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The Room

The Room

Horror · Drama · Mystery · 2019

Kate and Matt discover that a part of their house can grant wishes. In the wake of two miscarriages, what they want most is a child.

Movie details

The Room

2019 Horror · Drama · Mystery 1h 39m

Critical arithmetic

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TMDB

6.4 / 10

Community rating

Kate and Matt discover that a part of their house can grant wishes. In the wake of two miscarriages, what they want most is a child.

CriticWise case file

What this film says about your taste.

Not a recommendation score. A measure of how closely the film’s taste signals resemble yours.

The archetype split

Who fights over The Room?

The split comes from the same five-axis model used by the test, not audience ratings or review sentiment.

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Names above the title

The people responsible.

Directed by

Christian Volckman

Written by

Christian Volckman · Éric Forestier

Olga Kurylenko

Olga Kurylenko

Kate

Kevin Janssens

Kevin Janssens

Matt

Francis Chapman

Francis Chapman

Shane

Joshua Wilson

Joshua Wilson

Shane (Age 8)

John Flanders

John Flanders

John Doe

Carole Weyers

Carole Weyers

Madeline Shaeffer

M

Michaël Kahya

M. Schaeffer

Court is in session

Put The Room on trial.

Two incompatible taste archetypes. One film. Read the arguments, then issue a completely binding cultural ruling.

The defence The Arthouse Gremlin

“Its refusal to behave is the point.”

The strange choices create the kind of friction that follows you out of the theatre and into the argument.

The prosecution The Popcorn Loyalist

“Oddness is not depth.”

A film can break every rule and still leave nothing behind but the memory of how hard it tried to be singular.