NIGHT FIVE: The Long Walk (2025)

THE LONG WALK

(2025, dir. Francis Lawrence, 108 min.)

Starring Cooper Hoffman, David Jonsson, and Mark Hamill

My second current theatrical release of the challenge. I hadn't read the original novel, nor was I necessarily won over by the grim sensationalism of the trailers, nor the promise of Francis Lawrence as director, but I was curious to see how it executed on the premise.

And I was pleasantly surprised at how grounded and humane it ended up being, reminding me in places of some of the great counterculture movies of the '60s and '70s, as well as how it captured King's voice as a populist storyteller.

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Review of ‘The Long Walk’ (2025) ★★★★

HOOPTOBER XII NIGHT FIVE: My second current theatrical release of the challenge. I hadn't read the original novel, nor was I necessarily won over by the grim sensationalism of the trailers, nor the…