DiCaprio and Winslet have rarely been better.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Mar 3, 2024

A must-see for adults who don’t mind getting their hands dirty on messy emotions.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Feb 18, 2023

The elegant savagery of the author Richard Yates’s dialogue, which reads with a gratifyingly poetic violence, doesn’t sit quite as easily in the mouths of actors. Still the performances are forceful...

| Jul 25, 2022

This is the type of film some people might find a little bit boring, but others will absolutely love for the performances, the writing, and the deep dive into human psychology and the depths of people's desires.

| Original Score: 6.5/10 | Sep 4, 2021

In making a better man out of Frank Wheeler, Mendes and Haythe have, unfortunately, thrown out one of the real achievement's of Yates's novel: his ruthless critique of 1950s masculinity.

| Dec 18, 2020

Even the climax of the film is laughable, along with nearly every complementary sequence in which they bicker and yell continuously.

| Original Score: 2/10 | Nov 28, 2020

A decent film that falls devastatingly short of anything resembling greatness.

| Original Score: 2.5/4.0 | Sep 21, 2020

Maybe I would have been more willing to mull over that commentary if any piece of me had actually liked Frank and April Wheeler...

| Apr 10, 2020

Based on the 1961 novel by Richard Yates, there is a been-there, done-that feeling about the film.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Oct 2, 2019

A powerful, wrenching piece of work and an acting showcase for a tremendous ensemble cast.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jun 6, 2019

This is a handsome, intelligent and careful adaptation which may be too bookish... Always fully engrossing, even if it is too coolly detached to ever be involving.

| Aug 29, 2018

Revolutionary Road shows something people think they want to see but really don't: what happens if Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet survive the Titanic.

| Apr 30, 2018

It just touched on so many different issues like love, the sanctity of marriage, forgiveness, rage, entrapment, loneliness and helplessness.

| Original Score: A+ | Sep 12, 2017

Mr. Mendes at least has an idea what he should be going for even though he ultimately fails.

| Oct 7, 2015

There is not a shred of hope, light or even life in Mendes' fourth film.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Oct 21, 2014

Revolutionary Road's portrait of a disintegrating marriage is so unflinching, so unsentimental, and so bleak, that you really need to be in a buoyant emotional state to get through the movie.

| Sep 7, 2013

Most of the way, the film feels more like a documentary about the couple than a corrosive study of either of them.

| Original Score: B+ | Jun 22, 2013

These people are not tragic, they're not even pathetic - they're fountains of soap-opera profundities.

| Aug 16, 2011

From the director of American Beauty comes another empty, fake-meaningful tale of how rotten it is in the suburbs.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 4, 2011

... far beyond deconstructing the man in the gray flannel suit. ... [writer Richard Yates] explored ways we acquire and define our identities from people we love, and how we set our lives on self-deceptive and self-destructive courses.

| Jan 26, 2011