Americans missed the point of 2025's biggest movies — and it's not a new problem

Americans missed the point of 2025's biggest movies — and it's not a new problem

In The Running Man, Josh Brolin plays a wealthy villain running a TV network that makes millions by exploiting and murdering people living in desperate poverty, while using deepfakes and a well-honed propaganda machine to portray them as greedy, lazy, scary criminals. Wicked: For Good doesn’t emphasize wealth disparity quite that directly, but its villains live in obvious luxury while exploiting and abusing Oz’s most vulnerable population, drivi…