Best: Room (2015) While Jacob Tremblay's performance is brilliant (and deserved an Oscar nomination), Larson's turn as his mother is the real anchor of the movie. Again, it's a performance split down the middle as she's forced to play victim and carer, wounded and impenetrable, haunted and strong, but without ever allowing her character to lose her human appeal. Watching her dealing with the enormity and monstrosity of her situation is devastating, precisely because she is so able to inspire sympathy (even in unthinkable circumstances). Worst: The Trouble With Bliss (2012) A quirky comedy that is neither funny nor interesting, this tale of romantic entanglement is the kind of self-important mess that gives quirky indie films a bad name. Failing to capitalise on the ability of Michael C Hall, Lucy Liu or a young Larson (as Hall's barely legal girlfriend), the film seems to think it inhabits a blackly ironic, interesting world of rich characters, when really it's a cartoon of eccentric idiots it's impossible to feel any positivity for at all.
