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- Marco Albanese @ Stanze di Cinema [Italian]
- Excerpt: Rispetto al più squilibrato Frank, il nuovo film di Abrahamson ha una compattezza narrativa che si giova probabilmente del romanzo delle Donoghue e che consente una messa in scena senza sbavature di grande maturità espressiva. Room è una delle sorprese della stagione. Non perdetelo.
- [New – 2/25/16] | Rick Aragon @ Rick’s Cafe Texan
- Excerpt: Room is very moving, beautiful, emotional film. It was handled exceptionally well, with some simply pitch-perfect performances.
- Jason Bailey @ Flavorwire
- Excerpt: I went into it cold, and would frankly recommend you do the same (this advice holds for nearly any movie, but that’s neither here nor there). Yet what happens at this halfway point is divulged clearly in the ads and trailers — and is worth talking about because so much of what makes ‘Room’ great, of why it’s innovative and admirable, is a result of that break.
- Chris Barsanti @ PopMatters
- Excerpt: In this shattering adaptation of Emma Donoghue’s novel, a woman held prisoner by her kidnapper for seven years must finally tell her son that there is in fact a world outside the walls of their makeshift cell.
- Nicholas Bell @ Ioncinema
- Luke Bonanno @ DVDizzy.com
- Excerpt: Though it loosens the grip of that riveting first half, it remains thoughtful and interesting.
- Tim Brayton @ Antagony & Ecstasy
- Bill Clark @ From The Balcony
- Excerpt: Watching Room is essentially the act of barely breathing and nearly crying for two hours.
- Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: On the page, we can fill in the gaps with our own imagination, but “Room” is content to offer us Jack’s while Ma’s endured horrors remain confined in words.
- David Crow @ Den of Geek
- Excerpt: Ultimately, Room is an experience that juxtaposes light and dark, and youthful heaven with grown-up despairs in almost every frame. It is a remarkable achievement of cinema.
- Mark Dujsik @ Mark Reviews Movies
- Candice Frederick @ Reel Talk Online
- Hugo Gomes @ Cinematograficamente Falando … [Portuguese]
- Susan Granger @ www.susangranger.com
- Excerpt: Resilient & cathartic, combining a wondrous metaphor with a suspenseful thriller…
- Mark Hobin @ Fast Film Reviews
- Excerpt: Writer Emma Donoghue has found a unique way to detail the tender bond between a mother and her son. Room‘s exploration of love is so heartbreakingly original, it’s cathartic.
- MaryAnn Johanson @ FlickFilosopher.com
- Excerpt: I wish I could have stopped the film — numerous times — simply to give myself a chance to step back from an emotional precipice of horror and tension.
- Charlie Juhl @ Citizen Charlie
- Excerpt: Room terrified me more than any horror film. An obstacle course movie-goers are going to proudly tell their friends they experienced.
- Steve Katz @ The Alpha Primitive
- Excerpt: The most vital aspects of the film, the lives of Joy and Jack, are when it is at its best. It is an uncompromising look at trauma, abuse and neglect and the tenacity and determination required to overcome life’s trials while remaining a steadfast and dependable parent and guardian.
- Jeremy Kibler @ The Artful Critic
- Excerpt: How much “Room” will affect the viewer is also in no small part to its vivid performances.
- Oktay Kozak @ Oregon Herald
- Benjamin Kramer @ The Voracious Filmgoer
- Daniel Lackey @ The Nightmare Gallery
- Excerpt: A sad and challenging but ultimately hopeful story about broken people struggling to help each other fix themselves.
- Don Lewis @ Flick Nation
- Mike McGranaghan @ The Aisle Seat
- Excerpt: A stunning, soul-stirring, not-to-be-missed film.
- Jason McKiernan @ Film Racket
- Simon Miraudo @ Student Edge
- Jared Mobarak @ Jared Mobarak Reviews
- Excerpt: Tremblay is all in-the-moment instinct without a trace of artifice despite the character being so fully manufactured to fit the insane circumstances of his tragic life. He’s tempestuous and impatient—unsurprisingly considering the stress his mother goes through on a daily basis as well as the lack of resources to discipline—but just as sweet and loving while everything around him is drenched in despair.
- Stefan Pape @ HeyUGuys
- João Pinto @ Portal Cinema [Portuguese]
- Jason Pirodsky @ Expats.cz
- Excerpt: Larson is destined – deservedly so – for year-end awards as the mother, and the supporting cast (especially Allen and McCamus) also contributes fine work. But the real standout here is young Tremblay, in one of the most heartrending child performances ever to grace the screen.
- Kristy Puchko @ Pajiba
- Excerpt: Rich with emotion as it is hope, Room is a rare celebration of the mother-son bond, intertwined with an escape narrative that will have you holding your breath.
- Jerry Roberts @ Armchair Cinema
- Excerpt: The basic concept of Room sounds like some kind of overzealous Lifetime Original Movie and in lesser hands it may very well have been exactly that. But here is a movie much smarter than the sum of its parts, a powerful human drama about the spaces we occupy both physically and mentally to contain the things that threaten to do us harm.
- Tom Santilli @ Examiner.com
- Excerpt: the movie is generating loads of Oscar buzz surrounding the phenomenal Brie Larson, there is a truly Oscar-worthy performance by 9-year-old actor Jacob Tremblay, who not only carries the movie, but turns in one of the best child performances in the history of movies.
- Courtney Small @ Cinema Axis
- Thomas Spurlin @ DVDTalk.com
- Frank Swietek @ One Guys Opinion
- Excerpt: A small, confined film in physical terms, but emotionally it’s expansive and resonant.
- David Upton @ Front Row Reviews
- Rob Wallis @ The Metropolist
- Excerpt: Room is a minor masterpiece in microcosm.
