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Rent (2005)

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Average Rating: 5.8/10
Reviews Counted: 169
Fresh: 78 | Rotten: 91

Fans of the stage musical may forgive Rent its flaws, but weak direction, inescapable staginess and an irritating faux-boho pretension prevent the film from connecting on screen.

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Average Rating: 5.5/10
Critic Reviews: 37
Fresh: 15 | Rotten: 22

Fans of the stage musical may forgive Rent its flaws, but weak direction, inescapable staginess and an irritating faux-boho pretension prevent the film from connecting on screen.

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This film adaptation of the Broadway musical based loosely on Puccini's opera La Bohčme features many members of the original cast. It follows a year in the lives of seven friends living the disappearing Bohemian lifestyle in New York's East Village. AIDS and both its physical and emotional complications pervade the lives of Roger (Adam Pascal), Mimi (Rosario Dawson), Tom (Jesse L. Martin), and Angel (Wilson Jermaine Heredia); Maureen (Idina Menzel) deals with her chronic infidelity through

PG-13,

Romance, Musical & Performing Arts, Comedy

Feb 21, 2006

$29.1M

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The movie, directed without a personal stamp of any kind by Chris Columbus, is so slick that the grime comes from a spray can and the grungy bohemian costumes look rented from a Betsey Johnson boutique sale.

December 21, 2005
Rex Reed
New York Observer
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It's real -- and, on screen, it's really cringe-worthy. Not quite Phantom of the Opera cringe-worthy, but not as much fun to blow raspberries at, either.

December 8, 2005 Full Review Source: Slate
David Edelstein
Slate
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The film captures the beautiful spirit and the raw energy of Larson's play, and it respects the wonderful, gorgeous, life-affirming music.

November 29, 2005 Full Review Source: Ebert & Roeper
Richard Roeper
Ebert & Roeper
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RENT is mediocre and recommended only to those who can claim a familiarity with the play.

November 28, 2005 Full Review Source: ReelViews | Comment (1)
James Berardinelli
ReelViews
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A mediocre, unimaginative, inefficient filmmaker, Columbus delivers a Rent that isn't so much bad as perfunctory.

November 28, 2005
Houston Chronicle
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As directed by Columbus, Jonathan Larson's East Village reworking of 'La Boheme' in the age of AIDS retains its calisthenic pathos, as well as most of its original cast, but you'd have to be a real Rent-Head to envisage Academy Awards in its future.

November 28, 2005 Full Review Source: Christian Science Monitor
Peter Rainer
Christian Science Monitor
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As strong as the music is, there's not much tying Rent together; it's a series of sequences, not a story.

April 25, 2011 Full Review Source: ComingSoon.net
Joshua Starnes
ComingSoon.net

A TV-special metallic ring hangs over the whole production, skimming surfaces without touching emotion

September 1, 2009 Full Review Source: CinePassion
Fernando F. Croce
CinePassion

If a bunch of models living in a huge apartment without income is America, then I live in Bizarro World...

April 29, 2009 Full Review Source: Cinema Crazed
Felix Vasquez Jr.
Cinema Crazed

Artists in 1989 New York face eviction, addiction, and AIDS.

July 16, 2008 Full Review Source: Common Sense Media
Cynthia Fuchs
Common Sense Media

The DVD edition (Feb 2006) contains deleted scenes, alternate ending, commentary form director Columbus, and one touching featurette, in which cast members recall creator Larson's showbiz life.

July 27, 2007 Full Review Source: EmanuelLevy.Com
Emanuel Levy
EmanuelLevy.Com

film, za razliku od predstave, daleko bolje isti%u010De jednodimenzionalnost i neuvjerljivost likova

June 22, 2007 Full Review Source: Index.hr
Dragan Antulov
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Recommended, but only for shut-ins who can't make it to a local live theater production of the play.

May 30, 2007 Full Review Source: Upstage Magazine
Kam Williams
Upstage Magazine

Crafted with obvious care and deep love by director Chris Columbus and his team.

March 1, 2007 Full Review Source: Film Journal International
David Noh
Film Journal International

For all the big themes Rent deals with -- love, death, injustice, community -- it still seems a bit superficial

October 2, 2006
Lisa Ann Cockrel
Christianity Today
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RENT is, all in all, truly lovable. I listened to the soundtrack to the Broadway musical after I watched this, and I realized immediately that a good chunk of the music was cut out and transformed into dialogue (i.e. the argument at the café which ends in the waiter telling Mark that he could not pay for his coffee last time he visited the café), but, defensively, that makes the film more cinematic.
June 14, 2011
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Alexander Diminiano

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In trying to let the classic songs and the classic story speak for themselves, Chris Columbus' direction comes off as totally uninspired and boring. Despite this the movie succeeds because the songs are classic and so is the touching and timeless story. The actors are all too old for the roles, but since they originated them it's nothing but natural. "Rent" is an iconic musical with an important message.
August 9, 2010
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Steven Carrier

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    1. Joanne Jefferson: Be wise, 'cause this girl satisfies. You got a prize? Well don't compromise, you're one lucky baby.
    – Submitted by Beatrice O (9 months ago)
    1. Mark Cohen: Time flys; time dies. Glory.
    – Submitted by Mason P (12 months ago)
    1. Mimi Marquez: There's only us, there's only this. Forget regret. Or life is yours to miss. No other road, no other way, no day but today.
    – Submitted by Matt G (19 months ago)

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