"Apocalyptic movies come into three categories: "This isn't really going to happen", "What if this really happened?" and "This is really going to happen". Roland Emmerich's 2012 comes into the first group, Alfonso Cuarón's Children of Men into the second, and Michael Haneke's Time of the Wolf the third. The Road straddles the last two categories, although even Haneke had nothing to compare with the chilling horror of that gun-dilemma in The Road. On the screen, just as on the page, it grips and horrifies because it is so stunningly real. If the end came, and we had to struggle on into a nightmarish world, fearing the living and envying the dead, then suicide would be the only thing on anyone's mind, an option assessed and deferred hour by hour, moment by moment." - Graham Sergeant