When you’ve been a film critic as long as I have (10 years! WHUT), at the start of every screening you hope — nay, you yearn — for something new. Something you haven’t seen before. It doesn’t have to be a new story or plot, necessarily.

In The Darkest Minds, a mutant teenage fugitive strives to outwit an oppressive government in a dystopian future where a pandemic has killed most of America’s children and left the surviving children with psychic powers. Sound intriguing enough? We think so.