Hot Take: Unmistakably Tim Burton. Too bad it's handcuffed with an overstuffed story and Asa Butterfield who is usually brilliant but peculiarly vacant in the lead role. Second only to the reboot/remake phenomenon is the YA franchise-starter. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, based on the début novel from Ransom Riggs that spawned two sequels, looks to be a film that