November 20, 2009
Nick Schager, Lessons of Darkness
Charlize Theron, Garret Dillahunt, Guy Pearce
From Cormac McCarthy, author of NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN, comes the highly anticipated big screen adaptation of the beloved, best-selling and Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, THE ROAD. Academy Award-nomin...( read more
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November 16, 2009
David Edelstein, New York Magazine
Evocative as it is, The Road comes up short, not because it's bleak but because it's monotonous, and because McCarthy's vision is finally as inflexible as his patriarchal hero's. full review
October 15, 2009
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
The Road is a film that, to quote Mark Twain, knows the words but not the music. It evokes the images and the characters of Cormac McCarthy's novel, but lacks a core of emotional feeling. full review
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