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The Road (2009)
After a global cataclysm has caused an extinction event, an ailing father defends his son as they wander through the post-apocalyptic world, trying to keep the dream of civilization alive and avoid roving gangs of savage humans who will turn them into slaves, or worse.
12 July 1984, Sewickley, Pennsylvania, USA
1983, Lincoln, Nebraska, USA
29 July 1985, Low Moor, Virginia, USA
30 June 1972, Maple Ridge, British Columbia, Canada
November 29, 2009
In this haunting portrait of America as no country for old men or young, Hillcoat -- through the artistry of Mortensen and Smit-McPhee -- carries the fire of our shared humanity and lets it burn bright and true.
January 08, 2010
Hillcoat's movie is a resounding triumph. Stunning landscape photography sets the melancholy mood, and Nick Cave's wrenching score reinforces it. But it is the performances that ultimately hold the film together.
March 11, 2014
The Road is one of the year's strongest dramas. But it's no picnic, to say the least.
November 30, 2009
It hits a few tinny, sentimental notes. Still, I admire the craft and conviction of this film, and I was impressed enough by the look and the performances to recommend that you see it.
September 28, 2012
The Road is a highly emotional, involving, palm-sweatingly tense movie that will scar you for life if you let it. Exhausting to watch but oddly exhilirating to experience, it's a film you'll watch once but will never forget.
November 29, 2009
How could anything so bleak be so promising?
June 16, 2011
Unpleasant post-apocalyptic drama.
November 30, 2009
What's unnerving is that the end of the world was shot on location. Apparently, if you want to see doom, just go to New Orleans or Pittsburgh.
October 21, 2010
Hillcoat does his best, and for the most part, he succeeds. The horrifically desolate landscape and the drab greys and cobalt blues of the scarred sky pervade every shot.
September 24, 2014
A remarkable, haunting picture worth multiple viewings.
December 02, 2009
Hillcoat certainly provides the requisite seriousness, but what the movie lacks is an underlying sense of innocence, a sense that, however far humanity has sunk, there is at least some chance of rising again.
