Columns
Monday, November 12 2012
The Tragedy of the Family Game in 'The Road to Perdition'
Sam Mendes’ virtuoso control behind the camera mesmerizes and hypnotizes, his depiction of Depression-era America a stasis of tragedy, each death inevitable but slow to ferment.
Reviews
Friday, August 6 2010
Road to Perdition
Sam Mendes’ Road to Perdition is a somber and elegiac period piece set in Depression-era Illinois, with a tragic narrative framed around father and son relationships.
Friday, July 12 2002
Road to Perdition (2002)
The perfectly grim surface evokes eons of pain, as well as a highly stylized contemporary sensibility, not so much cynical as skeptical and self-aware.
