Review of Revolutionary Road (2008) by Noname   — 22 Dec 2014

A stupefyingly dreary film with leaden acting and unrelieved depression. The only thing to recommend it is the score by Thomas Newman, especially the powerful but minimalist theme. You might say Kate Winslet is effective, and there's some truth to that, but her character takes such a horrifying (and forced) path to destruction that it's hard to judge her acting with such a manipulative screenplay involved.

DiCaprio is quite awful in the role of an exceedingly awful character, which is to say his performance is a drag.