The Road 2011

Jeannette Catsoulis, New York Times: A powerfully atmospheric blend of ghostly encounters, horrific situations and missing-persons mysteries from the Philippine director Yam Laranas. Read more

Sam Adams, AV Club: The Road spends most of its time going in circles, working and reworking a small set of potent images. Read more

Bill Goodykoontz, Arizona Republic: Although the story doesn't always quite hold, "The Road" is still a satisfyingly creepy film. Read more

Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times: The film's three-pronged narrative does a fair job of laying a spooky groundwork for the revelatory emotional sadism that lies behind most acts of evil; it just takes a bit of clunky exposition to get there. Read more

Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger: This philosophical film helps elevate the film above the usual scared-teenager shocker although, sometimes, the film ignores the bread-and-butter demands of the genre. Read more

V.A. Musetto, New York Post: [Laranas] delivers a maximum of suspense and horror, working wonders with a small budget. Read more

Andrew O'Hehir, Salon.com: If it's patchy and derivative it also has a compelling, soapy undertow that kept me watching. Read more

Rob Nelson, Variety: This low-budget shocker eventually pays off, displaying just enough narrative ingenuity to compensate for a cinematically crude and logistically sketchy deployment of the requisite blood-and-guts mayhem. Read more

Mark Holcomb, Village Voice: Call it a haircut of Psycho with ectoplasmic additives, The Road still has a whispering menace and visual grandeur all its own. Read more