Solidly Executed

Rating: 7/10 (4 March 2016)

(spoilers) Directed with competence and subtlety by Lenny Abrahamson, "Room" is winning direction with good score and great acting from leads, especially Jacob Tremblay (young Jack). The claustrophobia of the first 45 min wears a bit, but the filmmakers redeem themselves with an excellent 2nd half of adaptation and re-circulation into society. Camera angles, brightness, and blurriness, including sound muffling are all masterfully distorted and adjusted to impart the strange distress the boy gets put through when transitioning. The dialog is not far-fetched or pandering. Indeed, the movie was very good, adapted from the novel with the same author creating the screenplay as well. 7.5/10 (recommended)