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Somber, stately, and beautifully mounted, Sam Mendes' Road to Perdition is a well-crafted mob movie that explores the ties between fathers and sons.
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So is Perdition still a must-see? No question. But it's tough to fuss about it much when a picture is this fussy. Apr 14, 2013 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
So is Perdition still a must-see? No question. But it's tough to fuss about it much when a picture is this fussy.
Mike Clark
Visually, the picture is all of a piece, but it's a self-conscious piece of work -- all dark-toned academic classicism. Apr 14, 2013
Visually, the picture is all of a piece, but it's a self-conscious piece of work -- all dark-toned academic classicism.
David Denby
What makes the movie pay off is moving pictures of real action and of intimate scenes between man and boy that are all the more moving for being understated. Apr 14, 2013 | Full Review…
What makes the movie pay off is moving pictures of real action and of intimate scenes between man and boy that are all the more moving for being understated.
Joe Morgenstern
While crisply edited and unindulgent, Mendes' work is gratifyingly old-school in its rejection of modern-day stylistic agitation, the better to achieve a slow but inexorable build to its climax. Aug 8, 2008
While crisply edited and unindulgent, Mendes' work is gratifyingly old-school in its rejection of modern-day stylistic agitation, the better to achieve a slow but inexorable build to its climax.
Todd McCarthy
Sam Mendes's 2002 follow-up to American Beauty finds him every bit as adept, arty, and Oscar hungry. Apr 17, 2007 | Full Review…
Sam Mendes's 2002 follow-up to American Beauty finds him every bit as adept, arty, and Oscar hungry.
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Ploughing a furrowed brow, Hanks is fatally miscast -- except that the story turns so sentimental and bathetic, he's actually in his element. Feb 9, 2006 | Full Review…
Ploughing a furrowed brow, Hanks is fatally miscast -- except that the story turns so sentimental and bathetic, he's actually in his element.
Geoff Andrew
A beautiful elegy to a decaying world whose sadness lingers on. Jan 3, 2019 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
A beautiful elegy to a decaying world whose sadness lingers on.
Namrata Joshi
Gangsters. Parents. Children. Honor. 'Road to Perdition' is all this and more, perhaps too perfect or too calculated, but with great cinema in it. [Full review in Spanish] Feb 28, 2017 | Full Review…
Gangsters. Parents. Children. Honor. 'Road to Perdition' is all this and more, perhaps too perfect or too calculated, but with great cinema in it. [Full review in Spanish]
Alberto Abuín
Very little of Road to Perdition lingers, except for a feeling that you've been carried along. Jul 21, 2015 | Full Review…
Very little of Road to Perdition lingers, except for a feeling that you've been carried along.
Stuart Klawans
Crisply, starchily self-conscious in its efforts to be a gangster epic. A pretty-enough remote place, with its rain and snow and fedoras and trenchcoats, but it's still a long way from Boardwalk Empire and Miller's Crossing. Feb 7, 2014 | Full Review…
Crisply, starchily self-conscious in its efforts to be a gangster epic. A pretty-enough remote place, with its rain and snow and fedoras and trenchcoats, but it's still a long way from Boardwalk Empire and Miller's Crossing.
Brian Gibson
Powerful, beautiful film; ok for mature teens. Dec 29, 2010 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
Powerful, beautiful film; ok for mature teens.
Nell Minow
The top-billed actors deliver: Hanks with his resonant reserve and Newman in conveying Rooney's failed attempt to live up to his self-image as the ultimate just and loving patriarch. [Blu-ray] Aug 2, 2010 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
The top-billed actors deliver: Hanks with his resonant reserve and Newman in conveying Rooney's failed attempt to live up to his self-image as the ultimate just and loving patriarch. [Blu-ray]
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