‘The Running Man’ Conjures a Dystopian Vision of America That’s Still Not as Bad as Reality
WorldBy John Semley11/11/20251 min read
Edgar Wright’s violent, incoherent remake is hard to view as satire in a world where right-wing narratives and reality-TV-style ICE raids dominate the media.
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Thirty-eight years later, The Running Man is back on our screens, playing to a world that seems to have caught up with the originals idiocy. This new one features a considerably less bulky, but no le