It doesn’t always balance its dark comedy and intense melancholy, and it ends in a way that’s a bit too neat for such a story. But when it gets that balance just right, it packs one hell of a gut punch.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 14, 2024

It's hard to describe just how incredibly moving this tragicomedy is, led triumphantly by a marvellous performance from Cummings.

| Oct 17, 2023

Thunder Road is a painfully funny comedy with a break-out performance from writer and director Jim Cummings. Strikingly original and might be the best comedic independent film in years.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 17, 2022

There’s a magnetic performance at the center of Thunder Road that begins like Jim Carrey and ends like John Cassavetes.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | May 18, 2022

Episode 28: Piercing / Monsters and Men / Thunder Road / Destroyer

| Original Score: 76/100 | Sep 9, 2021

Cummings brings his central character to life in a series of unforced, gentle scenes that make Thunder Road something of a triumph of minimalist indie cinema...

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 24, 2021

I loved this film. I want to watch it again.

| Original Score: 4.0/4.0 | Sep 26, 2020

Is it pure screwball or more sweet indie fare? Either way, there's no denying Thunder Road projects charm and generates some smiles along the way.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 10, 2020

Thunder Road approaches serious, profound and even dangerous themes with comic elegance. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Nov 6, 2019

While there is an expression of what happens in Bruce Springsteen's songs, on Thunder Road we don't find what it feels like to have lived them. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Oct 30, 2019

A sharp and original comedy. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Oct 25, 2019

The actor-director-writer [Jim Cummings] manages to make a host emotions radiate from him, making us participants of his pain and tragedy. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 25, 2019

Jim Cummings, who wrote, directed and acted in the film deserves a pat on his back as he manages to channel out a very assured, matured and understated character sketch of a broken man on the verge of mental breakdown.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Sep 26, 2019

Thunder Road is a raw nerve of a film; empathetic and tender towards people who shouldn't be likeable.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 21, 2019

Witnessing [Jim's] struggle is difficult but rewarding.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 25, 2019

Small-town police officer Jim Arnaud powers through a firestorm of flayed emotions while paying tribute to his late mother. Overwhelmed by grief, he is awkward, scatty, tragic and ridiculous.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Jun 23, 2019

In the spirit of many great comedians, Jim Cummings has a knack for taking lines that shouldn't be funny and transforming them into accidental zingers.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 10, 2019

melancholy, funny, excruciating and wonderfully affecting

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 7, 2019

Wonderfully offbeat, this is a thrillingly unique exploration of grief and a raw portrayal of despair and the strange forms it can take. A tour-de-force which needs to be seen.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 5, 2019

Its laboured mix of dark humour and real sadness is likely to prove an uncomfortable watch.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 3, 2019