Revolutionary Road can be seen as Mendes' companion piece to American Beauty (8 rating). This film is darker and more stark, and with far less humor. It's well written and surprisingly well acted though. DiCaprio may not be the best actor around, but ever since Gangs of New York (7 rating), he's chosen very good roles and been fine in them. Winslet has made a career out of playing flaky women, which is probably not too big a stretch for her. Give her credit though, she's good here as she is more often than not.
This is a notch below Beauty, but still a good film. A 7 rating.
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