Room
Hart Sharp Video | Release Date: June 28, 2006 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
64
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 8 Critic Reviews
Positive:
6
Mixed:
1
Negative:
1
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78
Austin ChronicleKimberley Jones
For a film about looking for a sign, looking for solace, Room quite brazenly offers neither. It isn't an easy film, but the world's already got plenty of easy and easily digestible films. Read full review
75
TV Guide MagazineKen Fox
Winner of the John Cassavetes Award for Best Feature Under $500K at the 2006 Independent Spirit Awards, Henry's film is beautifully shot and extraordinarily well acted by Williams. Read full review
75
New York PostV.A. Musetto
The plot of the indie feature Room is, shall we say, sketchy. But that's a minor annoyance thanks to a gutsy performance by Cyndi Williams and vibrating cinematography by P.J. Raval. Read full review
70
VarietyScott Foundas
A perceptive, unsettling psychodrama marking the assured feature writing and directing debut of shorts filmmaker Kyle Henry. Read full review
70
Village VoiceEd Halter
One of those rare American indies that confidently and successfully propose their own narrative logic, drawing viewers into a mental puzzle that may not contain a single clear solution. Read full review
70
The New York TimesNathan Lee
Room is an existential horror film, a parable of the war against terror being waged in Julia's psyche. Read full review
40
Chicago ReaderJ.R. Jones
Packs a punch in its first act with a passionate lead performance by Cyndi Williams and a painfully concrete sense of modern life closing in. But gradually it slips into the indie paradigm of an alienated soul rushing into darkness, climaxing with a semiabstract montage sequence that's more rhetorical than dramatic. Read full review
25
Chicago TribuneMichael Esposito
Williams does a fine job with her role. I was pulling for her throughout her dreary journey. It's too bad it didn't get anywhere. Read full review
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