The Long Walk

Directed by Francis Lawrence (R)

★★★

Though the latest adaptation of a Stephen King novel could be described as Lord of the Flies on foot, said in NYMag.com , “it’s really more like The Hunger Games for dudes,” in a good way. The established film franchise and this movie even have the same director, here dramatizing King’s decades-old story about a brutal contest in which dozens of young men seeking a cash prize agree to walk until all but one have been shot dead by military overseers for failing to keep the designated pace.

As in a war movie , the brutal violence of this film “allows it to get sentimental,” with Cooper Hoffman and David Jonsson playing contestants who form a believably complex biracial friendship that’s used to ratchet up the pathos. “The viole

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