Ava DuVernay’s A Wrinkle in Time is the first $100 million feature to be directed by a woman of color. This is a big deal for the news chyrons and for DuVernay’s rising clout in an industry dominated by white males. But headlines about budgets and box-office returns give us critics the blues, because they rarely have anything to do with the art and politics of cinema. For … [Read more...]