Review of A Wrinkle in Time (2018) by Mark P — 12 Mar 2018

I was so disappointed by this film. A cast this solid in its acting strength (at least among the adult cast), a director this talented, a production so visionary in its use of color and style, and a source material as innovative as madeleine L'engle's seminal novel should have all come together to create a stellar film.

somehow, as mysteriously as the mechanics of tesseracts, almost all the magic disappeared in the conversion from print to film. There are a few moments here and there that serve as inklings of the movie that this tried to be: Mrs.

Which comforting Meg upon their arrival on Orion, Mrs. Whatsit's adorably verbose absent-mindedness, and the undeniable chemistry between the actors playing Meg's parents all leapt off the screen.

But amid those brighter flashes was poor child acting, a distracting barrage of extreme close-ups for no discernible reason, obvious inflation of the run time through transparent plot devices (Calvin falling off Mrs.

Whatsit as she was flying, some forest-tornado thing erupting on Camazotz, etc.), rushed lines that should be interesting but don't land due to the way they are filmed, and a host of other nuts and bolts issues that unforgivably weakened this film.

Honestly, because all the pieces are so clearly there, I wish that Ava DuVernay would agree to a series of reshoots in order to give audiences the film that they truly deserve.