It takes a special kind of ‘bad’ to gain a cult following, let alone a film that tries a little too hard. And for all its intents and purposes, “The Room” is that movie.

| Original Score: 0.5/5 | Aug 24, 2024

I bet Wiseau’s first feature could make Ed Wood’s bones dance... The level of genius necessary to emulate authentic incompetence would approach Borgesian heights: there will be no pastiche called “Pierre Menard, Director of ‘The Room."

| Original Score: 3/10 | Nov 19, 2023

An earnest yuppie take on Arthur Milleresque soul searching, as conceived by a space alien with very little grasp on ordinary human behavior...

| Jun 8, 2023

There's no denying the pleasure one receives from the viewing experience - not from the film, per se, but from the experience of watching the film.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 17, 2022

Objectively of course it's beyond terrible but take it as a comedy, you'll have the greatest time ever.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Jan 31, 2021

Steadily grows more outrageous in its awfulness, generating countless laugh-out-loud moments.

| Original Score: 4/10 | Nov 9, 2020

I didn't get it. Maybe because I watched it alone. This film isn't intentionally bad but it's bad.

| Original Score: 0/5 | Jan 22, 2020

We sit there in the dark, our eyes move over flutters of passive motion, and eventually the screen goes black. That's it.

| Original Score: 0/4 | Dec 2, 2017

The Room is pure unintentional camp. Somehow 14 years later it's still popular and is now considered a cult classic.

| Original Score: 1/10 | Dec 1, 2017

It is, in short, the ne plus ultra of crap. A trash masterpiece.

| Nov 29, 2017

...has what every landmark bad movie needs: total commitment.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Nov 15, 2017

One of the only films from the whole of the 21st Century to live up to every fragment of its hype.

| Original Score: 1/10 | Dec 11, 2016

If there is a 21st-century Edward D. Wood Jr., it is probably Tommy Wiseau.

| Jun 18, 2016

What puts "The Room" in a class of its own is its overabundant idiocy. While you're still gasping at one of the film's moronic lines or vagrant plot knots, another one rises up to smack you in the head.

| Apr 24, 2015

Trust me, you've gotta check this thing out at least once, especially if you like football.

| Original Score: F | Apr 17, 2015

To make a movie that's so bad it's good you need vision, drive, luck and obsessive vanity. Fortuitously, The Room's writer/producer/director/star Tommy Wiseau appears to possess all of these qualities, combined with a total lack of acting talent.

| May 24, 2013

A movie so bad, so inept, so unbelievably painful, it's almost impossible to comprehend anyone thought it would be great on-screen...

| Aug 23, 2012

As someone who's watched more bad movies than you can imagine, I'm mostly immune to the so-bad-it's-good aesthetic, though I can see how, viewed in a theater at midnight after a few drinks, this might conjure up its own hilariously demented reality.

| Oct 20, 2011

The question becomes, How much punishment can the audience take and still keep on howling?

| Oct 14, 2011

Watching The Room is like crossing over to a counterfactual universe where the rules of film grammar and screenwriting have been written by Dan Brown.

| Jun 30, 2011