The Runner
Directed by Kevin Macdonald
Maia Marten, a brilliant London lawyer, has her life shattered by a single call on her morning run: her son has been taken. To get him back, she must keep running, obey every ruthless command, and trust no one-each second a test of how far a mother will go to save her child. From TMDB
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The Runner debuted at No. 2 on the worldwide Prime Video movie chart and ranked among the top 10 in several European countries and Canada. It reached No. 1 in the United Kingdom and the United States, surpassing films including Project Hail Mary, Masters of the Universe, and Icefall. Streaming analytics firm FlixPatrol, which monitors daily updated VOD charts and streaming ratings worldwide, reported that the film ranked first in 38 countries by September 4, two days after its release, and continued to appear among the top-ranked titles in more than 50 territories. During the week of September 7–13, The Runner ranked No. 2 on Prime Video's list of the most-watched English-language films,…
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60 of 170 · most liked firstI watched the new Netflix movie THE RUNNER and I swear to God it could have been filmed on a giant hamster wheel.
negative · AI labelView post →just three watches this week (The Runner left in from the previous week) but two flicks i saw were at TIFF so that was fun. #LastFourWatched #LetterboxdFriday #Letterboxd #Filmsky 🍿
neutral · AI labelView post →Some actors get showcases. Gal Gadot gets made an example of. Wrote about The Runner, an exquisitely stupid Amazon bomb www.avclub.com/the-runner-r...
negative · AI labelView post →Is Amazon MGM's The Runner the worst movie of the year? It's up there with last year's pitiful The War of the Worlds. Gal Gadot runs around London talking to herself in this running joke of a thriller; if you're thinking of watching...Gadon't bother. 1 out of 5. film-authority.com/2026/09/08/t...
negative · AI labelView post →Wait a minute - you're telling me there's a movie called "Runner" AND a movie called "The Runner" coming out within a week of each other? That has gotta be the lamest fucking Antz/Bug's Life shit I've ever seen.
neutral · AI labelView post →And... yet another Gal Gadot film is shaping up to be a disaster Gal Gadot is playing the victim like every dutiful Zionist does, this time with 'The Runner' - but it's right activists have taken a stand www.thecanary.co/trending/202...
neutral · AI labelView post →I'm not saying The Runner is as delightful as War Of The Worlds, but I am saying that Amazon is building up a solid library of original films for bad movie sickos
neutral · AI labelView post →Gal Gadot says she ran like "Phoebe from 'Friends'' before training for her latest film "The Runner." #GalGadot #TheRunner
neutral · AI labelView post →-‘Songs From the Second Floor’: Absolute satirical masterpiece from Roy Andersson -‘Les Biches’: Intriguing Chabrol love triangle -‘The Runner’: One of the best characters in all of film. Shot at the Strait of Hormuz -‘The Stone Wedding’: Two Romanian folk tales #LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched
neutral · AI labelView post →New ep of the podcast!! Reactions to Wolverine's bad PS5 reviews and future Spider-Man speculation plus a best/worst review for Runner (not The Runner) and Maso's watched Korean monster movie, Hope! Available on all podcast apps #weeklyplanetpod
neutral · AI labelView post →It is absolutely stunning that THE RUNNER is not the worst movie I saw this week.
negative · AI labelView post →Gal Gadot’s ‘The Runner’ Nets A Single-Digit Rotten Tomatoes Review Score www.forbes.com/sites/paulta...
neutral · AI labelView post →Nothing makes sense, nothing works, Gal Gadot can't sell a single line of dialogue, and even Damian Lewis is at a loss. My review of THE RUNNER - which would have been a fun episode of TASKMASTER but is, instead, just a very bad film - is at @thewrap.com.
negative · AI labelView post →Unrelated but yesterday I got an ad for some new Prime slop movie where Gadot was running in the trailer and I thought "Gal Gadot is...The Runner" And it turns out that was the name of the movie
neutral · AI labelView post →Pro life, pro Palestinian protesters disrupted the filming of Izrahelli actress Gal GadOut's latest movie The Runner in London. #GenocideBarbie #GalGadOut #BoycottTheRunner #RockwoodPictures
neutral · AI labelView post →The Polaroids I shot for Boy Harsher’s short film “The Runner” 💋
neutral · AI labelView post →Some PIGEONHOLED updates! I'm very excited to share that the film was the Runner-Up Rookie of the Year - 2D Animation at The Rookie Awards! This is a tremendous honor, and I am super grateful! Thank you to everyone at The Rookies for the award!
