15 Movies That Made Us Cry All the Tears This Year

I maintain that Room, even though it's about a woman and her child being imprisoned by a twisted man, is actually life-affirming. That's not to say that I didn't sob my way through the movie, and I fully blame the brilliant acting of Jacob Tremblay and Brie Larson. In my opinion, this is the most emotional movie of the year, for many different reasons.

— Shannon Vestal Robson, content director