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Reviews: The Long Walk (2025)

Governing Committee September 11, 2025 3 minutes read

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Here are review links for this film submitted by our members:

  • Allen Almachar @ The MacGuffin
    • Excerpt: Despite all the death and tragedy littered throughout, we come out of it with a sense of hope. Hope that whatever comes our way, we will be able to face it together.
  • Rick Aragon @ Rick’s Texan Reviews
    • Excerpt: The Long Walk gives us a dystopian world that did make the viewers care about the characters’ plight. While not without some issues, The Long Walk mostly works.
  • Andrea Chase @ KillerMovieReviews.com
    • Excerpt: A devastating gloss on war, actual and economic and political, of sending young men with their whole lives before them into a meat grinder where fairness and decency have no purchase. Where the ultimate battle is to keep your soul.
  • Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
    • Excerpt: The story itself isn’t anything new and most will predict exactly where it’s heading, but an extraordinary ensemble invests us in characters coming to grips with a dark fate.
  • Scott Davis @ Sci-Fi Now
    • Excerpt: Director Francis Lawrence, best known for his work on high-concept blockbusters like Constantine and The Hunger Games, pivots slightly into something more restrained and emotionally potent with The Long Walk, a quietly devastating yet uplifting film that will linger in your mind long after you leave the darkness of the cinema
  • Mark Hobin @ Fast Film Reviews
    • Excerpt: A depressing trudge through one cliché after another. By the end, I wasn’t rooting for the boys to survive; I was rooting for the credits to roll.
  • Kristian Lin @
    • Excerpt: This Stephen King adaptation is sadistic and glorious.
  • [new] | Jared Mobarak @ Hey, have you seen …?
    • Excerpt: Sometimes it’s nice to just let the mythology behind a dystopia serve as a backdrop for a tale of brotherly love that reminds us empathy and camaraderie are the truest form of rebellion against an authoritarian regime.
  • Jacob Oller @ The A.V. Club
    • Excerpt: As bloody and upsetting as King’s fable can get, at its heart, it’s a 100-minute walk-and-talk between some of the best young actors out there, shooting the shit and trying to stay sane while trudging through a trenchant metaphor.
  • Eddie Pasa @ DC Filmdom
  • Jeff Schaefer @ The Marquee Topic
    • Excerpt: No stranger to dystopian fiction, Francis Lawrence directs The Long Walk, an adaption of one of Stephen King’s first novels. Stars Cooper Hoffman, David Jonsson, Charlie Plummer, and Mark Hamill.
  • Dennis Schwartz @ dennisschwartzreviews
    • Excerpt: It’s another successful King novel whose screen adaptation is not as good as the book.
  • Josh Thayer @ The Forgetful Film Critic
    • Excerpt: The flaws in the original story and some baffling new choices by the filmmakers cause The Long Walk to be uneven, but not without its charms.

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