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Showing posts with label YA. Show all posts
Showing posts with label YA. Show all posts
Wednesday, March 28, 2018

'The Darkest Minds' Trailer: A Little Bit 'X-Men' A Little Bit 'Hunger Games'

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Movies franchises based on a series of young adult novels have, let’s just call it a checkered past. For every Harry Potter and Hung...
Thursday, March 17, 2016

Movie Review: 'The Divergent Series: Allegiant'

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There’s a definite hierarchy in the world of dystopian young adult movie adaptations. The Hunger Games obviously ruled the roost for f...
Thursday, November 19, 2015

Movie Review: 'The Hunger Games: Mockingjay-Part 2'

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As the title implies, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay—Part 2 is not a movie that tells a complete story. While last year’s Mockingjay—Par...
Thursday, September 17, 2015

'Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials' Movie Review

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At the tail end of last summer, director Wes Ball dropped yet another adaptation of yet another dystopian young adult novel into our la...
Thursday, March 19, 2015

'Insurgent' Movie Review: A Murderous Fever Dream Mixed With Tepid Teen Melodrama

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The Divergent Series: Insurgent , the latest chapter in The Hunger Games heir apparent, is a flaming-hot, crazy-ass train wreck. And I...
Thursday, November 20, 2014

'The Hunger Games: Mockingjay-Part1' Movie Review: All Smoke, No Fire

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There are parts of The Hunger Games: Mockingjay—Part 1 that are harrowing, moving, and action-packed. While that can be fun to watch, ...
Friday, September 19, 2014

'The Maze Runner' Movie Review

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Reading James Dashner’s best-selling young adult novel The Maze Runner , I wasn’t particularly impressed. That said, this is one of those...
Thursday, August 14, 2014

'The Giver' Movie Review

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The Giver is set in a bland dystopian world where all color, joy, and emotion has been sucked out of life. Everything that has ever prov...