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8 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 78Austin ChronicleKimberley JonesAustin ChronicleKimberley JonesFor 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.
- 75TV Guide MagazineKen FoxTV Guide MagazineKen FoxWinner 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.
- 75New York PostV.A. MusettoNew York PostV.A. MusettoThe 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.
- 70VarietyScott FoundasVarietyScott FoundasA perceptive, unsettling psychodrama marking the assured feature writing and directing debut of shorts filmmaker Kyle Henry.
- 70Village VoiceVillage VoiceOne 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.
- Room is an existential horror film, a parable of the war against terror being waged in Julia's psyche.
- 40Chicago ReaderJ.R. JonesChicago ReaderJ.R. JonesPacks 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.
- 25Chicago TribuneChicago TribuneWilliams 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.