The Road

  • 2009


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74 % Certified Fresh
$ 0 Million
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Positive Reviews 84
Negative reviews 17
Average Rating 3.6/5
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3.2
Hillcoat gives the film a remarkably evocative backdrop, but the drama lacks depth and dimension, and the scenes tend to blur together. Av Club
3.5
But the prevailing mood of panic and dread keeps the movie going over the many rough patches, accumulating tension with each go round. Av Club
1.5
Points off for Nick Cave and Warren Ellis disappointingly mawkish score, which tips the balance more than it should.) Av Club
3.0
Hillcoats rendering of McCarthys words cant be faulted for its visual replication of the authors grim picture of mankinds final days. Austin Chronicle
0.5
No ones heart seems to be in the affair, and the paint by numbers comedy just doesnt sell itself. Austin Chronicle
4.5
As Iqbal muses: You dont fit in back home, and you dont fit in here either. Screen Daily
1.5
Theres a little bit of hope mixed in with a whole lot of death and gray hues, but you cant enjoy watching this end of the world its too glum. Collider
4.4
The Road evokes the images and the characters of Cormac McCarthys novel. It is powerful, but for me lacks the same core of emotional feeling. Im not s .. Rogerebert
2.0
Its not exactly seasonal or feel good fare.Hillcoat would probably take that as a compliment. Telegraph
3.5
You wont find anything entertaining in The Road but maybe youll find something else. Cinema Blend
4.0
But this films unique, near total bleakness is something to admire. Ny Daily News
3.5
The man and the boy, the cart, the road McCarthy and Hillcoat reduce life to a bleak essence. Philly
3.8
The Road isnt a masterpiece.The stark simplicity of the story, the drudgery of survival not to mention its grisly George Romero moments sometimes thwa .. Philly
1.5
One can either embrace McCarthys laconic tone or ignore itHillcoat does neither. Village Voice
3.1
McCarthys book is about challenging expectations, while Hillcoats movie is about matching them as they exist before McCarthys subversion. Mark Reviews Movies
4.4
At the heart of this bleak story are two astounding performances. Usa Today
4.5
The Road is an awesome piece of cinema and truly great in every sense of the word. FilmiBeat
2.5
I expected this movie to be totally depressing, but it isnt that bad. Lariat
3.0
If youre still concerned about the film and its appropriateness for yourself or anyone else in your home who may be interested in seeing it, we sugges .. Screen It
4.0
Its the end of the world, all right, but no one feels in the least bit fine.Quite what caused the end of the world is never specified. Independent
2.0
The Road offers an allegory of misery and dread that is crushing, not because it denies humanistic feeling but because it defies cinemagoing pleasure. .. Independent
4.5
Penhalls script and Hillcoats direction both managing to convey lightness within the heavy narrative while staying strongly grounded. Shadows On The Wall
2.5
The concept album that is Arethas Gold follows the chronology of Aretha Franklins hits, all released in 1967 and 1968, apex years of the decade not ju .. Pop Matters
3.5
The concept album that is Arethas Gold follows the chronology of Aretha Franklins hits, all released in 1967 and 1968, apex years of the decade not ju .. Pop Matters
5.0
In addition, theres a great score from Nick Cave and Warren Ellis.The Road is a powerful, thought provoking and frequently uncomfortable drama, but it .. View London
3.1
It could refer to decency and goodness, the guttering spark of humanity. Boston
4.5
It calls on all of ones powers of emotional endurance but it rewards the brave. It is relentless but beautiful, harrowing but tender. Smh
5.0
The film is spare and pure and serious.It is pitiless and close to greatness. Star Tribune
3.0
It is an inexpressibly painful subject and Hillcoat has brought it to the screen with great intelligence. Guardian
2.0
It is this, rather than a somewhat contrived ending, that makes the film not merely bearable, but affirmative and life enhancing. Guardian
4.5
Its a courageous road picture and an unnerving dystopian epic, but with great moments of horror, love, and adventure. Reel Talk Reviews
2.0
Declaring The Road leads to nowhere is an exaggeration, but it certainly doesnt take you anywhere you want to go. Reel Talk Reviews
1.0
But Im not sure why anyone would wish to see this for entertainment. Daily Mail
3.2
The Road, for all its vivid desolation, remains a curiously unmoving experience. Ew
5.0
Because of the extreme nature of its subject matter, Hillcoats The Road is likewise a shattering experience: You walk out of the theater sweaty and sh .. Slate
4.0
One of the most chillingly effective visions of the worlds end ever put on screen and a heart rending study of parenthood, to boot. Empire
4.0
