Meg Murry (Storm Reid) is a typical middle school student struggling with issues of self-worth who is desperate to fit in. As the daughter of two world-renowned physicists, she is intelligent and uniquely gifted, as is Meg's younger brother Charles Wallace (Deric McCabe), but she has yet to realize it for herself. Making matters even worse is the baffling disappearance of Mr. Murry (Chris Pine), which torments Meg and has left her mother (Gugu Mbatha-Raw) heartbroken. Charles Wallace introduces Meg and her fellow classmate Calvin (Levi Miller) to three celestial guides-Mrs. Which (Oprah Winfrey), Mrs. Whatsit (Reese Witherspoon) and Mrs. Who (Mindy Kaling)-who have journeyed to Earth to help search for their father, and together they set off on their formidable quest.
Beneath it all, at the centre of this deceptively simple, unfussy film is the powerful and frequently heartbreaking story of a little girl who misses her dad. That's it.
A Wrinkle in Time is the Tomorrowland of 2018: a film with a lot of potential, but without a solid concept because it doesn't successfully connect its most memorable parts... [Full review in Spanish]
The dialogue is like a series of speeches, it relies too heavily on songs, the visuals are overwhelming and the CGI weak. But this is unquestionably and unapologetically a children's film and they're not going to care about most of that.
What DuVernay has delivered is essentially a feature-length screensaver which operates on the assumption that cinema for children is a matter of bright colours and dippy sentiment.
