If the measure of a story's worth is the empathy you feel for the characters and the amount that you are unable to remove yourself from their circumstances, then Room succeeds by miles.
Though it is a mostly audience-accessible look at a devastating situation, it also does not shy away from the realities of just how something so drastic can change our reality.
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.
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.
