[Originally published in Movietone News 48, February 1976] Detour is a masterpiece of wry perversity, a film virtually constructed on irony and paradox: an incredibly claustrophobic film about hitchhiking on the “open road”; the bleakest of films noirs, with the bulk of the action taking place during the day and away from the city. But … Continue reading Detour: Closing Down the Open Road