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Film reviews: The Baltimorons; The Long Walk; Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale
Director Francis Lawrence has finally found a story about a post-apocalyptic competition of attrition that has some real allegorical heft and contemporary resonance to it—despite being based on 50-year-old source material.
The Long Walk The Baltimorons Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale The Long Walk After overseeing four Hunger Games features, director Francis Lawrence has finally found a story about a post-apocalyptic competition of attrition that has some real allegorical heft and contemporary resonance to it—despite being based on 50-year-old source material.
Adapted from the early Stephen King novel that was one of his pseudonymous "Richard Bachman" books, it's set in an America economically devastated by war, where an annual competition for a huge prize sends one representative from each of the 50…
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