Where it fails is in its documentary approach at portraying the mental aftermath of a tragedy and the dearth of plausible satisfaction for the conclusion.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Nov 27, 2020

Reservation Road, in its offhanded way, depicts the world of the reasonably affluent 21st-century American more accurately than any other recent film I can think of.

| Oct 18, 2018

| Original Score: B | Feb 18, 2012

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Nov 18, 2011

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 17, 2011

What did we do to deserve these grief-counselor filmmakers? They seem to think they can express something that we cannot, and they're so persistent. It's enough to make us want to run away from home.

| Apr 28, 2011

| Original Score: C | Oct 18, 2008

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Oct 18, 2008

Ultimately devolves into a Crime and Punishment-esque moral exercise, with heavy-handed social commentaries and a rough ending that left me with a bad taste in my mouth.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Aug 26, 2008

Reservation Road, where the event central to this story takes place, is a symbolic crossroads for two families in this engaging drama about a hit and run accident and its aftermath.

| Aug 3, 2008

Would-be screenwriters are advised to catch Reservation Road on cable as it provides an object lesson of three awful script clichés that are to be avoided at all costs.

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 1, 2008

Um drama barato e maniqueísta que apela para truques narrativos rasos a fim de arrancar lágrimas do espectador e, assim, comprovar o próprio valor.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 28, 2008

The filmmaker, whether in Rwanda or here at home, admirably weighs the difficult convictions and facile frailties of human nature, and those conflicting impulses towards cowardice and revenge or a far more arduous courage and honor, on a troubled planet.

| Jan 26, 2008

prospathei na piasei ligo ap' ola, alla kataligei na min ehei kanenan sygkekrimeno stoho katholoy, i toylahiston kanenan sygkekrimeno poy na mporei na moirastei olokliromena mazi soy

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Jan 26, 2008

George's thriller reveals itself to be nothing more than a by the numbers melodrama that's only saved by the excellent performances...

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 4, 2008

A disappointing drama featuring paper thin female characters is rescued only by a superb performance from Mark Ruffalo.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Dec 14, 2007

George sustains this lightweight soap opera with the predictable pap of a Lifetime channel movie...this particular Road is certainly under construction.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Dec 6, 2007

It's a gripping enough subject matter that isn't exactly given an engaging or focused enough screenplay to be as powerful as it so desperately strives for.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Dec 5, 2007

A good psychological and moral drama.

| Original Score: B | Nov 30, 2007

The pileup of coincidences makes this film inevitably seem like a car wreck... .

| Original Score: B- | Nov 28, 2007