Review of A Wrinkle in Time (2018) by Amy J — 01 Apr 2018

It's just ... not good. Charles Wallace is ... after adjusting for him being just a kid ... actually surprisingly good, and Meg did well enough. Almost everyone else seems to have seen the script for the first time five minutes before the cameras started rolling (the exceptions are Reese Witherspoon and Zach Gallifianakis, who play characters that are kind of cliched, but at least don't just appear to be cold reading their lines off of cue cards).

A LOT of liberties were taken with the source material, and ultimately there was only one of them that I would be willing to say "Okay, that was different, but it wasn't clearly worse in every way" (that being the Happy Medium). The movie lingers on scenes that should have been much shorter if not cut entirely. I can forgive the omission of Meg's older brothers but reducing Aunt Beast's entire species to a three second cameo is just intolerable.