Rent
Columbia Pictures | Release Date: November 23, 2005 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
53
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 35 Critic Reviews
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17
Mixed:
14
Negative:
4
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30
Los Angeles TimesCarina Chocano
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 full review
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Dallas ObserverMelissa Levine
Rent plays as a very long joke with no punch line, an exercise in mawkish sentimentality that's embarrassing to watch. Kudos to the actors for truly committing to their roles, but with this material, it might have been better if they hadn't. Read full review
30
Wall Street JournalJoe Morgenstern
Heart-breakingly awful -- slow, lugubrious, and misconceived to the point of baffling amateurism.
20
Film ThreatPete Vonder Haar
To paraphrase the play's most famous song: how do you measure the lien against your soul when you're forced to sit through something as forcibly maudlin as Rent? I dunno, but 525,600 minutes is about how long this movie felt at times. Read full review
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