The Boy Next Door Movie Reviews
Avg. Critics Rating
Verdict: Bakwaas based on 5 reviews
Avg. User Rating
1.0
Verdict: Bakwaas based on 1 reviews & ratings
3.4
Ignatiy Vishnevetsky | The A.V. Club
Plenty of credit is due to Barbara Curry’s deranged script, set in a suburban fantasyland of doofus bullies, junior proms, and middle-class sex fears; it probably isn’t meant to be a Verhoeven satire, but it sure moves like one.Read full review2.9
Leah Greenblatt | Entertainment Weekly
Boy's premise reeks of stalker-movie mothballs, and it's too timid to fully dive into the high camp it hints at. Instead, this cookie just crumbles.Read full review2.5
Nathan Rabin | The Dissolve
For those seeking guilty laughs and shameless camp, The Boy Next Door is the exact right kind of bad movie. It’s full of unintentional laughs, and transcendently unselfconscious.Read full review2.0
Mohar Basu | Times Of India
Culminating into a horrendously gore-filled climax, this shallow movie offers nothing new and is infuriatingly tiresome to sit through.Read full review2.0
Zeenews Bureau | Zee News
Given the low budget, the production values of the film are good.Mildly entertaining, the film is worth a one-time watch.Read full review2.0
Geeta Masurekar | BookMyShow
It is a decent film to watch with your partner over the weekend. Jennifer Lopez looks gorgeous in every frame but then again, do I need to tell you that? The story catches pace after the interval, so make way for more popcorn!Read full review
1.5
Shalini Langer | Indian Express
There is murder and surprising amount of gore, car crashes and knife-wielding, but none of the brewing sexual tension or fraying tempers that could have made this film different.Read full review1.5
Robert Abele | Los Angeles Times
Breathless, uninspired January junk that feels like the iffiest bits of a Lifetime movie and late-night cable schlock slapped together. (And not erotically.)Read full review1.5
Andrew Barker | Variety
The film’s initial formulaic competence gives way to outright preposterousness rather quickly, hinging on idiot-plot character motivations.Read full review1.3
James Berardinelli | ReelViews
It's badly directed, poorly edited, and features some of the most unconvincing acting this side of a soup commercial.Read full review1.0
Mihir Fadnavis | Mid Day
Sadly, the majority of the film is too serious to be campy and not campy enough to be fun, and neither bad enough to be a recommendation.Read full reviewNR
Drew Taylor | The Playlist
A limp psychosexual thriller that takes a promisingly trashy conceit... and does absolutely nothing with it, and saddles it with wooden performances, poor staging, and a complete lack of conviction. It reaches a nearly operatic level of ineptitude.Read full review
