Metacritic reviews

An assured, graceful instance of effective screen storytelling, and Meadows draws splendid performances from his cast, especially from the young Shim and Marshall.

By turns amusing, touching and horrifying, A Room For Romeo Brass is a film that defies expectation at every turn.

Offers an honest, understated and unsentimental look at a small incident in the course of a friendship - but it is the kind of incident that defines most childhoods.

So low-key it could be mistaken for a throwaway. But Meadows's understanding of childhood fears and fantasies and the yearning, heartfelt performances he draws from his two young actors should not be underestimated.

A bitter, black and oddly beautiful story.

It is essentially a personal reminiscence of daily life that captures with an astonishing precision exactly what it felt to be a 12-year- old boy growing up in a particular time and place.

Meadows is very good with the boys' relationship, and achieves his and Fraser's central goal of showing how childhood bonds can be simultaneously fragile and strong.

An easygoing kitchen-sink comedy with an unsettling final act.

Fairly shapeless story.

A kitchen-sink realist coming-of-age story in the venerable British tradition, with all the good and bad that entails.