Kurt Loder Reviews The Maze Runner and A Walk Among the Tombstones

Have we
reached dystopia overload yet? In a year that’s already provided us
with Divergentand The Giver, now
comes The Maze Runner, similarly drawn from the first
in a series of best-selling young adult sci-fi novels and once
again featuring a group of attractive youths trapped in an enclosed
society, where they’re being sorely tested for obscure reasons.
Kurt Loder writes that the story here is kind of interesting (and
promises to become more so in the already green-lit sequel), and
the movie’s target audience may well be drawn by the presence
of Teen Wolf star Dylan O’Brien
and Game of Thrones‘ Thomas Brodie-Sangster. Loder
also reviews A Walk Among the Tombstones, which features
Liam Neeson as his trademark troubled butt-kicking
character. 

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