I remain struck by both the simplicity and tenderness of the narrative that is haunted by a deep tragedy.

| Original Score: A | Mar 21, 2017

Room takes a nightmarish premise in an impossibly contained set and turns it into one of this year's most emotionally poignant films.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 27, 2017

Room is a lithe, deeply moving wonder that builds to a miraculous coda.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Aug 22, 2016

Room can be, at times, an almost unbearably emotional experience, but that's a good thing. It feels good to feel so much at the movies.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jun 12, 2016

This is a film that trusts its audience, and takes its time letting them in on the particulars of what these two are doing in this room.

| May 3, 2016

There's no denying that Room starts from a dark place, but that does not necessarily make it a bleak film.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Feb 12, 2016

Room is a powerful imagining of an extraordinary situation, but it's also a poignant evocation of the ordinary, everyday intensity and complexity of the bond between mother and child.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 3, 2016

Larson delivers every line to perfection and, as it happens, there's not one weak link in the cast.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 18, 2016

Abrahamson has the intelligence to trust his cast to show us the world through their eyes. And oh, what a world it is.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jan 17, 2016

A soul-stirring feel-good weepie.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jan 15, 2016

Room offers highly imaginative and, at times, visionary film-making that transcends its claustrophobic settings and defies genre stereotyping.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 14, 2016

The film's problem... lies in its efforts to convert the story into a metaphor for something larger.

| Jan 14, 2016

We are left with a film that manages a degree of optimism in the most unpromising circumstances. It is a substantial achievement.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jan 14, 2016

This is a disturbing and absorbing film, shrewdly acted, particularly by Larson. It lets the audience in; it does not just let the nightmare stun them into submission.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 14, 2016

Room ... is not a thriller, but a moving feminist tract which explores questions of what it means to be a mother, what it means to give love, and what it means to receive it.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jan 13, 2016

The film derives much of its power, during the times it is powerful, from its central performances.

| Jan 8, 2016

It's a story so abhorrent and seemingly hopeless that there may be times you don't want it to go on, but within its tight confines Lenny Abrahamson, with a script by Emma Donoghue, finds warmth and hope.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 7, 2016

It's hard to think of a movie adaptation of a book that feels truer and more loyal to its source than Room.

| Dec 30, 2015

It's a deeply satisfying, profoundly moving adaptation of a popular novel, an all-too-rare occurrence in modern Hollywood.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 30, 2015

Room is astonishing: It transmutes a lurid, true-crime situation into a fairy tale in which fairy tales are a source of survival.

| Dec 30, 2015