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By Jim Slotek (879) for Original-Cin (1,156) on 01 Aug 2018

It’s hard to imagine The Darkest Minds becoming the franchise it was intended to be…

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By Mick Lasalle (3,303) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 01 Aug 2018

The movie is 105 minutes long but seems about 45 minutes longer, with uneventful stretches and at least three sections where the action stops…

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By Tina Hassannia (118) for National Post (1,405) on 01 Aug 2018

It's [a] lack of thoughtfulness that should have kept The Darkest Minds on the never-ending stack of other unimaginative, copycat YA screenplays,…

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By Juanma Fernández París (79) for El Nuevo Día (76) on 01 Aug 2018

Despite an interesting and sharp performance from Amandla Stenberg, the film registers as another superficial variation of a film that is more…

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By Jake Cole (292) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 01 Aug 2018

The Darkest Minds never communicates the overwhelming horror of a society whose children are either dead or in the process of being exterminated,…

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By Jonathan Barkan (61) for Dread Central (388) on 01 Aug 2018

Boring, predictable, uneven, and clunky, The Darkest Minds is simply not worth the money or time…

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By Clayton Davis (240) for AwardsCircuit.com (450) on 01 Aug 2018

From the producers of Stranger Things and Arrival, this ain't any of those…

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By Dana Schwartz (34) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 01 Aug 2018

There is no resolution for any of the story lines haphazardly dangling like electrical wires…

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By Germain Lussier (60) for io9.com (258) on 01 Aug 2018

An interesting, beautiful-looking movie that gets increasingly frustrating as plot lines are left in the dust, relationships are forced together,…

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By Julian Roman (454) for MovieWeb (460) on 01 Aug 2018

The Darkest Minds is badly edited and lacks a cohesive flow. Readers of the book will know the setup, but it's a head scratcher for us neophytes…

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By Mark Dujsik (2,093) for Mark Reviews Movies (2,037) on 01 Aug 2018

Another adaptation of a young-adult novel that seems more concerned with its sequels than itself…

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By Rebecca Pahle (171) for Film Journal International (5,095) on 01 Aug 2018

The Darkest Minds isn’t atrocious so much as it’s just plain dull, which is a worse kind of bad to be…

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By Frank Swietek (3,473) for One Guy's Opinion (3,473) on 01 Aug 2018

Derivative, predictable and dull despite much hectic action, it ends with the foreshadowing of a sequel you know will never come, the very…

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By Bruce Demara (410) for Toronto Star (3,601) on 01 Aug 2018

Among Ruby's special psychic powers is the ability to erase herself from the memory of others…

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By Pablo A. Scholz (320) for Clarín (492) on 01 Aug 2018

The issue is that something did not quite come together, and The Darkest Minds is a hybrid. [Full review in Spanish]…

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By Brian Lowry (913) for CNN.com (607) on 01 Aug 2018

For all the talk about colors, though, and the palette that's represented within the movie's ambitions, The Darkest Minds ultimately proves…

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By James Berardinelli (4,524) for ReelViews (4,523) on 01 Aug 2018

I suppose it’s possible to argue that The Darkest Minds can be enjoyed for what it is…

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By Jimmyo (378) for JoBlo's Movie Emporium (1,959) on 01 Aug 2018

THE DARKEST MINDS feels like it perhaps should have come out five years ago…

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By Sean P. Means (2,056) for The Movie Cricket (81) on 01 Aug 2018

There's not quite enough oomph to sustain this story into more chapters…

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By Lindsey Bahr (430) for Associated Press (1,685) on 01 Aug 2018

The story is not only derivative of so many other dystopias and kids with power sagas, but, and perhaps worst of all, it never even really…

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