TAKE A RUNNING SLUMP

MOVE IT Glen Powell's race to stay alive

- With DAMON SMITH

Take your pick of the athletic turns of phrase that suggest a disappointing outcome - run out of steam, run aground, run on empty, run dry, run out of luck - any of them could apply to director Edgar Wright's high-octane adaptation of Stephen King's 1985 dystopian thriller.

That book imagined the bleak authoritarian future of... 2025, replete with a government-controlled television network that broadcasts a bloodthirsty survival game show with one inevitable outcome.

Working-class father Ben Richards (Glen Powell) has been blacklisted for exposing corporate negligence and he struggles to find work to pay for medicine to save his gravely ill baby daughter.