Room: reviews

What the critics say average 8.5 from 14 outlets

• 10 Chicago Sun-TimesRichard Roeper 'Room' just might be the most impressive piece of filmmaking I've seen in 2015. Read
• 10 The Washington PostAnn Hornaday The movie contains an expansive sense of compassion and humanism thanks to the sensitive direction of Abrahamson. Read
• 10 VultureDavid Edelstein 'Room' is astonishing: It transmutes a lurid, true-crime situation into a fairy tale in which fairy tales are a source of survival. Read
• 10 Entertainment WeeklyChris Nashawaty 'Room' is more than the title of one of the year?s most powerful movies ? it?s a state of mind that?s unbearably tense and as claustrophobic as a straitjacket. Read
• 9.0 New York PostLou Lumenick See it you must for the Oscar-caliber Larson and young Tremblay, whose remarkable mother-and-child bond is nothing sort of astonishing to watch. Read
• 9.0 FotogramasRoger Salvans Is in the alternation of the point of view when Abrahamson shows his talent Read
• 9.0 CinemaníaNando salvá The film excites thanks to their two protagonists. Suggested alternately an impregnable strength and a unbearable fragility. Read
• 8.7 Rolling StonePeter Travers 'Room' deserves to be seen unspoiled. All you need to know is that the performances of Larson and Tremblay will blow you away. Read
• 8.0 VarietyJustin Chang Brie Larson and Jacob Tremblay give this truncated but still-powerful adaptation of Emma Donoghue's novel its beating heart. Read
• 8.0 El MundoAlberto Luchini The first hour is an absolute masterpiece, sixty of the most intense minutes, disturbing and unforgettable of cinema's history. Jacob Tremblay, is the youngest talented actor that anybody has seen on the screen. Read
• 7.5 Los Angeles TimesKenneth Turan The reality and preternatural commitment Brie Larson brings to Ma is piercingly honest from start to finish, as scaldingly emotional a performance as anyone could wish for. Read
• 7.0 The WrapInkoo Kang 'Room' is an important exploration of post-traumatic suffering and resilience. Read
• 6.5 ClarinHoracio Bilbao The futurist set, action, and science fiction mark the contents more than story, however it throws some supporting plots and the films permit that we forget that it is about a great cast franchise. Read
• 6.0 New York TimesManohla Dargis 'Room' can weigh on your heart like a stone because it summons the terrors suffered by real victims. Read