— Look at us. We’re just like everyone else. We’ve bought into the same, ridiculous delusion.

Director Sam Mendes makes ’50s suburbia a persuasively suffocating place — he did the same for ’90s suburbia in American Beauty, remember. — Bob Mondello

The best thing about Revolutionary Road, a cool-blooded and disquieting adaptation of Richard Yates‘ 1961 novel about a powerfully unhappy Connecticut couple, is that it doesn’t end with that rote vision of bourgeois anomie. It only begins there. — Owen Gleiberman

— Knowing what you’ve got, knowing what you need, knowing what you can do without. That’s inventory control.