'A Wrinkle in Time' review: Even Oprah can't save disappointing fantasy dud

Storm Reid is Meg Murry. Disney

Storm Reid is Meg Murry. Disney

Ava DuVernay's "A Wrinkle in Time" is a landmark film even before it hits the theaters.

Perhaps DuVernay's most canny move lies in her casting, which involves some familiar faces reframed in fantastical dimensions, as well as marvelous discoveries.

"Because it is not just one thing". Was it intimidating to take this tale to the big screen? I saw it in 3D, and I think that added to the beauty of some of these scenes, particularly the one in which chatty crimson flowers are so wondrous to behold. Whenever I engage in a project like A Wrinkle in Time, I have to find within myself complete clarity about telling the story - why I'm telling it and why it matters to me. The actress, whose Instagram bio declares that she's a "future filmmaker", has been in the business for about a decade now, making her feature-film debut in the 2013 best-picture victor 12 Years a Slave. Once I have that sort of set in my head, I feel confident. I wish my younger self could have seen this. It's a story with multiple layers that both adults and kids can read and enjoy.

"They [Marvel] asked me to consider making it three years ago", DuVernay said.

Among the core themes of the original novel were the ideas that children could solve tough problems, that uniqueness was better than conformity (in a subtle criticism of communism), and most importantly, forgiveness. I kept expecting a big reveal that would wrap these insane frayed ends together and help the story make sense to me, but it never came.

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The pacing of the film is tedious with too much set-up and speeches from the three celestial beings.

He looks up to Ava as an older sister, and his affection and admiration for her professionalism and body of work is very evident here. "'The wound is the place where the light enters you' - Rumi, Persian", she says.

He also penned his thanks to fans after audiences came out in droves to see the film on its opening weekend. We understand the connection between Chris Pine and his movie and we feel the longing that his family has to reunite with him, which lends itself to a few emotional moments. This is a film that really should have been on par with Peter Jackson's "Lord of the Rings" saga. She's unpopular and bullied, leading to aggressive behavior.

The cinematic approach "fails at things the book won't fail at" but "succeeds at things that the book can't do" according to Lee.

There's a feeling that lives within the movie. His love of science shows in the kids - they have big vocabularies and easily talk about physics and fractals. There's love in every frame of this film. Reid didn't get a chance to meet the trio-even after she notched a small part in the DuVernay-directed Jay-Z video "Family Feud". Its success rides exclusively on its ability to touch that core audience in the way that DuVernay's superb films Selma, 13th and Middle of Nowhere played to smart-thinking adults. "But I'm glad that they brought Blue Ivy to get the message and inspire her". Is that important for you? She is all of these things, but sometimes I forget she is human. And I believed it was what she did for me, that character. And the ability for people to come from a dark place and be able to rise out to a place that's much better than where they started. "Sure, I can function on the same level as everybody else". They sought the banning of the book from libraries and schools because of this for fear that it would influence children.

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