Read moreThat Witherspoon looks like a toga party keg-stand champion befits DuVernay’s modern vision of a paperback classic bedazzled to within an inch of its life. Winfrey alights in Meg and Charles Wallace’s backyard as though astrologically assured that she’s the star of the film. “Tomorrow there’ll be more of us,” chimps Kaling, mercifully cutting the Hamilton lyrics short before the moment gets more awkward. In a film flattened under the weight of too much more, the line at first sounds like a threat. DuVernay’s truest vision is that this world – not just our paths to faraway planets – has to bend.

Source: The Guardian March 07, 2018 17:00 UTC