The Rental

Alison Brie, Sheila Vand, Dan Stevens and Jeremy Allen White

Take your pick – The Rental is a deliberately confounding amalgam of genres or a film that can’t work out what it wants to be. It starts out looking like one of those cabin in the woods things, and we meet two couples – Charlie (Dan Stevens) and Michelle (Alison Brie), Josh (Jeremy Allen White) and Mina (Sheila Vand) – as they’re arriving at a secluded and fabulous place by the coast, complete with ocean view and hot tub. They also have a dog in tow, which the rules of the rental explicitly forbid. But they’re entitled ā€œwhite privilegeā€ kind of guys and so those rules don’t apply. Actually, one of them, Mina, isn’t white … Read more