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(1 - 23) of 23 OFCS Rating: 57% Rotten Page   1   "It's never clear why the movie needed to be made, unless Hillcoat wanted to show that he could compete with Bela Tarr's 7 ½ hour Satantango by having just as many endless shots of downtrodden people walking down a dirt road."   Examiner.com   Adam Lippe "pure, stripped-down bleakness, both in the desaturated drabness of its appearance and in the last-days essentialism of its themes."   Eye for Film   Anton Bitel 2/4 "The images are searing, but there's little for Hillcoat to bat around besides endless agony. The Road is glacial and precise, but rarely offers the viewer something to chew on besides utter finality."   Sci-Fi Movie Page   Brian Orndorf 4/5 "delicate and indefinable, with only a thin reed of a story."   Filmcritic.com   Chris Barsanti C- ""The Road" is like the proverbial tree that falls in the forest when no human or animal is around. Whether or not it makes a sound is a moot point."   ColeSmithey.com   Cole Smithey 3/4 "...one couldn't have asked for a more faithful translation from page to screen..."   Reel Film Reviews   David Nusair 3/4 "The picture glimpses what it might really be like if the earth went to hell. As shattering as the sights are, turning away is out of the question."   DustinPutman.com   Dustin Putman 2.5/4 "Hillcoat has a way of undermining the earthy performances of his cast with overly refined images and obtrusive music."   Slant Magazine   Ed Gonzalez A "John Hillcoat's faithful, near-perfect adaptation beautifully captures McCarthy's synthesis of all-encompassing darkness and enduring hope."   Cinematical   Eugene Novikov D "A grim, tedious slog that goes nowhere emotionally [and] never manages to be either viscerally affecting or intellectually insightful."   One Guy's Opinion   Frank Swietek 1/5 "A post-apocalyptic tale that is nothing more than an ad for patriarchy and dualistic thinking."   Spirituality and Practice   Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat 3/4 "The movie The Road is nowhere close to its literary sire, but it's probably the best one could hope for from a movie version."   ReelViews   James Berardinelli "Parental Content Review"   Screen It!   Jim Judy 3/4 "Oppressively, but appropriately, bleak adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's end-of-the-world novel about a father and son wandering a post-apocalyptic landscape. Points for strong performances from the two leads and the film's unyielding view of the end of day"   Big Picture Big Sound   Joe Lozito "The ending rings false; and the overbearingly sentimental music can't compensate for the lack of even harsh lyricism."   ReelTalk Movie Reviews   John P. McCarthy C+ "an interior novel that has been rendered on the screen with post apocalyptic drear and actors trying their damndest, but Hillcoat's episodic tale only strikes a real emotional chord once."   Reeling Reviews   Laura Clifford 2.5/4 "So intent on finding the shortest route to the essence of the book that it never discovers its own soul."   Mark Reviews Movies   Mark Dujsik "[T]ruly great in the classical sense of the word, as grand as our most terrible fears and as wild as our most outlandish hopes and as intimate as being alive can be."   Flick Filosopher   MaryAnn Johanson B+ "Wrenching, elegiac, but ultimately inspiring, this is a film that knows how to hold onto its own fire."   Beliefnet   Nell Minow B+ "A cinematic adaptation at once faithful and superior to its source material."   Lessons of Darkness   Nick Schager A "For all of its bleak content, the final equation proves surprisingly optimistic."   Mania.com   Rob Vaux B "There is a small twinkle of hope in the end but getting there is tough, relentless going."   Reeling Reviews   Robin Clifford 1.5/4 "And unlike the better-than-the-book No Country for Old Men, it's only as good as the book. I guess I'm saying there's enough blame to go around."   Film Freak Central   Walter Chaw  (1 - 23) of 23 OFCS Rating: 57% Rotten Page   1