Revolutionary Road
DreamWorks Distribution | Release Date: December 26, 2008 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
69
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 38 Critic Reviews
Positive:
28
Mixed:
9
Negative:
1
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60
SlateDana Stevens
It's a textbook example of a well-crafted movie, beautifully shot, impeccably acted, and structured like an elegant three-act play. So why does the movie feel as pleasantly deadening as the midcentury Connecticut suburb where it takes place? Read full review
58
Portland OregonianShawn Levy
Mendes has extraordinary gifts, but he has leveled them at the Wheelers like a firing squad. Strangely, he evinced no particular moralizing agenda when making films about the mob or the military. But put ordinary people in his sights and he's venomous. It's unbecoming -- and it should be worked out in private, not in a movie theater. Read full review
50
The Hollywood ReporterKirk Honeycutt
In "Virginia Woolf," George and Martha are locked into a symbiotic, disturbingly needy relationship that absolutely feed off their acidic battles. But for Revolutionary Road's Frank and April Wheeler, you wonder: Why don't they just get a divorce? Read full review
50
SalonStephanie Zacharek
This is a movie about two people in pain; the last thing they need is for Mendes to turn his cool camera on them. But that's all Mendes knows how to do. He's a clinical director, and whatever feeling he puts into a movie is measured out in careful quarter-teaspoon increments. Read full review
50
Christian Science MonitorPeter Rainer
A sad experience, but the sadness has no emotional heft because its people have none. This movie hasn't earned its funk. Read full review
50
The New York TimesManohla Dargis
"Revolutionary Road" is the kind of great novel that Hollywood tends to botch, because much of it takes place inside the heads of its characters, and because the Wheelers aren't especially likeable and because pessimism without obvious redemption is a tough sell. Read full review
50
Miami HeraldRene Rodriguez
An impeccably shot, studiously staged, passionately acted bore, one of those curious fizzles in which everyone seems to do everything right, but the film simply refuses to take off. Read full review
50
Washington PostAnn Hornaday
The result is that Revolutionary Road is a hard movie to love. Plenty of people will appreciate the hopelessness, but they might wish for a little less emptiness. Read full review
40
Wall Street JournalJoe Morgenstern
The movie is stifling, all right, and depressing in the bargain. Read full review
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