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Metascore
7 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 83The Film StageJared MobarakThe Film StageJared MobarakThe Oak Room is playing games with us as well.
- 75Original-CinJim SlotekOriginal-CinJim SlotekThis story about stories is best absorbed if you’re not in a hurry. The Oak Room is not long (88 minutes), but the words demand attention.
- 75The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Brad WheelerThe Globe and Mail (Toronto)Brad WheelerA lot of things are said; a lot is not. It was a dark and stormy night. An audience walks into a film – and stays for the whole 90 minutes, because it is worth it.
- 65Film ThreatFilm ThreatThe Oak Room is a movie that purports to be seen as a dark and twisty backwoods noir but takes so much time getting to where it actually wants to go that by the time the story winds itself up, we’ve lost interest.
- 38Movie NationRoger MooreMovie NationRoger MooreThis cut-and-paste cliche collection could have been written by a machine.
- 38RogerEbert.comChristy LemireRogerEbert.comChristy LemireBack and forth The Oak Room goes, without ever building the tension it ostensibly seeks. Instead, it meanders from tale to tale, and the writing isn’t sharp or specific enough to sustain this kind of complex framework.