a big-time art director and costuming […]

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