5 January 2009, 7:12 am
If you’re looking for a feel-good movie, steer clear of “Revolutionary Road,” a new big-screen version of Richard Yates’ 1961 novel. Spitting truths as powerful as they are uncomfortable, the film is a primal scream against the straitjackets ...... Read More »
2 January 2009, 1:13 pm
Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet reunite for a cinematic portrait of marriage gone sour: "Revolutionary Road." Movie review by Moira Macdonald. "Revolutionary Road," with Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet, Michael Shannon, Kathryn Hahn, David Harbour ...... Read More »
2 January 2009, 7:51 am
Bleak, stilted, artificial – the marital drama “Revolutionary Road” is all those things and yet it’s also brutally effective at drawing you into the story and making you sick about what unfolds. It’s based on Richard Yates’s 1961 novel, a ...... Read More »
2 January 2009, 12:56 am
Frank (Leonardo DiCaprio) and April Wheeler (Kate Winslet) are a New York couple who lose their dreams in the suburbs, then scheme to move to Paris and reconnect to them in "Revolutionary Road." (Paramount Vantage ) "Revolutionary Road" is the kind ...... Read More »
1 January 2009, 11:59 pm
Sam Mendes , the director of "Revolutionary Road," injects a few milligrams of hope into his film version of the 1961 Richard Yates novel, an excoriating portrait of a mid-1950s marriage built on sticks, straw and delusion. It is a harsh, merciless ...... Read More »
1 January 2009, 9:36 pm
Pairing famous actors together multiple times can be a mixed bag. On the one hand, any subsequent film has that instant air of familiarity, with many filmgoers sure to be drawn to it just for the chance to see those two people work together again ...... Read More »
1 January 2009, 2:05 pm
It has been more than 10 years since "Titanic" made Leonardo DiCaprio a superstar, and this week he caps off a golden decade of performances that this status has afforded him ("Gangs of New York," "The Aviator," "The Departed," "Blood Diamond") with ...... Read More »
1 January 2009, 2:05 pm
It also has attracted a long line of filmmakers eager to turn it into a movie (most famously John Frankenheimer), all of whom ultimately abandoned the idea, deciding its charm lay in Yates' prose, and its subject -- the unraveling of a young marriage ...... Read More »
1 January 2009, 12:46 pm
At the tail end of a season where the most consistent emotion that filmmakers have offered was disappointment tinged with despair, comes the bleakest, most beautiful downer of them all. "Revolutionary Road" is easily the best-acted film of 2008, and ...... Read More »
31 December 2008, 12:04 pm
THERE'S BEEN SOME concern that the girls who swooned over Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet's "Titanic" romance will be sorely ... well, sore when they get a gander at the pair's reunion vehicle, "Revolutionary Road." It's an emotionally searing ...... Read More »
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