Synopsis
A recently cheated on married woman falls for a younger man who has moved in next door, but their torrid affair soon takes a dangerous turn.
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Cast
- Jennifer LopezClaire Peterson
- Ryan GuzmanNoah Sandborn
- Ian NelsonKevin Peterson
- John CorbettGarrett Peterson
- Kristin ChenowethVicky Lansing
- Hill HarperPrincipal Edward Warren
- Lexi AtkinsAllie Callahan
- François ChauDetective Johnny Chou
- Bailey ChaseBenny
- Raquel GardnerBarbara
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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. - 60
Village Voice
The movie's not built for belief. It's built for dumb, shivery, sexed-up pleasure, and it delivers, albeit somewhat modestly. - 58
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. - 50
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. - 40
The Hollywood Reporter
It offers January moviegoers some guilty-pleasure thrills and laughs, while falling way short of its potential on both the dramatic and the camp fronts. - 38
Movie Nation
Lopez is a gorgeous woman with the same mousy voice she came into the movies with 20 years ago. She’s all about the makeup, the hair, the clothes. She plays the part like someone imitating a TV teacher, from her classroom posture to her delivery. - 30
Variety
The film’s initial formulaic competence gives way to outright preposterousness rather quickly, hinging on idiot-plot character motivations. - 30
TheWrap
Neither good nor bad, nor campy nor scary enough to be in any way memorable, The Boy Next Door is a lot like our own neighbors, just there. You could make the effort to sneak a peek, but it probably wouldn’t be worth your while.