Welcome to Screen Gems, our weekend dive into queer and queer-adjacent titles of the past that deserve a watch or a rewatch.We know, we know: the long-delayed movie adaptation of Rent sure as heck ain’t perfect.
Director Chris Columbus doesn’t quite know how to stage the musical sequences so as not to feel like an overlong music video.
The movie is somehow less gritty and stark than the stage version when it comes to depicting sex, drug addiction, poverty, and the pain of HIV/AIDS.