The Running Man

Name: The Running Man
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Released: November 14, 2025
Rating: 56

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Paramount Pictures | Release Date: November 14, 2025

Summary: In a near-future society, The Running Man is the top-rated show on television—a deadly competition where contestants, known as Runners, must survive 30 days while being hunted by professional assassins, with every move broadcast to a bloodthirsty public and each day bringing a greater cash reward. Desperate to save his sick daughter,In a near-future society, The Running Man is the top-rated show on television—a deadly competition where contestants, known as Runners, must survive 30 days while being hunted by professional assassins, with every move broadcast to a bloodthirsty public and each day bringing a greater cash reward. Desperate to save his sick daughter, working-class Ben Richards (Glen Powell) is convinced by the show’s charming but ruthless producer, Dan Killian (Josh Brolin), to enter the game as a last resort. But Ben’s defiance, instincts, and grit turn him into an unexpected fan favorite—and a threat to the entire system. As ratings skyrocket, so does the danger, and Ben must outwit not just the Hunters, but a nation addicted to watching him fall.… Expand

Genre(s): Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller

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The Telegraph Robbie Collin

Nov 11, 2025

It’s perhaps Wright’s first feature to feel, in a positive way, like the work of a director for hire: every flourish and trick here isn’t in service of a singular creative vision so much as a great, rumbling excitement machine. Read full review

Looper Dominic Griffin

Nov 11, 2025

The Running Man is such an enjoyable race while you're running it, but once you make it past the finish line and start reflecting on the experience, it leaves too much to be desired. Read full review

Thom Ernst

Nov 13, 2025

Wright may have made The Running Man the way he and King always wanted — just not necessarily the one we expected. Read full review

The Guardian Peter Bradshaw

Nov 11, 2025

The Running Man sometimes feels retro-futurist and steampunky, though it is always watchable and buoyant. Wright has hit a confident stride. Read full review

Barry Hertz

Nov 12, 2025

Presented with every opportunity to say or do something remotely new or compelling, Wright, typically a talented stylist, elects to shrug his shoulders, delivering a wafer-thin confection that is aggressively disinterested in both ideas and action. Read full review

David Rooney

Nov 11, 2025

Wright seems almost constrained by a film that ends up neither as compelling nor as deep nor as wildly entertaining as it seems to believe. Read full review

The Times Kevin Maher

Nov 11, 2025

It all ends with a grossly emetic monologue about how evil mass media is trying to “make us hate each other so they can steal from us”. And The Running Man is not part of the mass media how? Still, who doesn’t love Shaun of the Dead? Read full review

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