15 Brilliant YA Movies That Guided Us Through the 2010s

The Maze Runner franchise never gained the same level of recognition as The Hunger Games or Harry Potter franchises, but the first installment in the series creates a fast-faced, vivid dystopian world that instantly pulls you in. Dylan O'Brien is excellent as Thomas, a young man who is dropped into a labyrinth with no memory of his life before, and he and the rest of the cast never fail to make the stakes feel real in the fantasy setting.