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Mary F. Pols, TIME Magazine: Maybe they're all right. Or wrong. It can't be settled. What matters is that people are still crazy about the beauty of a beautiful movie about going crazy. Read more
Manohla Dargis, New York Times: Part of what makes "Room 237" fascinating to watch and think about (beyond other people's loopiness) is that it shows how works of art become encrusted with their reception. Read more
Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal: [It] may be the surpassingly eccentric-and enormously entertaining-film that Kubrick deserves. Read more
Jeff Shannon, Seattle Times: "Room 237" is an act of uncommon devotion to cinema, embracing the notion that movies are best defined by what happens to us as we watch them - how our own beliefs and experiences dictate our interpretation of what we've seen and heard. Read more
William Goss, MSN Movies: ...brings the realms of film theory and conspiracy theory a bit closer together. Read more
Noel Murray, AV Club: The effect of Room 237 is intense. It's a deep dive into the rabbit hole of semiotics, designed to train viewers to become alert to what they're really seeing. Read more
Bill Goodykoontz, Arizona Republic: It's nuts, in the best possible way. Read more
Ty Burr, Boston Globe: It's about the human need for stuff to make sense - especially overpowering emotional experiences - and the tendency for some people to take that sense-making to extremes. Read more
J. R. Jones, Chicago Reader: This is sure to amuse you if you get a bang out of the claims that Paul McCartney died in 1966 and Dark Side of the Moon was intended as a soundtrack for The Wizard of Oz. Read more
Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune: I found most of what's actually put forth in the film interpretively ridiculous. But I'm just one theorist among millions, and the film worked for me anyway. Read more
Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor: Their imaginings are not far removed from the deconstuctionist gobbledygook that has hammerlocked academic film and literary scholarship. But here at least the gobbledygook is entertaining. Read more
Tom Long, Detroit News: The results can range from enlightening - Kubrick did like to mess with things - to embarrassing. But it's never dull. "Room 237" shines. Read more
Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: It works like a Kubrickian Da Vinci Code, and it lures you into seeing The Shining as a kind of feature-length Zapruder film. Read more
Todd McCarthy, Hollywood Reporter: A wacky, sometimes hilariously esoteric deconstruction of the subliminal messages and hidden meanings in Stanley Kubrick's The Shining. Read more
Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: [An] intriguing documentary ... Read more
Rene Rodriguez, Miami Herald: You don't have to buy any of the nutty theories in Room 237 to appreciate what director Rodney Ascher has accomplished. Read more
David Thomson, The New Republic: A curious and entertaining documentary. Read more
John Anderson, Newsday: There's enough real evidence supporting the theory that Kubrick was a genius, and that's pretty entertaining all by itself. Read more
Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger: A beautifully edited, deeply strange compendium of what different people have read into a single film. Read more
Scott Tobias, NPR: A thrilling testament to the fact that art is - and should be - open to interpretation. Read more
Kyle Smith, New York Post: The theories proposed in the doc "Room 237" aren't eye-opening. They're laughable. Read more
Jim Emerson, Chicago Sun-Times: Listening to fanatics go on and on about their fixations can be kind of fun. For a while, at least. Read more
Peter Travers, Rolling Stone: Ascher's unique and unforgettable film is a tribute to movie love. I couldn't have liked it more. Read more
Andrew O'Hehir, Salon.com: This movie about a labyrinth with a monster at its center is itself a labyrinth, [Ascher] tells us; better leave a trail of breadcrumbs behind you if you hope to get out. Read more
Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune: "Room 237" evolves from an ode to movie love at its most delirious to a wry examination of the crackpot mind at work. Read more
J. Hoberman, Tablet: Do the Kabbalist readings or wild free associations that Room 237 celebrates improve The Shining? Let's say that they create a parallel text: Lost in the Overlook, in search of the overlooked. Read more
Rick Groen, Globe and Mail: [A] strange, frustrating, occasionally fascinating doc ... Read more
Peter Howell, Toronto Star: The human brain is a marvellously suggestible organ. Read more
Dave Calhoun, Time Out: What's attractive about 'Room 237' is how it demands that we look more closely at films, and think about motives and subtexts. Read more
Joshua Rothkopf, Time Out: Steadily, Room 237 becomes a rare kind of bird: a critical analysis that leans not on unquestionable authority but creative speculation. Read more
Steve Erickson, Village Voice: Room 237 evokes the appeal of conspiracy theories while refusing to endorse or completely disavow them. Read more
David Edelstein, New York Magazine/Vulture: As amusing as the movie is, I think in the end that Ascher misses the labyrinth for the trees. Read more