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MARIA DUARTE sees a sci-fi fantasy that ticks all the boxes for its target audience
SYLVIA HIKINS recommends a sweeping survey of the world's biggest desert and the people who live there
MICHAL BONCZA highly recommends a revelatory exhibition of work by the doyen of indigenous Australians’ art, Emily Kam Kngwarray
The Bard commutes to work for the first time in 45 years
DAVID RENTON is puzzled by an ambitious attempt to look back on world culture from the future without engaging with or understanding it
GORDON PARSONS is riveted by a translation of Shakespeare’s tragedy into joyous comedy set in a southern black homestead
GEORGE FOGARTY relishes the music of black British artists that channels Carribbean, Latin and club sounds, along with contemporary west African radicalism
A Wrinkle in Time (PG)
Directed by Ava Du Vernay
ITS premise may be a simple one — good versus evil, light versus dark, with the power of love winning the day — but it is this film's strong and relentless heroine, coupled with its exquisite and breathtaking visuals, that will captivate and blow away its tween audience.
A Wrinkle in Time is based on Madeleine L’Engle’s timeless classic about middle-school student Meg (Storm Reid) who, accompanied by younger brother Charles Wallace (Deric McCabe) and friend/secret crush Calvin (Levi Miller), is sent on a life-changing quest by three celestial beings (Oprah Winfrey, Reese Witherspoon and Mindy Kaling) to rescue her renowned physicist father (Chris Pine).
He's fallen into the clutches of IT, an evil entity that is devouring worlds and is heading for Earth.
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