On the page, this wagon train is positively terrifying, but on screen it would bring McCarthys post apocalyptic vision a little too close to the well .. Eye For Film
4.0
Susan Grangers review of The Road (Dimension Films) In John Hillcoats powerful adaptation of Cormac McCarthys grim Pulitzer Prize winning novel, a boy .. Susang Ranger
3.0
The Road is effective and interesting as a comparison for those who loved the book. Common Sense Media
4.0
Its gut wrenching, cold pessimism is only broken by the occasional discovery of some food, a bath, a can of warm soda.Yet, it is compellingly enervati .. Flim Threet
3.1
Where Terrence Malick, whose sensuality and spiritual zeal makes him a kindred spirit of McCarthys, might have made a transcendent cinematic statement .. Slant Magazine
3.5
With all hope gone, those left on the desolate, scorched world protect themselves and everyone else is the enemy or food.This is a bleak film and dire .. Reeling Reviews
2.8
With all hope gone, those left on the desolate, scorched world protect themselves and everyone else is the enemy or food.This is a bleak film and dire .. Reeling Reviews
4.5
But its terrible enough.Its so terrible that the crux of its story comes down to this: Do you dare to hope and to trust in this awful world Flickfilosopher
3.5
Despite how exciting it may look in a movie like 2012, or how amusing it may seem in a movie like Zombieland, the actual end of the world would just b .. Las Vegas Weekly
3.0
However, it also serves an entirely accidental purpose: it shows us how dull Touch would be without the intrinsic spirituality at its core. Total Film
3.8
The sky is a constant slate gray and it seems to be raining as often as it is merely cloudy.Color is desaturated; The Road might just as easily have b .. ReelViews
1.0
It has been my lot recently, for a number of weeks, to watch what I had hoped would be good or plus movies, only to end up panning them.It aint my fau .. The Atlantic
3.0
While Cormac McCarthys Pulitzer Prize winning novel The Road could hardly be deemed unfilmable the way it conveys its primary themes of survival moral .. Hollywood
2.2
For such rich source material, the filmmakers have left out the most important ingredient: ideas. Coles Mithey
2.5
Its a vision of a world largely without us that completely chills the soul. Los Angeles Times
4.4
The Road is a horror movie cannibalism has replaced civilization but its an uncommonly smart and deep one. The Star
3.8
And obviously, its not really a pleasant cinematic experience, despite the quality of its filmmaking and performances. Deseret News
4.5
This is a film of many layers and one that champions goodness and a warm heart. Urban Cine File
2.0
Its a noble aim, and for the first few reels Hillcoat pulls it off with monochromatic style, but what at first is vivid and visually arresting gradual .. The Age
2.5
Its not a cautionary tale.Its not warning us of impending nuclear war or ecological disaster. Maki At The Movies
3.5
Its Mortensens struggle to create and maintain a credible bond, but it seems as laborious as the survival struggle of the plot due to Smit McPhees act .. Varia Gate
4.0
The Road, based on Cormac McCarthys stunning novel, is a tough slog, but its also powerful, pure and, ultimately, hopeful. Digital Spy
2.5
An absurd and dishonest happy ending cant be the reason for this movies gruesome rigors. New York Post
3.0
Hillcoats noble effort ultimately falls under the category of things much better imagined than seen. Instead of The End of All That Is, this is, well, .. The Stranger
3.8
Animal and plant life cease to exist.Food is a rare, precious commodity to come by. Dustin Put Man
4.3
It knows no humor except that which it doesnt perceive, the grim joke it sometimes makes of itself with its relentless slog toward nothing but the bar .. Ar Kansas Online
4.4
A stark consideration of the limits of morality, The Road is tough, often excruciating stuff. Larsen On Film
5.0
Coming as it does in the waning months of this tumultuous decade, this cinematic adaptation is everything it needs to be and more. Christianity Today
4.5
Like being ordered to have long hair and smile on stage, but wondering how to smile with a trombone in your mouth.Or repeatedly told youre not good en .. News Blaze
4.0
The Road is serious drama, a film that takes a bleak, harrowing story and makes it tender and compelling.Its too important a film to miss. Hollywood And Fine
4.0
Otherwise, Joe Penhalls screenplay remains a little too faithful to its source; like the Harry Potter movies, its more of an illustrated version of th .. The Arts Desk
3.0
This is a powerful movie that at the end packs an emotional punch to leave you reeling. The Sun
2.5
Its a searing, sporadically beautiful film, but something to tap your toes to Brian Or Ndorf
5.0
Without watering down Cormac McCarthys hangman prose, John Hillcoats adaptation transcended sad, gray apocalypse tropes to become an unexpectedly upli .. The Filmy Ap
3.8
Oppressively, but appropriately, bleak adaptation of Cormac McCarthys end of the world novel about a father and son wandering a post apocalyptic lands .. Big Picture Big Sound
