Weekend Film Reviews
Room
Although its derivations are anything but poetic -- notorious cases of real-life imprisonment and abuse, Room is as beautifully wrought as any film that's come our way in a very long while.
By Joe Morgenstern • • 3m ListenRoom director Lenny Abrahamson and writer Emma Donoghue, who adapted her novel for the screen, have transformed ghastly reality into an exquisitely intimate study of a mother's devotion and a child's efforts to understand what lies beyond the four walls of his room.
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