#133. Revolutionary Road
Monday, August 22, 2011 at 4:32PM
Brandon Roberts

A cinematic kick in the balls, this film completely left me broken and bruised for weeks. Sam Mendes once again succeeds at defining the dysfunction in American suburbia, creating an even more heart wrenching drama than his American Beauty. Leonardo Di Caprio is pretty good, and Kate Winslet does a lot of the heavy lifting, but Michael Shannon totally steals every scene he is in. Emotionally devastating with an intensity rarely seen in mainstream cinema, Revolutionary Road is good film that I will never watch again.

 

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