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The Road

Age certification: 15

On release in cinemas: 8 January 2010

Crackerjack rating: 8.0/10

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Synopsis

This bleak post-apocalyptic thriller  rests on the relationship between a father and son played by Viggo Mortensen and Australian child star Kodi Smit-McPhee. It’s a tough watch, but worth the effort.

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Abandon hope all ye who enter here. The future isn’t bright, not in the slightest, in John Hillcoat’s Oscar-tipped, post-apocalyptic thriller, adapted by Joe Penhall from the novel by Cormac McCarthy, who also wrote No Country For Old Men. Hillcoat shoots everything through a grimy, colour-bleached lens and when misery is poured upon the characters’ heads, the consequences are chilling and often gruesome. To offset the relentless doom and gloom, the film clings onto any scraps of...

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