Drama
Rod Lott
Once the Oscar contender to beat — until
The Artist swooped in and did just that —
The Descendants
is the oddest kind of road movie: one in which the roads don’t
exist at all. The travels undertaken by George Clooney’s harried,
married Matt King character in this dramedy are done so mostly via
plane, as he criss-crosses three of Hawaii’s eight islands in search of a
stranger he doesn’t want to face, but stalks with great determination
nonetheless.