Oscars for Larson & Tremblay; one of the year's very best films.

Rating: Null/10 (30 November 2015)

ROOM (2015) **** Brie Larson, Jacob Tremblay, Joan Allen, William H. Macy, Sean Bridgers, Wendy Crewson, Tom McCamus, Amanda Brugel. Incredibly well-acted character study about a young woman (Larson in an Oscar calibre turn) whose 7 year abduction includes the company of her 5 year-old boy (Tremblay in arguably one of the best child actor performances ever committed to film and deserves an Oscar nod too) who manage to survive by their wits with their communication and creating pretend world for her son while attempting to escape her captor in the process. While harrowing in its theme, director Lenny Abrahamson forgoes the Lifetime TV film route and wisely avoids melodrama by invoking full focus on his two leads and their travails and aftermath endurances. Adapting her novel, Emma Donoghue's script is spot-on, engrossing and genuinely moving. One of the year's best films.