By skyforbes 
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(4.5/5) Directed by: Edgar Wright
Written by: Michael Bacall, Edgar Wright
Starring: Glen Powell, Josh Brolin, Katy O’Brien, Colman Domingo Released: November 14, 2025
A Dystopian Nightmare Rooted in Real-World Inequality
Edgar Wright’s The Running Man stars Glen Powell as Ben Richards, a man punished for the crime of doing the right thing. In Wright’s razor-edged dystopia, surveillance is constant, the government is openly fascist, and corporations own not just the labor force but the truth itself. When a coworker is injured on the job, Ben passes the information to a union organizer. His reward? Blacklisting. Firing. A sudden erasure from even the most dangerous and degrading jobs left to the poor.
At home, Ben and his wife, Sheila, are barely surviving. She works double shifts at a sleazy nightclub to keep food on the table for their infant daughter. When the baby falls dangerously ill, the medicine that can save her is wildly overpriced — as everything essential is in this…