The Long Walk

Name: The Long Walk
Genre: Horror
Released: September 12, 2025
Rating: 71

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Lionsgate | Release Date: September 12, 2025

Summary: A group of teenage boys compete in an annual contest known as The Long Walk, where they must maintain a certain walking speed or get shot.

Genre(s): Horror

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Lauren Milici

Sep 2, 2025

The Long Walk is not for the faint of heart, but it is one of the best Stephen King adaptations ever made, and one of the best dystopian sci-fi movies to hit the big screen in a really long time. Read full review

Slashfilm BJ Colangelo

Sep 2, 2025

The Long Walk is an emotionally obliterating all-time great Stephen King adaptation, and undoubtedly one of the best films of 2025. Read full review

The Film Verdict Alonso Duralde

Sep 11, 2025

This is gut-punch, feel-bad studio filmmaking, all the more notable for how rarely it happens. Read full review

Justin Clark

Sep 7, 2025

This ferocious adaptation of Stephen King’s 1979 novella as a passion play about class solidarity. Read full review

RogerEbert.com Clint Worthington

Sep 11, 2025

The concept, in classic King fashion, is simple but alluring, and designed to explore the kind of adolescent male bonding the author honed in works like Stand by Me and IT. Read full review

Next Best Picture Giovanni Lago

Sep 2, 2025

In the end, The Long Walk is a brutal yet strangely moving reminder that sometimes it is not about the destination at all, it is about the grueling path that gets us there. Read full review

Movie Nation Roger Moore

Sep 12, 2025

The resolution’s both predictable and perfunctory. “Unsatisfying” comes with the package, and that goes for the movie itself — lazy pop psychology, underdeveloped sociology and psychology and an allegory that never comes close to sticking the landing. Read full review

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