Rent Critic's Reviews

[Unknown User]

Posted: 11/25/05 at 6:05pm

I was reading some magazines and searching the internet for Rent reviews, when I realized that all of the critics say the same thing: "what an awful movie." It was completely trashed.

MSN said that Rent needs "a new lease". Us Weekly said that it was a film to rent 4 months later. People said that you shouldn't waste your time seeing this movie.

Now I personally loved the movie. I laughed, cried, shook. But everyone else in the theater didn't feel any emotion to it. Most of the people said it was "flat." One guy even said, "They should've ****ed before the died."
Which made me so angry that I wanted to slap him.

What does everyone else think of this?

[pab]

Posted: 11/25/05 at 6:08pm

Are you serious? There are about fifty threads on this topic, I'm sure you could have posted this on one of them and got to see what EVERYONE else thought. The search feature still works on this board.


Try this one for a start

Updated On: 11/25/05 at 06:08 PM

[jrb_actor]

Posted: 11/25/05 at 6:12pm

from Yahoo

Critics Reviews Average Grade: B

Source Brief Review Grade*

Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Melinda Ennis "Don't wait to rent this well-adapted version of the Broadway hit..." more... B+

Boston Globe
Wesley Morris "Some of the staging is just dumb." more... C

Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert "On film, Rent is the sound of one hand clapping." more... B-

Chicago Tribune
Michael Phillips "...a pretty good version of a pretty great stage phenomenon." more... B

E! Online "...this is a Rent to own." more... B+

Entertainment Weekly
Owen Gleiberman "...a joyful surprise." more... A-

filmcritic.com
Chris Barsanti "... one of the most refreshingly exuberant films of the year." more... B+

Hollywood Reporter
Kirk Honeycutt "Hugely entertaining and high-spirited adaptation of the hit rock opera." more... A

New York Post
Kyle Smith "...sprinkling showbiz fairydust into the most ludicrous situations." more... C

New York Times
A.O. Scott "...every time the film seemed ready to tip into awfulness, the sneer on my lips was trumped by the lump in my throat." more... B

San Francisco Chronicle
Ruthe Stein "...to director Chris Columbus' credit, his schizoid approach works more often than not." more... B

Seattle Post-Intelligencer
William Arnold "...still a powerful gut punch." more... A-

USA Today
Mike Clark "...stage-like characterizations clash against realistic East Village settings and homogenized production numbers." more... C