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thehousenextdooronline.com - 12/16/2008

Wild is the Wind: Revolutionary Road

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By Dan Callahan [ Revolutionary Road opens December 26th in limited release; wide release in January. ] Richard Yates’ debut novel Revolutionary Road is a suitably bleak vision of fifties suburbia and Madison Avenue soullessness, but it’s much more than that; as Yates remorselessly tightens ...

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nymag.com - 12/16/2008

The Holiday-Movie Blowout - Our Critic Considers Nine Oscar Hopefuls -- New York Magazine

— nymag.com — he blistering drama Revolutionary Road has two big ideas: Suburbia suffocates the soul and Titanic sleeps with... the fishes. The first idea was still subversive when Richard Yates published his novel in 1961 but is now old hat. The second, which ... (more) The Holiday-Movie Blowout - Our Critic Considers Nine ...

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hammertonail.com - 12/22/2008

BURN HOLLYWOOD BURN: REVOLUTIONARY ROAD - A Post-Viewing Open Letter to Sam Mendes

— hammertonail.com — (NOTE: Revolutionary Road is Michael Tully’s Favorite Book Ever. The opinions expressed herein are fiercely personal and... do not reflect the attitudes of Hammer to Nail at large.) Dear Mr. Mendes, Where, oh where, should I begin? How about ... (more) BURN HOLLYWOOD BURN: REVOLUTIONARY ROAD - A Post-Viewing ...

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filmofilia.com - 12/15/2008

DiCaprio’s Revolutionary Road Photos

— filmofilia.com — Adapted from Richard Yates ‘ (1926-1992) first novel, “ Revolutionary Road ” is an incisive portrait of... an American marriage seen through the eyes of Frank (three-time Academy Award nominee Leonardo DiCaprio ) and April (five-time Academy Award nominee Kate Winslet ) Wheeler. Yates’ story ... (more) DiCaprio’s Revolutionary Road Photos

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First wave of raves for Revolutionary Road
Awards Daily — ... DiCaprio launches himself into terrific Nicholsonian rages with Winslet; they both seem secure as performers and it’s tempting to think of this as the Titanic generation’s graduation. The movie is occasionally prestigey (it’s time to put composer Thomas Newton out to pasture), but no film featuring Bug’s ferocious Michael Shannon, as a neighbor’s mentally disturbed son who has weird insights, could be confused for mere Oscar fare. Dan Callahan, The House Next Door The casting is ideal all down the line: how ...

On the Un-Sirkness of Revolutionary Road
Self-Styled Siren — ... Men-style "how cool, that is SO period" flourishes. And that's good; you shouldn't be sitting there wondering where can you get a dress just like Kate's. This is a chamber piece, dependent on the filmmaker's ability to draw you into a couple's claustrophobic marriage. Sirk managed that even as he used an extremely strong style, but it is hardly fair to a filmmaker to say he isn't Sirk. The Siren misses the presence of an extraordinary directorial vision, as did Dan Callahan in his perceptive review, but Revolutionary Road is still a good, if not great, movie. ...

Revolutionary Road Review
SpoutBlog — ... than shrugs of measured praise. Certainly the best work Mendes has ever produced for the screen, Revolutionary Road works (on the level that it does work) as a showcase for performances: big stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet are probably at the top of their game, a star-making performance is registered in less than a handful of scenes from Michael Shannon, and, in the ultimate nagging old lady role, Kathy Bates reminds us why she is the greatest living nagging old lady in all of cinema. That all of this talent is put to the service of an adaptation which ...