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Dec 20, 2019willpell rated this title 4.5 out of 5 stars
This is one of two movies I can think of which are better than their corresponding book (the other example is "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children"), and it's for the same reason in both cases - one of the best filmmakers in Hollywood history, adapting the promising-but-flawed first novel of a brand-new author. The radical degree to which the story is changed for cinematic purposes makes it barely recognizable, but if taken on its own merits, it is fairly excellent, with most of its mild failings coming from the same Easter-egg overload that makes it awesome the rest of the time. Eager to see it again.