A darkly beautiful incubated snapshot of a mother-son relationship

Rating: 9/10 (1 November 2015)

"Flashbacks and dream sequences are traded for raw, uninterrupted life in the room that boldly encapsulates 94 of the film's 188-minute runtime. The shed's cold interior is wearied on the eyes, Jack and Joy's various crafts applying faint signs of life, and as we are left to witness a darkly beautiful incubated snapshot of a mother-son relationship; the anger, the amendments, the curiosity, the tears, the laughs. And surrounding it all are four unforgiving walls, which, once knocked down, the simplest joys of a boy and a dog, bedrooms, family dinners make for some of the most uniquely liberating cinematic moments of recent memory."
FULL REVIEW HERE: indieadam.com/2015/10/29/room-review-indie-adam/