neutral · AI labelView post →There’s kind of a glimpse of the harebrained thriller THE RUNNER could’ve been. But Gal Gadot and the film aren’t in on the joke. My review
negative · AI labelView post →The Runner (the bad Gadot one, NOT the good Runner from this week’s pod guest Scott Waugh) has already reached the Honest Trailers stage. Time for a @hdtgm.bsky.social episode? m.youtube.com/watch?v=w1d2...
neutral · AI labelView post →Gal Gadot does everything she can to keep Prime Video's The Runner, well, running, but despite some decent set pieces, the film is ultimately unsatisfying.
neutral · AI labelView post →We're waiting on our project so me & the team are watching "The Runner" with Gal Godot. This might be one of the greatest fleeces in cinematic history because Gal is offensively bad in this movie.
negative · AI labelView post →We spent the day disrupting Gal Gadot's The Runner. The picture is of her stunt double in blue. The film will have to be dubbed
neutral · AI labelView post →so there's a movie called The Runner with Gal Gadot and a movie called Runner with Owen Wilson and Chris Pratt Hulk from Reacher? Hollywood you're doing great
neutral · AI labelView post →Gal Gadot does everything she can to keep The Runner, well, running, but despite some decent set pieces, the film is ultimately unsatisfying. Our review: https://bit.ly/4dgBSEG
neutral · AI labelView post →Boy Harsher's short horror film/visual album THE RUNNER has been given the Yellow Veil Blu-ray treatment, and I am so thrilled to have an essay on the film included in this release. On pre-order now from Vinegar Syndrome! vinegarsyndrome.com/collections/...
neutral · AI labelView post →In 2024, I had the honor to talk with actor Kathleen Quinlan about her experiences working with the great Stanley Kramer on his last film, “The Runner Stumbles.” fireandwaterpodcast.com/podcast/fo33/
neutral · AI labelView post →This week's Saturday evening movie was The Runner with Gal Gadot. It's not great. She runs through different London locations trying to save her son. Unfortunately she's not the best actor & the direction is all over the place. Best to avoid.
negative · AI labelView post →Slightly confused that Big Man From Reacher has a movie called Runner and Gal Gadot a movie called The Runner coming out within two weeks of each other. That seemed... avoidable?
neutral · AI labelView post →There's a movie coming out tomorrow on Prime, the service that made Alan Ritchson a star, called The Runner but it stars Gal Gadot. There's a movie coming out in theaters next week called Runner. The latter stars Ritchson. There is also a movie from 2013 called Runner Runner.
neutral · AI labelView post →Just want to add that Criterion has a great collection of Iranian cinema, I watched The Runner last night and it's easily one of the most beautiful films I have watched in recent memory.
neutral · AI labelView post →I saw a post saying "GAL GADOT FILM THE RUNNER BOMBS" and was like "But she's not on the poster on the bus stop?"
neutral · AI labelView post →Jenna Maroney: I was up for the lead in a movie made by an online bookstore called "The Runner." She runs. Like, a lot. Liz Lemon: I've seen you run before, is that wise? Jenna Maroney: It doesn't matter, they cast Gal Gadot instead. *shows the entirety of this film as a cutaway scene*
neutral · AI labelView post →Amazon has announced the titles arriving on its Prime Video platform in September 2026, including the original film premieres THE RUNNER and THE LOVE HYPOTHESIS. Here’s the full breakdown: whentostream.com/heres-whats-...
neutral · AI labelView post →It's weird that this year had a movie called Runner and one called The Runner.
neutral · AI labelView post →THE RUNNER star Gal Gadot is out and about promoting the film in a look that says "I'd rather not be perceived right now, if you don't mind" tomandlorenzo.com/2026/09/gal-...
neutral · AI labelView post →Gal Gadot gives it her all in Prime Video’s The Runner but even her performance is not enough to save the film from its atrocious screenplay.
negative · AI labelView post →#NowWatching from (1968) Dick Van Dyke's best performance in a movie and it's not really close. He didn't make that many movies. Cold Turkey and The Runner Stumbles are fine performances not this is my go to "DVD" role. The songs he sings on are fantastic also the dancing
neutral · AI labelView post →My #1 Pick would be the MCU Blade movie. The Runner-up would be the theatrical animated Batman Beyond made with the artstyle similar to the Sony Spider-Verse movies.
