...an absurdly melodramatic film that has very little going for it but Lopez, who manages to make it watchable as a happy centre to a rather miserable story..

| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 24, 2024

“The Boy Next Door” is too unconsciously goofy to be taken seriously and it takes itself too seriously to be good campy fun.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Aug 19, 2022

There's enough of a so-bad-it's-good quality to make the film fun, and it's immensely delightful to make fun of.

| Nov 6, 2021

As generic a thriller as the bland title suggests. There are unintentionally camp moments of soap opera melodrama but without the kind of trashy fun that would make this a so-bad-it's-good thriller.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Feb 2, 2021

It is bad, but it's so, so good.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 30, 2020

Earns more giggles than chills.

| Original Score: 1.0/4.0 | Sep 4, 2020

It's a runaway train of camp.

| May 27, 2020

It's awful, but it's fantastic.

| Mar 26, 2020

It's the kind of movie that probably could have been at least entertaining if it was a little more campy, but the dead serious tone makes it rather dreadful.

| Jan 24, 2019

...in an awards season filled with existential crises and heavy historical dramas, maybe [The Boy Next Door] exactly the fun, sexy break we all need.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Dec 25, 2018

Mostly, [The Boy Next Door] takes a disingenuous road to a conventional destination.

| Original Score: C | Dec 20, 2018

Overall, the low-budgeted The Boy Next Door simply fills in the cheesy blanks with its amateurish jitters. With the baseless Boy added to her film credits it appears that Jenny was never on the block.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Nov 10, 2018

The Boy Next Door is not a total travesty as Lopez gives it her all and the film is fairly entertaining for all of its nutty character leaps.

| Original Score: 4.5/10 | Oct 24, 2018

I kinda dug this movie, and I don't feel the least bit guilty about it. In a season filled with overpraised Oscar bait and genuinely wretched winter releases, such unfettered abandon is worth celebrating.

| Aug 22, 2018

The good news is that the entire climax of the film is one giant joke.

| Aug 21, 2018

This is about as awful as films get.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Feb 15, 2018

Perhaps the worst of the film is in the moralizing that inhabits it. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 2/10 | Dec 13, 2017

Culminating into a horrendously gore-filled climax, this shallow movie offers nothing new and is infuriatingly tiresome to sit through.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 9, 2017

With no real plot and layers of absurdity, there is nothing serious about the seriousness the characters place in themselves.

| Original Score: D | Aug 17, 2017

The 1990s were notorious for trashy lightweight thrillers that traded solely on the possibility of glimpsing their high-profile female leads in a steamy scene. Twenty years on, it feels like we've learnt nothing.

| Nov 14, 2016