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One of the best Irish movies is showing on TV tonight

Published 13:52 22 Jun 2017 BST

Tony Cuddihy
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If you haven't caught the film adaptation of Emma Donoghue's exceptional novel, tonight is your chance.

Film4 will show Lenny Abrahamson's incredible Room for the first time tonight. https://twitter.com/Film4/status/877257753458233344 Brie Larson took home the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role as a mother being held captive in a tiny room with her young son, played by Jacob Tremblay. Room has a rating of 94% on movie review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes. "All you need to know is that the performances of Larson and Tremblay will blow you away. Tremblay is a child actor incapable of a false move. And Larson, so good in Short Term 12, is magnificent, finding a way into Joy's bruised psyche that tears at your heart," wrote Peter Travers from Rolling Stone magazine. The Irish Times' Donald Clarke gave it a top score of five stars. "It is to Abrahamson’s credit that it proves so hard to position Room within his consistently impressive canon. The Irish trilogy (Adam & Paul, Garage, What Richard Did) did seem to tell a loosely linked story. But Frank was something else altogether. Room seems to spin off in a third direction," he wrote. We caught up with the director, Lenny Abrahamson, when the movie was released last year. Here's the trailer... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_Ci-pAL4eE

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