(Toronto International Film Festival for Children, 25 April 2003)
I’m sorry, but apart from the fact that instantaneous travel through space always implies time travel, I didn’t see a lick of time travel in this version of Madeleine L’Engle’s classic. —Michael Main
(premiered at El Capitan Theatre, Los Angeles, 26 February 2018)
An unabashedly pretentious adaptation of L’Engle’s fine children’s, well deserving of the Rotten Tomatoes consensus that it’s “less than the sum of its parts.” Meg views her past, but with no actual time travel[font=Roboto, arial, sans-serif]™[/font]. —Michael Main