Entertainment Weekly | ‘Room’ Review

EW

Room is more than the title of one of the year’s most powerful movies—it’s a state of mind that’s unbearably tense and as claustrophobic as a straitjacket. Based on Emma Donoghue’s 2010 novel (she also penned the screenplay), the film is the harrowing story of a young woman named Joy (Brie Larson) and her 5-year-old son, Jack (Jacob Tremblay), who are imprisoned in a squalid 10-by-10 shed. Jack can’t fathom a world beyond the four walls that pen in his imagination.