THE ROAD Galas and Tributes

After an unspecified calamity, the world has been destroyed, leaving nothing but shells of cities-and the road. A father and son walk through an ash-gray landscape ducking the ever-present, terrifying threat posed by other survivors. This astonishing adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel strips away the pretension and artifice of science fiction-style apocalypse. The fidelity with which John Hillcoat brings the end of the world to the screen is a wonder to behold.