Tim Burton was a natural to direct “Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children.” Heck, it’s easy to imagine him growing up there. So why does the resulting movie feel so bland?
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The new drama about the 2010 tragedy spends its first half doing its best to explain what’s about to go wrong and its second half covering a bunch of actors in mud and oil as they run around in cramped quarters while things blow up all around them. Despite its best intentions, neither half makes much sense.
Before you go getting your hide chapped that Hollywood remade “The Magnificent Seven,” remember one thing: “The Magnificent Seven” itself was a remake.
After a promising start, “Bridget Jones’s Baby” gets more nonsensical as it goes, culminating in a ridiculous race to the hospital that should have embarrassed everyone involved.
Put Tom Hanks in charge of pretty much any vessel — be it the container ship from “Captain Phillips,” the lunar module from “Apollo 13,” even the school bus from “Bachelor Party” — and something is bound to go wrong.