neutral · AI labelView post →Gal Gadot has landed another movie role. Kevin Macdonald's The Runner, now filming in London. Degenerate people like Gadot who cheer on genocide, and those who choose to work with them, should be badgered and disrupted wherever they go. Three cheers for London activists! 👏👏👏 #FreePalestine
neutral · AI labelView post →I wonder if the spy-assassin Mr. Blade Runner would have driven a Cybertruck in the multiple-film franchise The Runner Universe, had it been available.
neutral · AI labelView post →#ShudderFridayNightMovie The Runner: 40 minute movie spotlight for electronic act Boy Harsher’s music, reminded me of the Adult Swim shorts by Casper Kelly.
neutral · AI labelView post →Watching The Runner staring Gal Gadot. The aspect ratio is 4:3? For a film that's meant to be speed but running. Worse still, she often runs from right to left. Forward motion is left to right. I thought everyone knew that.
negative · AI labelView post →Here's me on The Runner, Gal Gadot's enjoyably shitty lesson in how not to lead a movie bsky.app/profile/avcl...
negative · AI labelView post →There's a Gal Gadot action movie coming to Prime Video in September called THE RUNNER, then an Alan Ritchson action movie opening in theaters a week later called RUNNER, just in case you think originality in movies is dead.
neutral · AI labelView post →saw THE PHILADELPHIA EXPERIMENT from 1984 today - I have literally zero memory of this movie existing BUT it does have Mannfred Mann's Earth Band's "The Runner" which is as 1984 as it gets
neutral · AI labelView post →She has to do the sequel to her hit movie eventually. The Runner: Up.
neutral · AI labelView post →There was a movie titled THE RUNNER released last week, I think we're running (sorry) out of words
neutral · AI labelView post →Odd coincidence that there are two films out this month that have “Runner” as a title. A key difference is that The Runner is a streaming movie that stars Gal Gadot, a piece of shit, while Runner is being theatrically released by Angel, a company of pieces of shit. Pick your poison.
neutral · AI labelView post →That's quite the claim, Sonar from Dispatch... especially considering there's been no shortage of "Worst Film of 2026" candidates... (The film in question is Gal Gadot's The Runner BTW)
neutral · AI labelView post →Looks like movie goers  will be running away from The Runner lol
negative · AI labelView post →The Runner ⭐️1/2 "I think I'm only watching this movie because it's called "The Runner" and next week there is a movie called "Runner" and I started getting the press for the two movies confused and only just realized they were two different movies, so I need to finality on which one is which."
negative · AI labelView post →Underrated subplot in Movies 2026 was how there was a movie called Runner and a totally different movie called The Runner that were released in theaters at roughly the same time.
neutral · AI labelView post →Amazing how an action movie called "The Runner", and another action movie called "Runner" both came out within a couple weeks of each other last month and one is pretty bad while the other is at least kind of a fun action movie
negative · AI labelView post →A stripped-back, mean, lean action-thriller set across the byways of London keeps the heart racing. Read the review: www.filmreviewdaily.com/new-reviews/... #TheRunner #GalGadot #FilmReview
neutral · AI labelView post →a strong performance as a runner in the movie. The role could perfectly have been played by Jasmine Jae, now 45, since both are athletic and tall, with long legs. But back to The Runner. If you enjoy movies like Speed and Liberty Stands Still, The Runner will certainly captivate
positive · AI labelView post →They had one in that new Amazon film, The Runner. Oh wait, that was Gal Gadot.
neutral · AI labelView post →This week on the Bad Movie Roast... Korey, Martin and Billy induct globetrotting Gal Gadot into the upper echelon of their Fastest Reviews-To-Roasts as THE RUNNER gets Double Toasted!
neutral · AI labelView post →I tried to go on IMDB and look up a movie I actually want to watch but was bombarded by ads for THE RUNNER starring Owen Wilson. His character is sure to be the same character Owen Wilson always plays in everything, himself. I really tire of him, please let me just look up my sci-fi schlock.
negative · AI labelView post →Also this having basically the same title as that shitty Gal Gadot movie (The Runner) is so confusing, I thought they were the same movie until I looked at it
neutral · AI labelView post →is this The Runner or some different film?
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