*In “The Darkest Minds,” opening this Friday (08-03-18), when teens mysteriously develop powerful new abilities, they are seen as a threat by the government and sent to detainment camps.

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"The Hunger Games" stoked a hunger for young-adult fiction that has birthed plenty of wannabes, few of which have felt more generic and derivative than "The Darkest Minds." Kicking off a planned ...

In the first 10 minutes of The Darkest Minds, Chad Hodge’s inane script thinks it’s necessary to spoon-feed the audience with every available form of exposition. We get a voiceover explaining that ...

*Not able to make a Wednesday afternoon screening of “The Darkest Minds,” I caught the Thursday night consumers’ showing. What better barometer to predict the outcome of a picture than the audiences ...

ATLANTA — When Whitney Houston sang “I believe the children are our future/ Teach them well and let them lead the way …” in her 1985 cover of George Benson’s “The Greatest Love of All,” perhaps she ...

From “The Hunger Games” to “Harry Potter,” dystopian young adult science fiction has become a favorite device for unpacking the complexities of the real world. The new film “The Darkest Minds,” based ...

Kids separated from their families and placed in detention camps. Teenagers rising up to push back against an overbearing system. Today we know those by familiar hashtags #FamiliesBelongTogether and ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. From “The Hunger Games” to “Harry Potter,” dystopian young adult science fiction has become a favorite device for unpacking the ...