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1. Without the immediacy you get from live theater, you're always going to feel at arm's length listening to people sing simple bits of dialogue like 'I'm so mad I don't know what to do,' or, um, 'Hello.'
2. If Columbus had a concept for the movie, it's not evident, and many of his decisions feel random.
3. Whatever qualities powered Rent to its numerous theater awards and long run onstage are missing from this charmless floperetta.
4. Broad stereotypes engaged in shallow versions of complex issues.
5. A touching cinematic experience of a rousing call-to-arts.
6. If Rent works -- and most of the time, it does so flawlessly -- it is because it remains Rent.
7. A big-hearted, grandly emotional and -- alas -- uneven artistic endeavor.
8. Definitely fits in the tearjerker category... so if you want something besides holiday cheer, there's no day like today to check this out.
9. Yes, Rent is about penniless artists who can't afford to eat or pay their electric bills. But must their straits extend to the threadbare filmmaking, too?
10. I've never seen the stage musical Rent, but the movie had me at hello.