A Wrinkle in Time (2018)

2025-02-12

Black Directors & Black Leads for February’s theme we call “BODY & SOUL” and today we hit up a movie that has the distinction of being the highest budgeted movie by a black female director. While the movie did break even, it didn’t give Disney the sign to drain this property of all life ad nauseam. Ava DuVernay, director of “Selma” and the documentary “13th” has her praise out there but her 2018 adaptation of the Madeline L’Engle kids novel “A WRINKLE IN TIME” is a bizarre and stumbling feature film. We don’t mean bizarre in the way you might expect from this particular story. It stars Storm Reid, Oprah Winfrey, Reese Witherspoon, Mindy Kaling and Levi Miller. The young lead does well and the kids are innocent in this but everybody else doesn’t have any excuse. This movie might have one of the most annoying characters we’ve ever discussed for the show. Oprah sucks (more on that inside), Witherspoon sucks in this and incessant cuts and half assed displays of imagination overwhelmed what fleeting moments of quality we see pass quickly by. Seriously, who ever selected and wrote those quotes for Mindy Kaling, that entire concept, you should absolutely be embarrassed. Admittedly this would be a challenge to adapt well and it’s already a red flag to see it under the Disney banner. It takes a village for all things great and terrible. We’re lucky enough to find a lot of quality when we explore movie themes. We’ve got some solid quality this month already but sometimes a movie comes along and demands that you be underwhelmed. Hear us talk all about it.

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