2018 · action · adventure · drama
The Darkest Minds
Directed by Jennifer Yuh Nelson1h 45m2018
After a disease kills 98% of America's children, the surviving 2% develop superpowers and are placed in internment camps. A 16-year-old girl escapes her camp and joins a group of other teens on the run from the government.
Our read: The Darkest Minds (2018) reads as a sombre, breathless, grounded action · adventure · drama entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Sombre, breathless, extreme action / adventure, grounded in texture. Redemptive, epic, tender.
- sombre
- kinetic
- intense
- epic-stakes
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