Absolutely NO Room For Improvement

Rating: 10/10 (16 January 2016)

If those members of the Academy eligible to vote for Best Actress had even the smallest sense of justice they'd strike a second Best Actress Oscar and give one each to Saorsie Ronan and Brie Larson because God knows what the other nominees, especially Charlotte Rampling, are even doing on the same short list. But of course the members concerned have long banished the word justice from their collective vocabularies as I predicted right here on IMDb back in November, 2013, when I said in my review of Short Term 12 that neither Larson nor the excellent movie would even be nominated. What can I tell you. Those are the breaks. In a perfect world everyone involved in Room from the Head Honcho right down to the guy who carried beer would be recognized for their contribution to one of the finest movies of the year. Okay, the people responsible for nominating actresses got it right for once but, as if to compensate they failed to even nominate Larson's remarkable co- star Jacob Tremblay. Like Short Term 12 this is hardly Multiplex fodder aimed at the popcorn set but that doesn't mean it shouldn't play in the Multiplexes and expose the cgi sequel freaks to real filmmaking.