Tom Chiarella of Esquire somehow managed to see The Road (originally scheduled to be released Nov. 2008, now coming out Nov. 2009) and not only liked it, but has dubbed it “the most important movie of the year.”
Be sure to read through to the last page, where he discusses how the trailers for the film try to suggest explanations for the apocalypse that occurs before the movie’s (and book’s) plot starts. Chiarella writes, “For someone who loves the book, for anyone who knows the story going in, this is a moment you hoped would never come. Why remind us of the reductive logic of cause and effect?” Rest assured, however, that the trailers are deceptive: the movie itself does not go there.
There. This may be the only time I ever link to Esquire.
Carissa Turner Smith is a compulsive reader, writer, and Irish dancer. She earned her Ph.D. in English at Penn State and currently teaches writing and American literature at Charleston Southern University. At age three, she announced that all she wanted to do was “sit at a desk and read and write,” and she has been trying to make good on that promise ever since. Fortunately, she is occasionally distracted from this mission by her husband Stephen and their cheese-obsessed cat. A loyal native of Arkansas, she has always loved the fact that Jesus dwelt in an underappreciated corner of Galilee (see John 1:46). 
