A Wrinkle in Time
Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | Release Date: March 9, 2018 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
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Mixed or average reviews based on 52 Critic Reviews
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Original-CinKaren GordonJan 3, 2019
Ava DuVernay’s beautiful and visually imaginative A Wrinkle In Time is a magical mystery tour for teenage girls. It’s a female empowerment movie that says love triumphs over evil and light trumps darkness. It says that the many teenage girls who believe they’re not good enough can find their strength and beauty, even through their flaws. Read full review
80
CineVueZoe MargolisDec 28, 2018
By showing that self-worth and acceptance of one’s faults are to be valued, DuVernay has shown how empowerment can come from changing your own outlook, and perhaps adults as well as kids will be able to take something positive from this movie. Read full review
80
Screen DailyTim GriersonMar 7, 2018
Director Ava DuVernay emphasises an emotional clarity and narrative simplicity that allows the book’s sci-fi examination of friendship, family and forgiveness to resonate with almost mythic force. Read full review
75
The AtlanticChristopher OrrMar 16, 2018
It’s refreshing to see a kids’ movie that’s content to remain just that, and doesn’t feel a need to douse itself in pop references or inside jokes. Find the right frequency, and you just might enjoy yourself. Read full review
75
Washington PostAnn HornadayMar 8, 2018
Even without every flaw completely ironed out, it offers values worth celebrating across the time-space continuum. Read full review
75
ConsequenceAllison ShoemakerMar 7, 2018
This is Meg Murry’s movie, and while DuVernay’s visually stunning film may occasionally stumble, Reid does nothing less than soar. Read full review
75
The Seattle TimesMoira MacdonaldMar 7, 2018
Its message is of a young woman’s empowerment, and of how love can save a family — and if the special effects sometimes overwhelm that message (such as a glorious field of flowers that takes flight in a colorful frenzy), it rings through loud and clear by the end. Read full review
75
Rolling StoneDavid FearMar 7, 2018
This Wrinkle in Time is undoubtedly flawed, wildly uneven and apt to tie itself in narrative knots in a quest to wow you with sheer Technicolor weirdness. It's also undeniably DuVernay's movie as much as Disney's, and works best when she puts her feminine energy, high-flying freak flag and sense of empathy front and center. Read full review
70
Village VoiceApril WolfeMar 7, 2018
I was transported by DuVernay’s adaptation to the mind-set of my girlhood — embarrassing insecurities and all. This is not a cynic’s film. It is, instead, unabashedly emotional. Read full review
70
Los Angeles TimesJustin ChangMar 7, 2018
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. Read full review
70
The New York TimesA.O. ScottMar 7, 2018
A Wrinkle in Time, faithful to the affirmative, democratic intelligence of the book, is also committed to serving its most loyal and susceptible audience. This is, unapologetically, a children’s movie, by turns gentle, thrilling and didactic, but missing the extra dimension of terror and wonder that would have transcended the genre. Read full review
70
TheWrapAlonso DuraldeMar 7, 2018
Awash in bold colors, bright patterns and ebullient kids, director Ava DuVernay’s new take on A Wrinkle in Time dazzles its way across time and space even if it doesn’t quite stick the landing. Read full review
67
Austin ChronicleKimberley JonesMar 8, 2018
The opening act, I’m sorry to report, is a mess. Read full review
67
The A.V. ClubJesse HassengerMar 7, 2018
Only Reid and Pine feel like they’re playing fully imagined characters, and DuVernay wrestles with how to make the overstuffed material both contemporary and timeless. Read full review
67
IGNLaura PrudomMar 7, 2018
A Wrinkle in Time is ambitious, hopeful, and imaginative, but it’s also messy, overwrought, and oddly paced. Read full review
63
ReelViewsJames BerardinelliMar 10, 2018
Although advertised as a family-friendly feature, A Wrinkle in Time is a poor choice for younger children. The glacial pacing of the first half-hour, coupled with less-than-easily-digestible chunks of exposition will cause many kids under 10 (and a few adults as well) to squirm in their seats with impatience. Read full review
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RogerEbert.comMatt Zoller SeitzMar 8, 2018
There's a lot here that feels insufficiently shaped or fitfully realized, but at the same time, there's a lot to like. It's the Platonic ideal of a mixed bag. The newness of the new parts counterbalances the ineffectiveness of the stuff that seemingly every fantasy blockbuster does, and that this one doesn't do well. Read full review
63
Boston GlobeTy BurrMar 7, 2018
So how’s the movie already? Not terrible, not great, something of a disappointment after what feels like a geological epoch of hype. Read full review
63
Chicago TribuneMichael PhillipsMar 7, 2018
It has flashes of inspiration and raw emotion, and beyond the famous faces in the cast, Disney’s Wrinkle in Time is graced with a wonderful, natural Meg courtesy of the young actress Storm Reid. Now 14, she’s easy and versatile screen company. The movie around her is a little frustrating and rhythmically stodgy, however, partly for reasons inherent in bringing tricky, elusive material to a different medium. Read full review
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