The Road

One of the many shocks in "The Road," the screen adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's post-apocalyptic novel, comes when actor Viggo Mortensen pulls off his tattered, grimy clothing to luxuriate in a waterfall. The hunky star who played Aragorn...

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...they expect, but they’ll be better off for seeing it. Posted on Wed, Nov. 25, 2009 10:15 PM Misleading trailer for 'The Road' actually might be a good thing Despite its action-packed trailer, "The Road," starring Viggo Mortensen...

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Tom Long Film Review: 'The Road' -- GRADE: B Review: 'The Road' is grim but graceful Tom Long / Detroit News Film Critic The big question with "The Road" is, who will want to travel it? It is not, you see, a very easy trip. It is a...

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...deeply spiritual -- film will communicate on many levels. While there are echoes of the Christian story in The Road, the power of the film is not in the answers given, but the questions asked. The greatest impact of The Road will not be on...

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...monochrome) is grueling, harrowing, spiritually draining-but the same could be said about watching pigs get slaughtered for two hours. The Road is an undifferentiated parade of horrors; you watch from between clenched hands, but each new...

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Review: 'The Road' is brutal, but is it worth taking? Viggo Mortensen stars in the post-apocalyptic "The Road." The Road is 2009's entry in the Movies You Admire and Respect but Don't Ever Want to Watch Again Sweepstakes. You know going...

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...to an interviewer's self-esteem. But I soldiered on. Mortensen stopped by our offices the other day to promote his new movie, "The Road," which is based on Cormac McCarthy's Pulitzer Prize-winning 2006 novel. The book is very dark, and the...

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...grim backdrop of post-apocalyptic misery. It's called "District 9," and it will be available on DVD in a few weeks. As for "The Road," the highly anticipated and much-delayed adaptation of the Cormac McCarthy novel, it, too, aspires to...

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...enough. (Even at that, it has taken a year for the Weinsteins, the producers and distributors of "The Road,'' to get the nerve to release the film.) As the Man and the Boy drag their shopping cart across what's left of America, the enormity of...

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...of it more serious-minded, and there are certainly classics in the genre that are hard to beat. For "The Road" to stand apart from what's come before, it needed to find a particular angle on the material that we haven't seen before, or...

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