Courtesy Twentieth Century FoxA group of boys known as the Gladers are trapped inside a mysterious and massive maze in “The Maze Runner.” Unsuitable for children under 10.

“The Maze Runner”

Rating: PG-13 for thematic elements and intense sequences of sci-fi violence and action, including some disturbing images.

What it’s about: A gang of boys are trapped inside a gigantic maze filled with gigantic spiders, with no memory of how they got there and no idea how to get out.

The kid-attractor factor: It’s “Hunger Games” in a maze.

Good lessons/bad lessons: “Rules hold us together,” but rules can trap you, too.

Violence: Lots of it — death by poison, stabbing and shooting.

Language: Scattered bits of profanity.

Sex: None.

Drugs: Homemade booze is consumed by teens.

Parents’ advisory: Quite violent for what it is, with blood and suffering and death. Unsuitable for kids under 10.

“Left Behind”

Rating: PG-13 for some thematic elements, violence/peril and brief drug content.

What it’s about: An airline pilot, a TV journalist, a pretty coed and others have to cope with a world where the Saved are suddenly summoned to heaven in The Rapture.

The kid-attractor factor: Religious dogma built into an action picture, with harrowing escapes, violence, anarchy.

Good lessons/bad lessons: When The Rapture comes, you kind of want atheists in the cockpit.

Violence: Yes, quite a bit, nothing that bloody.

Language: Pretty clean, considering all the people Left Behind supposedly know how to swear.

Sex: Infidelity is suggested, toyed with.

Drugs: A junkie worries she’s having a flashback.

Parents’ advisory: Not necessarily a movie for non-Christians, but the action and adult situations are mild enough that this is OK for 10-and-up.