Review: 'A Wrinkle in Time' is a landmark film, but doesn’t always work

[The Patriot]

Review: 'A Wrinkle in Time' is a landmark film, but doesn’t always work

03-07-2018 01:30 PM

Ava DuVernay’s “A Wrinkle in Time” is a landmark film even before it hits the theaters. The adaptation of Madeleine L’Engle’s eerie, mystical young adult sci-fi novel from 1962 was budgeted at over $100 million, the largest budget a woman of color has been handed for a film. DuVernay is only the fourth female director to receive that kind of budget for a project, and in tackling the beloved “A Wrinkle in Time,” she has taken an enormous swing. That alone is worthy of recognition.


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