"The Road" *** (out of four): Oppressively, but appropriately, bleak adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's end-of-the-world novel about a father and son wandering a post-apocalyptic landscape. Points for strong performances from the two leads and the film's unyielding view of the end of days

I seem to be writing the term "post-apocalyptic" a lot lately. From the stitch-work creations that wander an animated wasteland in "9" to the tendon-chewing undead that terrorize the survivors in "Zombieland", the end-times genre is alive and well in theaters this year. The latest entry is an oppressively but appropriately bleak adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's "The Road", about a father and son struggling to survive in a devastated, yes, post-apocalyptic landscape.

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