Daily Plastic: Revolutionary Road

Movie	Our Take	Other Takes
Revolutionary Road Trailer . IMDB	If you want to remind yourself that suburbia is America’s hell and conformity its defining characteristic, then this is the movie for you. J. Robert Parks Daily Plastic	The blistering drama Revolutionary Road has two big ideas: Suburbia suffocates the soul and Titanic sleeps with the fishes.... There isn’t a banal moment in Winslet’s performance—not a gesture, not a word. Is Winslet now the best English-speaking film actress of her generation? I think so. David Edelstein New York Magazine I can’t escape the feeling that both creator and re-creator have trapped an American couple in a grim, overly mechanistic system of dead ends that reflects the artists’ own ambitions and temperaments rather than some stinging truth about American incapacity...It may suffer, as only an awards-season movie can, from the illusion that pain and art are the same thing. David Denby The New Yorker You know exactly what kind of film this is going to be in the first ten minutes, when you witness the sea of identical business fedoras filing onto the commuter train. Oh, the hopeless emptiness! Michael Shannon can only do so much to bring the film to life, applying cardiac paddles, as it were, to a tastefully appointed corpse. Michael Sicinski The Academic Hack

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