A Wrinkle in Time

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A Wrinkle in Time

PG

2018

1h 49m

Kids & Family

Fantasy

Adventure

Sci-Fi

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Meg Murry and her little brother, Charles Wallace, have been without their scientist father, Mr. Murry, for five years, ever since he discovered a new planet and used the concept known as a tesseract to travel there. Joined by Meg's classmate Calvin O'Keefe and guided by the three mysterious astral travelers known as Mrs. Whatsit, Mrs. Who and Mrs. Which, the children brave a dangerous journey to a planet that possesses all the evil in the universe.

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Critics Consensus

A Wrinkle in Time is visually gorgeous, big-hearted, and occasionally quite moving; unfortunately, it's also wildly ambitious to a fault, and often less than the sum of its classic parts.

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Jenn Jackson

Bitch Media

03/05/2021

The fantastic journey through space and time was as engaging visually as it was narratively.

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Caryn James

BBC.com

04/26/2018

3/5

The film's themes of love, family and self-acceptance are powerful enough to resonate with audiences. But the concept and casting shouldn't be the most magical parts of a fantasy film, no matter how enchanting its message is.

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Ryan Gilbey

New Statesman

03/29/2018

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.

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Caroline Cao

Vague Visages

12/14/2023

A Wrinkle in Time is for kids, and I mean 'made for kids' in the supportive definition rather than the usual lazy and disparaging connotation that's carelessly applied to more lukewarm family films.

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Brian T. Carney

Washington Blade

12/08/2022

The visually impressive adventure saga gets bogged down in corny dialogue.

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Don Shanahan

Every Movie Has a Lesson

06/26/2022

2/5

This colossal springboard from the family film of teen issues to the epic intergalactic adventure "A Wrinkle in Time" desires to be is more than a little haphazard.

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Eye C

@ECinc 6h

I don't know why there was such a bad talk about this movie, I mean, is not the greatest but definitely not the worst of the worst. To start is a kids movie, so let put the bar there we can't expect more from this, and beside that it gives a nice message. The only thing that I don't really like about it was this constant over use of the green screen that makes the places way too unreal, other than that I kind of like it. Even reminds me a bit of The Neverending Story.

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Nicholas G

@RT03923471 Apr 1

This movie is hot trash, this is literary one of the worst Movies I've ever watched. And the acting is straight buns.

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Anthony S

@RT43296388 Mar 15

This is one of those movies that should have been a career killer for those involved. It is crazy to me that these talented actors and film makers can make a movie so bad. I thought that people just were just being mean to Oprah or something, but the truth is that this movie is just plain bad. Editing, terrible. Storytelling, bad. Characters I neither understood nor cared about. Acting, really really bad. I couldn't understand why the acting was so bad. The music throughout the movie was always soaring. But if every scene has that style of music...then nothing soars. I really did not understand how this movie got made. Or worse how no one tried to stop it from being released. Thankfully the people involved with this debacle recovered and went on to continue to make good films...but this one ain't it.

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David D

@David2026 Mar 11

This film is tweenage Stranger Things fan fiction. It has its own charm and, I imagine, Disney Park experience. So loaded with green screen, what else would it likely be repurposed for.

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Aiden B

@aidenb002 Jan 17

The visuals are amazing and the acting is good, but that’s all I can give this film credit for. I hate how they decided to modernize the setting when the original story is supposed to be a period piece. It’s not a horrible movie but it doesn’t really capture the essence of the book.

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Emily C

@RT18245101 Sep 19

Not a fan. Honestly my son and I got bored with it and wanted to turn it off. The only reason we finished it was it was my husband's pick for movie night

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Synopsis

Meg Murry and her little brother, Charles Wallace, have been without their scientist father, Mr. Murry, for five years, ever since he discovered a new planet and used the concept known as a tesseract to travel there. Joined by Meg's classmate Calvin O'Keefe and guided by the three mysterious astral travelers known as Mrs. Whatsit, Mrs. Who and Mrs. Which, the children brave a dangerous journey to a planet that possesses all the evil in the universe.

Director: Ava DuVernay
Producer: James Whitaker, Catherine Hand
Screenwriter: Jennifer Lee
Distributor: Walt Disney
Production Co: Whitaker Entertainment
Rating: PG (Thematic Elements|Some Peril)
Genre: Kids & Family, Fantasy, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Mar 9, 2018, Wide
Release Date (Streaming): Sep 24, 2018
Box Office (Gross USA): $100.5M
Runtime: 1h 49m
Sound Mix: Dolby Atmos
Aspect Ratio: Scope (2.35:1)