Rent Critic Reviews
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Based upon 14 Critic Reviews- Highest Rated
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It's pedestrian.Read the full review
On film, Rent is the sound of one hand clapping.Read the full review
The movie is literally a series of showstoppers, unified by the impulse to turn life, at its scruffiest, into theater - into a rhapsody of the everyday.Read the full review
Rent is commodified faux bohemia on a platter, eliciting the same kind of numbing soul-sadness as children's beauty pageants, tiny dogs in expensive boots, Mahatma Gandhi in Apple ads.Read the full review
Mediocre and recommended only to those who can claim a familiarity with the play.Read the full review
Columbus' schizoid approach works more often than not.Read the full review
I found it tiresomely undramatic, even saccharine. Not to mention monotonous.Read the full review
One of the best film musicals in years -- exuberant, sexy and life affirming in equal measure.Read the full review
Often dramatically jumbled and musically muddled - but every time the film seemed ready to tip into awfulness, the sneer on my lips was trumped by the lump in my throat.Read the full review
Yes, Rent is the movie about AIDS, heroin addiction, homosexuality, strippers, marijuana, cross-dressing, and bisexuality audiences can take their grandparents to go see safe in the knowledge that any lingering trace of danger or authenticity has been carefully removed by director/co-writer Chris Columbus.Read the full review
