Backhanded Compliments: Derrick Bang's "The Road" Review

In the print edition of the Davis Enterprise, the subtitle of Derrick Bang's review of John Hillcoat's adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's "The Road" proclaimed that the movie "served no useful purpose."

That made me laugh! What did Oscar Wilde say?:

The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it immensely. All art is useless.