Buy tickets for The Strangers: Chapter 1!

The Darkest Minds

Find Movie Theaters & Showtimes

for
near
in
Hmm... we couldn't find any showtimes for this date and location.

Videos & Photos

  • What Happens Next?
  • Trailer A

Movie Info & Cast

Synopsis

We’ve seen the power of teens lately in the news. But The Darkest Minds takes it to a whole new level. This adaptation of Alexandra Bracken’s sci-fi young adult series of the same name follows the journey of 16-year-old Ruby, (Amandla Stenberg, best known as “Rue” in The Hunger Games), one of the few survivors in a dystopian future where a disease has killed 98% of all children. When the surviving children begin to develop superpowers that they have not yet learned how to control, they are rounded up by the government and put in camps. Ruby, who is one of the most powerful kids ever encountered, soon escapes the camps and joins other survivor runaways as they combine their newfound powers to fight for their future. Directed by Jennifer Yuh Nelson and written by Chad Hodge. Also starring Mandy Moore and Gwendoline Christie.

Cast

  • Mandy Moore
  • Gwendoline Christie
  • Amandla Stenberg
  • Harris Dickinson
  • Wallace Langham
  • Mark O'Brien
  • Golden Brooks
  • Patrick Gibson
  • Catherine Dyer
  • Skylan Brooks

Atom User Reviews

4.1 out of 5
440
263
179
52
19
POPULAR TAGS
#great
#lovestory
#mustsee
#intense
#actionpacked
#surprising
#fantasy
#seeingitagain
#inspiring
#greatcast
#datenight
#allthefeels
#familyfriendly
#clever
#justokay
#epic
#smart
#heartpounding
#predictable
#greatvisualfx
Buy tickets for Cabrini!
Verified Review
#seeingitagain
#mustsee

really good movie. definitely would watch it again!!!

CS
Christopher S
Verified Review

I didn’t read the book but I might have to now! Go see it so we get a sequel!

JW
Jessica W

Metacritic

38
Aug 3, 2018

The Darkest Minds never communicates the overwhelming horror of a society whose children are either dead or in the process of being exterminated, or the hopelessness of kids discovering that every potential benefactor may have ulterior motives.

Metacritic review by Jake Cole
Jake Cole
Slant Magazine
50
Jul 31, 2018

Young moviegoers who haven't yet tired of cookie-cutter dystopias will find a sympathetic protagonist played by Amandla Stenberg; but viewers who've taken this ride enough times to want, for instance, subtext addressing real-world oppression should look elsewhere.

Metacritic review by John DeFore
John DeFore
The Hollywood Reporter