Steven King is rightly celebrated for his mastery of horror, but is much less praised for piercing, often unpleasant insight into the emotional interior of young people. Under the supernatural fear of the losers club in "IT" and the nostalgic pain in reviewing the year in the "body" (which has become a golden standard of Stories come from white boyfriend in "Stop beside me") lies deep exploration of fragile, formative relationships between boys; Their fears, their loyalty and their longing for a connection in a world that often denies an emotional vocabulary or permission to express. But the "long walk" has always been my favorite example of whitewashing friendships cherished between and from boys, allowing them to carry the same weight as any romantic Loveboy story. He claims, with painful clarity, that these relationships can form a person for the rest of their lives.

Garates and McDiers, such as personified by Hoffman and Onsonson, produce eternal chemistry set by the new strip for royal protagonists. From the moment they get to know each other, it's like having a gravitational traction between them that feels unhealthy and inevitably as the walk itself. The Maller's script pulled out a page Instructions for Frank Darawant when adjusting the "fog", Improving King's fantastic original material, reshaping the redistribution of character character among the duo in ways that feel equal parts respected and amazing. Nothing feels lost by condensing the book nearly 400 pages in less than two hours, and their relationship priority gives film urgency as well as high stakes as well as the walk itself.

Their Loveub, whether canonical to be platonic, romantic or something impossible to understand, unless under the circumstances of the walk, is the source of energy of the whole film, even when counting the body rises around them. Just as it can only be Garates and McDers, this film can only be led by Hoffman and Onsonson. Every conversation between a pair is transformed, with a quiet despair in every way, every step in tandem and every line delivered with the subtle earthquake of boys who know they are on borrowed time.

No matter how exhausted, desperate or in agony, you can't help, but you hope to continue to go. Not only to survive, but we, the audience, do not have to say goodbye to them.

/Movie rating: 9 out of 10

The "Long Walk" enters the theaters on September 12, 2025.