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Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

Adventure · Fantasy · 2016

A teenager finds himself transported to an island where he must help protect a group of orphans with special powers from creatures intent on destroying them.

Movie details

Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

“Stay peculiar.”

2016 Adventure · Fantasy 2h 7m

Critical arithmetic

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6.8 / 10

Community rating

A teenager finds himself transported to an island where he must help protect a group of orphans with special powers from creatures intent on destroying them.

CriticWise case file

What this film says about your taste.

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The archetype split

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The people responsible.

Directed by

Tim Burton

Written by

Jane Goldman

Eva Green

Eva Green

Miss Peregrine

Asa Butterfield

Asa Butterfield

Jacob

Samuel L. Jackson

Samuel L. Jackson

Barron

Judi Dench

Judi Dench

Miss Avocet

Rupert Everett

Rupert Everett

Ornithologist

Chris O'Dowd

Chris O'Dowd

Frank

Allison Janney

Allison Janney

Dr. Golan

Court is in session

Put Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children on trial.

Two incompatible taste archetypes. One film. Read the arguments, then issue a completely binding cultural ruling.

The defence The Adrenaline Seeker

“It owes the canon nothing.”

The movie pursues immediacy and audience pleasure without begging institutions to certify its worth.

The prosecution The Auteur Devotee

“Easy pleasure, short half-life.”

It moves efficiently through the moment but offers little reason to keep arguing once the credits end.