
When a handsome, charming teenager named Noah (Ryan Guzman) moves in next door, newly separated high-school teacher Claire Peterson (Jennifer Lopez) encourages his friendship and engages in a little bit of harmless (or so she thinks) flirtation. Although Noah spends much of the time hanging out with Claire's son, the teen's attraction to her is palpable. One night, Claire gives in to temptation and lets Noah seduce her, but when she tries to end the relationship, he turns vio... (Full plot summary below)
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When a handsome, charming teenager named Noah (Ryan Guzman) moves in next door, newly separated high-school teacher Claire Peterson (Jennifer Lopez) encourages his friendship and engages in a little bit of harmless (or so she thinks) flirtation. Although Noah spends much of the time hanging out with Claire's son, the teen's attraction to her is palpable. One night, Claire gives in to temptation and lets Noah seduce her, but when she tries to end the relationship, he turns violent.
Leave your thoughts about The Boy Next Door.
| Detroit NewsAdam GrahamRather than being good-bad, "The Boy Next Door" is just plain bad. |
| NewsdayRafer GuzmanIt isn't nearly as daring or discomfiting as it could be. It is, however, trashy good fun and impressively steamy. |
| Us WeeklyMara ReinsteinIt's all hilariously ridiculous, but bless J.Lo for trying her mightiest to sell it. If someone's going to bring sultriness to suburbia, it might as well be Jenny from the Block. |
| Fresno BeeRick BentleyIt is a perfect storm of a worn-out idea, shot with a lack of originality and played out by wooden actors. The Boy Next Door couldn't be any worse if they tried. |
| The PlaylistDrew TaylorA 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. |
| CraveOnlineWilliam BibbianiAn absolute triumph of cheese, served with a generous helping of sleaze. |
| AV ClubIgnatiy VishnevetskyPlenty 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. |
| NOW TorontoRadheyan SimonpillaiWhy Lopez and Step Up's Guzman didn't join forces for a sexy dance-off instead of a piss-poor Fatal Attraction-style domestic thriller is beyond me. |
| OregonianMarc MohanIt's a thriller, if the term can be applied to an inept, perfunctory movie with more laughs than thrills — and it only has a couple laughs. Let's call it an attempted thriller and an inadvertent comedy. |
| The Monitor (McAllen, TX)Brooke CorsoWith no real plot and layers of absurdity, there is nothing serious about the seriousness the characters place in themselves. |