Held captive for 7 years in an enclosed space, a woman and her young son finally gain their freedom, allowing the boy to experience the outside world for the first time.
It's hard to think of a movie adaptation of a book that feels truer and more loyal to its source than Room.
– Sophie Gilbert,
The Atlantic,
30 Dec 2015
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It's a deeply satisfying, profoundly moving adaptation of a popular novel, an all-too-rare occurrence in modern Hollywood.
– Preston Jones,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com,
30 Dec 2015
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Room is astonishing: It transmutes a lurid, true-crime situation into a fairy tale in which fairy tales are a source of survival.
– David Edelstein,
New York Magazine/Vulture,
30 Dec 2015
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Room is a good movie with a great performance at its core. Larson's career was already going places... But Room will be remembered as the movie that etched her permanent place on the map.
– Chris Vognar,
Dallas Morning News,
30 Dec 2015
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Arresting and heartbreaking, wrought with extremes of tension and love, Room is as evocative and unforgettable on screen as in the bestselling novel that inspired it.