A Wrinkle In Time

"Madeleine L’Engle’s 1962 novel is a sprawling fantasy, encouraging young readers to use their imaginations and embrace individualism. Trying to squeeze the whole book into just under two hours of gaudy CGI results in an experience not dissimilar from Spielberg’s Ready Player One, wherein the whole thing looks and feels more like a video-game clip than a movie."

"Let me put a more positive spin on a negative review. The book is still out there for everyone to read: Please do so."

"A Wrinkle in Time is wildly uneven, weirdly suspenseless, and tonally all over the place, relying on wall-to-wall music to supply the missing emotional connection and trowel over huge plot holes."

"Ava DuVernay's film adaptation of it catches the sense of exhilaration and wonder that arises from the story's elements of fantasy."

"Fans of the book and admirers of Ms. DuVernay's work - I include myself in both groups - can breathe a sigh of relief, and some may also find that their breath has been taken away."

"The film has the feel of a iPad video pawned off on a toddler so Dad can make comforting mac and cheese - here's a bite-sized lesson about loving yourself and a jumble of pretty colours."

"A smart, funny, spectacular and deftly done film."

"Every generation gets The NeverEnding Story it deserves. This one may very well be ours."

"A profoundly satisfying, imaginative and beautiful film."

"By turns gorgeous, propulsive and feverishly overwrought, "A Wrinkle in Time" is an otherworldly glitter explosion of a movie, the kind of picture that wears its heart on its tie-dyed sleeve."

"Only the faintest glimmers of genuine, earned emotion pierce through the layers of intense calculation that encumber Ava DuVernay's A Wrinkle in Time."