Overview
Genre :
Thriller, DramaRelease Date :
November 25, 2009 (Limited)MPAA Rating :
RDirector :
John HillcoatStarring :
Viggo Mortensen, Charlize Theron, Robert Duvall, Guy Pearce, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Michael K. Williams, Bob Jennings
REVIEWS RATE:
Critics 
Readers 
[Rate It]
“..When director John Hillcoat and writer Joe Penhall decided to turn Cormac McCarthy's grim fable The Road into a film, they were setting themselves up for failure..”
by Chris Barsanti [Filmcritic.com]
Review rate : B
“..well-made but almost unbearably grim..”
“..well-made but almost unbearably grim..”
by Gary Thompson [Philadelphia Daily News]
Review rate : B-
“..The Road seem like one more heavy burden that, frankly, no one needs..”
“..The Road seem like one more heavy burden that, frankly, no one needs..”
by Owen Gleiberman [Entertainment Weekly]
“..The Road isn't a masterpiece..”
by Steven Rea [Philadelphia Inquirer]
“..The Road is undoubtedly one of the fall's most anticipated offerings..”
by James Berardinelli [ReelViews]
“..pitiless and close to greatness..”
by Colin Covert [Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune]
“..monochromatically gray and oppressively grim..”
by Joe Williams [St. Louis Post-Dispatch]
“..dark, bleak and nightmarish but also stirring and beautiful and optimistic..”
by Rene Rodriguez [Miami Herald]
Review rate : B-
“..A sobering chaser to the apocalyptic swill of 2012..”
“..A sobering chaser to the apocalyptic swill of 2012..”
by Scott Tobias [Onion AV Club]
“.."The Road" doesn't dare, can't dare, and is the lesser thing..”
by Ty Burr [Boston Globe]
Review rate : B-
Reviewed by Scott Tobias [Onion AV Club]
Reviewed by Scott Tobias [Onion AV Club]
Reviewed by Kenneth Turan [LA Times]
Reviewed by A.O. Scott [NY Times]
