Room 237

IFC Films | Release Date: March 29, 2013

6.2	USER SCORE Generally favorable reviews based on 101 Ratings

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PoirotNov 1, 2013

I love documentaries. This is the worst documentary I have ever seen. It seems to have been pieced together by a film school student. Each person picks out random meaningless items and state this is the focus and point of the movie. YouI love documentaries. This is the worst documentary I have ever seen. It seems to have been pieced together by a film school student. Each person picks out random meaningless items and state this is the focus and point of the movie. You can look at a poster and state that poster is the entire meaning of the movie. One commentator has to pause so he can take care of a crying child. This is not professionalism. I was completely intrigued by this and it is time that I spent that I will never get back. Do not watch this documentary. Save yourself. This has nothing to do with Stanley Kubrick or The Shinning. It has everything to do with untalented delusional people that want to feel a part of something bigger.… Expand

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mikenastyApr 1, 2013

There are some really interesting points about Kubrick's use of perspective and there is probably something to the Indian genocide theory. But then it tries to make a connection with the fake moon landing hoax?? Not only that but theThere are some really interesting points about Kubrick's use of perspective and there is probably something to the Indian genocide theory. But then it tries to make a connection with the fake moon landing hoax?? Not only that but the filmmaker just assumes the viewer believes that crap and gives no evidence that the moon landing was faked, the nut case narrating just says its fake... so it is. Overall its an interesting watch all the way up to when they talk about how Kubrick filmed the moon landing and then you can just turn it off. Unless you're one of the morons who think we didn't go to the moon, then keep watching and enjoy the idiotic lies.… Expand

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drovskiNov 11, 2013

This film made very wild assumptions about the most minute of details in Kubrick's The Shining. Some connections were so loose that I could barely believe they were being discussed in a serious manner. I had to create an account simply forThis film made very wild assumptions about the most minute of details in Kubrick's The Shining. Some connections were so loose that I could barely believe they were being discussed in a serious manner. I had to create an account simply for the fact that I thought this movie was so bad, and if I can save just one person the time it takes to watch this film, it will all be worthwhile for me. Avoid.… Expand

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BahlemarMar 31, 2013

An utterly laughable tin-foil hat wearing conspiracy nut fest, possibly the worst thing I've ever had the displeasure of watching, i'd ask for my time back but i doubt the people who made this cares about the viewers.

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MattCipolla926Jul 13, 2013

This has to be a joke. Can we just talk about how poorly made this is? The score, interviews, talking and narration is all incredibly choppy and the dramatizations are pretty bad. The people talking about their beliefs are essentiallyThis has to be a joke. Can we just talk about how poorly made this is? The score, interviews, talking and narration is all incredibly choppy and the dramatizations are pretty bad. The people talking about their beliefs are essentially babbling; their arguments and discussions are embarrassingly incoherent, not only in what they're saying, but how they presented it. There are multiple times near the ending where these dumbasses negate and contradict their entire arguments, which are already inane to begin with. One argument says that a tray on a desk makes it looks like Ullman has an erection while shaking hands with Jack. Another says that Room 237 is a sex room and all of the carpet patterns look like penises. We don't know any of the people, their names or their jobs, so they have no credibility at all. One of the men confesses that he's unemployed and obsessed with The Shining, while a woman confesses that she got one of her conspiracy theories from her nine-year-old son. The documentary is such a terrific idea but its execution was shockingly, painfully bad and it actually made The Shining one of my favorite films of all time worse. The more they talked about it, the worse it got, and I got angrier. The people talking sound like they're mentally disabled or mentally ill; there are parts where the voiceovers stop and literally they say, "Wait, I have to help my son. He's crying, but I don't know. Ha ha." These people are so painfully stupid. I've been YouTube videos infinitely better than this pile of crap. A woman behind me was dying laughing at the film, and I started laughing as well. I guess I got some laughs out of it, but they ultimately bored me and made me angry with one of my favorite films of all time. 2.5/10, abysmal, two thumbs down, far below mediocre, etc.… Expand

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violinguy88Dec 23, 2013

Yeah, I love Stanley Kubrick and all of his films (except Barry Lyndon beautiful to look at but snooze time). The Shining is a great film and is totally picked apart by a strange group of people who fill this documentary with odd findingsYeah, I love Stanley Kubrick and all of his films (except Barry Lyndon beautiful to look at but snooze time). The Shining is a great film and is totally picked apart by a strange group of people who fill this documentary with odd findings and conspiracy theories that really demand patience from the audience more than anything else. I found very little of it interesting (if I had found none I would have rated lower), and found most of it just silly. I found myself amused by the absurdity of it more than interested by the premises.… Expand

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titmo71Jun 14, 2014

Moronic. Avoid at all cost , unless you think Bigfoot was behind the Kennedy assassination. In fact, that might be a better theory than the ones you get here to explain the meanings behind "The Shining".

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jackman123123Nov 22, 2014

Some ideas are possible but mostly laughable with posters being minotaurs and glares from cameras being hidden erections as a joke. Possibly enjoyable if you believe in bigfoot and in conspiracy

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Mandirigma88Mar 17, 2022

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. This is one of the most asinine and idiotic movies that I have ever seen. Don't waste your time with this giant collection of movie clips ( spoiler, most aren't clips from the shining movie). So random movie clips play while some pompous narcissistic movie critic blathers about how amazing and magical the movie was. Or how Stanley Kubrick was such a genius. Neither of which seem true to me. Just be warned if you decide to waste your life with this smoldering 2 hour pile of bovine excrement.… Expand

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ateghipcJul 17, 2014

A documentary in glorification, Room 237 lies somewhere between sanity and the realm of the insane. If you had never thought Stanley Kubrick could fake the moon landing, apparently this documentary might be for you. If you had never thoughtA documentary in glorification, Room 237 lies somewhere between sanity and the realm of the insane. If you had never thought Stanley Kubrick could fake the moon landing, apparently this documentary might be for you. If you had never thought Kubrick planted "clues" about this faked moon landing in The Shinning, this documentary might also be for you. Holocaust references? Minotaurs? All of it is here. One thing is clear and that is that most of the content in this documentary elevates Kubrick to the level of some film demigod. What is unfortunate is that somewhere along the way a lot of straws were grasped, but more horrifyingly apparently no one participating in this documentary noticed until about half way in. These Kubrick scholars talk sense in the first hour, when they speak in the abstract, but the attention to detail is largely misplaced and far from acute.… Expand

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