Ranking September 2016's Movies - From Worst To Best
7. Miss Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children
RottenTomatoes Score: 61% (5.7/10)
Box Office: Budgeted at a steep $110 million, Tim Burton's latest is tracking to score the #1 spot in its opening weekend, but it all boils down to whether or not it has the legs to be a long-term success. Wait and see.
Verdict: Miss Peregrine is a quintessential Tim Burton movie in that it's visually gorgeous and features several eccentrically entertaining performances, but it's also one of his least-memorable films to date, and at over 2 hours in length, is much longer than it needs to be.
Soaked in exposition and touting dubious logic throughout, it's a solid enough fantasy outing if you largely switch your brain off and enjoy the pretty effects-driven wonder and terrific performances from Eva Green and Samuel L. Jackson. Jackson in particular swings for the fences with a delightfully hammy performance, and it's the easy highlight.
Whether it rustles up enough business for a sequel will remain to be seen, but honestly, this feels like a one-and-done.