The Road

Viggo Mortensen and newcomer Kodi Smit-McPhee shine as a man and his son travelling across the wasteland and struggling to survive in a post apocalyptic world. Based on a Pulitzer Prize winning novel by Cormac McCarthy (author of No Country for Old Men), this is a thoroughly depressing movie, offering a slight glimmer of hope in an otherwise grey and inhumane world where the default option is to trust no one. Robert Duvall is brilliant in a brief, but welcome, cameo appearance as an old man they encounter along their travels.

7 / 10