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By Steve Pond (235) for TheWrap (3,203) on 22 Jul 2020

The Rental tries to do a lot of things and succeeds partway in most of them…

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By Andrew Crump (271) for Paste Magazine (2,906) on 22 Jul 2020

The Rental has De Palma vibes with Fincher’s cool, but lacks the former’s exploitative pleasures and the latter’s cinematic expertise…

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By A.a. Dowd (854) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 22 Jul 2020

Much of the first half of the film plays like a straight drama, establishing the conflicts simmering between two couples on a weekend getaway…

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By Leah Greenblatt (734) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 21 Jul 2020

A neat, nasty little thriller with a brutally effective final third…

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By David Ehrlich (1,229) for IndieWire (3,631) on 21 Jul 2020

Even in spite of its obvious nowness, this thing is such a lean, mean, and utterly merciless old school programmer that it might seem anachronistic…

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By Michael Roffman (138) for Consequence of Sound (1,431) on 20 Jul 2020

Franco exercises so much restraint, especially during the frenetic final act, that you’re always left on edge…

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By Jon Frosch (191) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 20 Jul 2020

It's a confident, enjoyably nasty piece of work, unnerving enough to cure your FOMO about that canceled summer vacation…

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By Richard Whittaker (567) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 20 Jul 2020

Take out the masked menace, this is still tense: Add them in, and it's stomach-churning…

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By Chris Evangelista (306) for Slashfilm (971) on 20 Jul 2020

As far as directorial debuts go, The Rental is a strong start for Franco, who proves here he can take not just one but two different tried-and-true…

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By Owen Gleiberman (3,271) for Variety (12,700) on 20 Jul 2020

There’s some crafty artistry at work in The Rental, and also some fairly standard pandering, which feels like a violation of the movie’s…

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By Chuck Bowen (756) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 20 Jul 2020

Dave Franco has a mighty command of silence as a measurement of emotional aftershock…

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By Mick Lasalle (3,303) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 20 Jul 2020

Instead of slavishly appending cliched horror tropes onto his otherwise worthy script, Franco should have at least taken the horror genre seriously…

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By Christopher Schobert (126) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 20 Jul 2020

A sturdy, small-scale thriller that makes little lasting impact but certainly succeeds in providing some clever jolts…

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By Roger Moore (6,008) for Movie Nation (3,875) on 20 Jul 2020

The younger Franco doesn’t reinvent the genre or advance it in any way…

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