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Reviews Counted:193
Fresh:132
Rotten:61
Average Rating:6.6/10
Consensus: Brilliantly acted and emotionally powerful, Revolutionary Road is a handsome adaptation of Richard Yates' celebrated novel.
Theatrical Release:30-01-2009
Synopsis: Those who were waiting for the romantic reunion of TITANIC's Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet may be surprised by what they find in REVOLUTIONARY ROAD. The movie begins with a sweet scene where... [More]
Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet, Michael Shannon, Kathryn Hahn
Director: Sam Mendes
Bitter, nerve-wracking, ugly and relentless, Revolutionary Road is Big Drama done right, a mesmerizing look at desperate lives, wrong moves and spoiled dreams that hits hard right from the beginning and never lets up.
Viewers in the mood for rip-snorting marital combat should go ahead and partake, but they must prepare to leave the theatre in a state of profound depression.
Revolutionary Road, an essay on the emptiness of 1950s suburban life, leaves one with an empty feeling.
Revolutionary Road's existential dread of unspoken feelings bubbling to the surface perhaps better resembles Tennessee Williams, a towering explorer of authenticity and self-delusion.
The film is jolted into hopes and dreams and more importantly, escaping a blah life. But you can just sense there is something else. After all, this film isn't called 'Frank and April Move to Paris.'
After Winslet's amazing performances in The Reader and Revolutionary Road, it's quite possible -- and maybe even likely -- that she'll get two Oscar nominations this year.
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The result also has the authentic quality of real people clinging to the aphorisms and going through the motions demanded by the situation and the times, all of which is bathed in lush regret by cinematographer Roger Deakins.
Dreary and depressing tale that would not have survived without the powerful and emotional performances by Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio.
...a limp, facile condemnation of suburbia (though in the interest of full disclosure, I moved from Chicago to the suburbs six years ago and happen to enjoy the extra trees.)
Unlike the novel, which you can set aside and take a break, with the film version of Revolutionary Road, you're in for the duration, and it's ultimately too much to take.
Winslet gives a fearless performance here. It's not her fault her husband has shrouded it in Taste.
This film is so good it is devastating. A lot of people believe their parents didn't understand them. What if they didn't understand themselves?
Top CriticLike its cinematic kin, Frost/Nixon and Doubt, this, too, is a delicately crafted, prestige project whose translation to screen doesn't deliver the original's amazements.
Sam Mendes has worked in this territory before with his Oscar-winning American Beauty. Revolutionary Road is a better movie because it doesn't rely on such blatant caricatures.
The movie is intense and stylized, and bristling with great performances.
Revolutionary Road is easily the best-acted film of 2008, and one of the most corrosive.
[A] devastating if flawed adaptation of the Richard Yates novel.
The many millions who swooned over their romance in Titanic should expect to encounter a very different couple in Revolutionary Road. The bloom is very much off the rose.
Revolutionary Road gets my vote as the best American film of 2008.
June 01, 2009:
RT on DVD: Defiance, Revolutionary Road, and Snakes on a Submarine
This week on DVD catch up on a few big flicks you might have missed in theaters, including an Oscar-nominated suburban period piece by Sam Mendes (Revolutionary Road, starring... More...
May 28, 2009:
DiCaprio and Winslet reunite for first time since Titanic as Fifties couple in crisis. 
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January 25, 2009:
Sean Penn, Meryl Streep win at SAG awards
For the 15th year running, the Screen Actors Guild has gotten together to honor excellence among its members -- and we've reproduced the complete list of winners for the 2008... More...
January 24, 2009:
Iconoclast.com: At any moment, we expect the depressed, chain smoking gilded cage suburban house pet Kate to morph into Sylvia Plath, poised to stick her head in the oven, a premature free spirit imprisoned in a breezy hollow world.
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