in his first outing as a director, Dave Franco stages a weekend-house-getaway thriller with tense flavor and skill; That said, most of it is skillful and engrossing enough to establish Franco as a director to watch
Dave Franco's directorial debut is a tense and taut emotional thriller; The script, direction, and performances all concoct an anxiety-riddled emotional drama in the first act before descending into traditional, relatively effective horror tropes
Dave Franco makes his directorial debut with "The Rental", a sturdy, small-scale thriller that makes little lasting impact but certainly succeeds in providing some clever jolts
a small but satisfying slice of indie horror; Dave Franco's small but spiffy directorial debut; an occasionally awkward but mostly assured hybrid of horror and chamber dramedy
"The Rental" [is] much smarter than the average thriller; With all-around good performances, compelling themes, and an ever-increasing sense of eeriness, "The Rental" easily ranks among the year's best genre films