2.0
At the heart of every brilliant road movie are finely drawn characters. Io9 Gizmodo
2.6
Its ultimately an underwhelming experience that lacks emotional resonance. Nyc Movie Guru
3.8
It is cold and getting colder, there is no food and all the animals are gone. Js Online
4.3
Making such homages is no longer originalor entertaining for that matternot when the movie lacks the storytelling and filmmaking skills required to pu .. ComingSoon
4.0
One can easily imagine what a different sensibility might have brought to the adaptation. Film Comment
4.0
This is a superlative piece of film making. Terse, raw and unadorned, there are no cheap tricks to devalue a story of unconditional love. Sky
4.0
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5.0
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4.0
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2.5
You will be able to save yourself from getting disappointed of watching nothing but a lame movie. Window To The Movies
3.8
Thats the best you could ask, I guess, of a film based on McCarthys gorgeous, ghastly masterpiece. Chron
5.0
Steel yourself.Depressing and distressing though it is, John Hillcoats adaptation of McCarthys prose results in one of the most terrifyingly beautiful .. The Shiz Nit
4.0
Yet itas also an unforgettable love story, an absorbing road movie, a searing examination of people pushed to the very limits and an ultimately uplift .. Metro
4.4
A nerve wracking and emotional experience...as true to the book as it could have been without having narration the whole way through. Scene Stealers
3.5
Instead, the film focuses on conveying the overwhelming dread of a horrible situation. Streaming Quickflix
2.0
You hang on to yourself for dear life, resisting belief as best you can in the face of powerful acting, persuasive filmmaking and the perversely compe .. Wsj
2.0
Instead of popcorn and soda, the concession stands ought to serve broken twigs and muddy water with this one. East Bay Express
1.5
When a movie is bleak and depressing, it had better be damned good. The Road is damned bad. Tony Mack
3.8
A story not just of indestructible parental commitment but the extremes to which that devotion will drive one, its a cinematic adaptation at once fait .. Nicks Chager
4.0
And there still museums with pay what you wish admission, if not every day, then on certain days weekly or monthly.You just have to know who offers wh .. New York Time Out
2.8
Too bad Mortensens performance, though decent, failed to deliver on the same emotional scale. Reel Talk Online
3.5
It may not be pretty, but its a view of the apocalypse that fascinates me all the same.The point of the story ends up being about ones values and mora .. Can Mag
5.0
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4.0
Visually The Road is a relentless palate of greys and browns making the eye initially struggle to adjust to its lack of colour and light. Cinema Autopsy
4.5
Movies like 2012 wreck the world in front of our eyes through long pageants of explosions. The Road, however, deals with cataclysmic ruin in a far dif .. Kc Active
4.4
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5.0
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3.0
But for all its wrenching emotions, evocative imagery and inevitable tearjerker ending, I was decidedly unmoved. Daily Record
4.4
Carved almost verbatim from Cormac McCarthys compelling novel, The Road is a depressing, gut wrenching journey that is strangely uplifting at its core .. The Movie Kit
4.5
It just is.Its not always the easy thing and sometimes its like, Ive got a lot of reasons to be annoyed here, but still its better not to be if you ca .. Movies About
4.5
Surely there is no other genre (well, perhaps camp) that is as satisfyingly junky and fun than the disaster genre Knight At The Movies
3.1
Already, Hillcoats film has divided critics on the international festival circuit. The one constant is the praise, rightly so, for Mortensen. Maki At The Movies Blogspo ..
4.5
Inarguably, Cormac McCarthys best novel has received a screen adaptation worthy of its prose. Culture Catch
1.5
Country: United States Afghanistan Algeria Andorra Angola Antigua and Barbuda Argentina Armenia Aruba Australia Austria Azerbaijan Bahamas Bahrain Ban .. Miss Flick Chick
3.5
So no, its not the feel good movie of the holidays, but theres enough bleak beauty in this fable that McCarthy won the Pulitzer and the cash green bad .. Amy Weekly
4.0
Watching it is like dying for two hours.It is pegged as a journey for survival, yet as the story offers no possibility of this, life becomes merely a .. Clothes Onfilm
4.5
If you can appreciate the dour tone, The Road is a powerful experience and wonderful adaptation. Ign
4.0
Instead, it stands as a gritty and atmospheric character study that features stunning cinematography and terrific (but essential) heartfelt performanc .. Perth Now



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