The Boy Next Door Reviews

Movie Reviews

• the sex is surprisingly steamy considering how dumb and dull The Boy Next Door is, inspiring more unintentional laughter than thrills with Jennifer Lopez as a teacher

  by Linda Barnard [Toronto Star ]

• The Boy Next Door is an improvement on Lopez's forgettable rom-coms. And while not exactly an inventive story, the movie is a diverting guilty pleasure, laden with eye candy and familiar thrills

  by Claudia Puig [USA Today ]

• it's not much fun at all, but at least it's over

  by Moira MacDonald [Seattle Times ]

• it's not fun junk. It doesn't even merit a good hate-watching, because the whole thing is so meh

  by Randy Cordova [Arizona Republic ]

• it's all lowest-common-denominator work for an actress whose appeal adds up to so much more

  by Joe Neumaier [NY Daily News ]

• intentionally or not, it plays like as a fun, loud parody of reactionary thrillers

  Review rate : B- by Ignatiy Vishnevetsky [A.V. Club ]

• "The Boy Next Door" wants badly to be a cut-rate "Fatal Attraction," but ends up getting more laughs than many comedies

  by Lou Lumenick [New York Post ]

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