A disease that wipes out 98% of the world’s children. Government roundups that send the survivors to concentration-camp-like rehabilitation facilities. Heavily armed “tracers” tasked with hunting down ...

Sisters, brothers. Fellow worshipers at the altar of popular culture. I come before you today to speak in defense of a most maligned and misunderstood niche in the entertainment firmament: the ...

Reporting from San Diego — “The Darkest Minds” is set in a future where the very few children who survive a mysterious pandemic are thrown into internment camps for gaining superpowers. But shooting ...

The Darkest Minds begins in an elementary school cafeteria rather than the middle of a revolution. Ruby Daly (Lidya Jewett) witnesses one of her classmates die for the first time, the result of ...

It’s tempting to mock every new entrant into the post-apocalyptic tween romance canon, of which The Darkest Minds is firmly a part. It’s set in a world where a virus has killed off most of the Earth’s ...

The Darkest Minds might appeal to its target demographic, but they deserve something that isn't this poorly paced or this unoriginal. Director: Jennifer Yuh Nelson Summary: Imprisoned by an adult ...

'The Darkest Minds' is an adaptation of book one of Alexandra Bracken's young-adult trilogy that's about five years and 15 movie dystopias too late to feel the least bit fresh or interesting. Kids ...

Reporting from 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 ...

"The more that I try to control it, the more damage that I do..." 20th Century Fox has unveiled the first trailer for a superpowers movie titled The Darkest Minds, the live-action debut of Kung Fu ...

While it may feel like we're living in the waning days of pop YA sci-fi/fantasy-lit film adaptations (an era ushered in by Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone in 2001 and one that lived large ...