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.
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.
– Sandy Cohen,
Associated Press,
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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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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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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It's hard to think of a movie adaptation of a book that feels truer and more loyal to its source than Room.