The Maze Runner (2014)

FILM4, 6.50PM ★★★★

A group of teenage boys live in a meadow at the heart of a giant labyrinth: no one knows why they’re there, or what lies beyond the maze’s shifting walls, until the arrival of new 16-year-old Thomas (Dylan O’brien) starts a sudden push for freedom. This lean and tense adaptation of James Dashner’s young adult sci-fi series makes good on its wildly intriguing premise, with a hint of Lord of the Flies.