Good Neighbours Reviews
Shelagh Rowan-Legg That Shelf
This film has one of the best murder scenes in recent film memory. It's brutal and hilarious at the same time - and a must-see for cat lovers.
Full Review | May 14, 2018
Brian D. Johnson Maclean's Magazine
The film is superbly crafted, with veteran cinematographer Guy Dufaux composing a coherent palette of dark, rich interiors.
Full Review | Jul 13, 2015
Will Leitch Deadspin
Not a crackerjack thriller by any means, and I'm not sure it means to be: It's a dark comedy about people who do horrible things.
Full Review | Original Score: B- | Jun 22, 2013
Heather Wixson Dread Central
Good Neighbors ends up being a rather unremarkable dramatic thriller that squanders any potential for greatness it had with a bland and uninspired finale.
Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5 | Aug 10, 2011
Mike Scott Times-Picayune
A sneakily absorbing indie thriller.
Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 5, 2011
John Blahnik New York Press
Thankfully Tierney saves the film from becoming a prosaic whodunit by casually revealing the murder's identity 40 minutes in, forcing Good Neighbors to succeed as all films should, through character and style.
Full Review | Aug 4, 2011
Pam Grady Boxoffice Magazine
Inspired pitch-black humor and a crackerjack ensemble.
Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 30, 2011
David Noh Film Journal International
For sheer, absurd gruesomeness, one stomach-turning scene in this obnoxious, uninvolving Canadian thriller could win 2011's prize.
Full Review | Jul 29, 2011
V.A. Musetto New York Post
Working from a 1982 novel set in Quebec City, director-writer Jacob Tierney provides enough thrills and surprises, even a little satire, to keep viewers' attention.
Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 29, 2011
Jeannette Catsoulis New York Times
Swerving from bland to brutal, endearingly coy to shockingly explicit, the Canadian import "Good Neighbors" finds pitch-black comedy among white-bread lives.
Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jul 28, 2011
Christopher Null Filmcritic.com
desperately in need of a more refined directorial palette
Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Jul 28, 2011
Alonso Duralde TheWrap
There's enough creepy tension and nefarious deeds afoot to make for a really suspenseful short film, but even at just 96 minutes, Good Neighbors outstays its welcome.
Full Review | Jul 28, 2011
Kirk Honeycutt Hollywood Reporter
An agreeably sick little movie about a serial killer, a bunch of cats and the uneasy tenants of a Montreal apartment complex.
Full Review | Jul 28, 2011
Paul Schrodt Slant Magazine
The tone of the film is off-key from the beginning, a fact that's not helped by the presence of Speedman, onetime Felicity heartthrob.
Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4 | Jul 28, 2011
Alison Willmore AV Club
Good Neighbors is a darkly comedic thriller with echoes of Shallow Grave and an undercurrent of repressed Canadian rage, and though it comes to an anticlimactic end, it manages a lot with a slow build of unease.
Full Review | Original Score: B- | Jul 28, 2011
Rex Reed Observer
Good Neighbors is a hotbed of twisted ideas with a straightforward yet novel approach to the Gothic horror in the hearts of mistakenly everyday people.
Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 27, 2011
Sam Adams Time Out
It's blackhearted fun, but eventually the spurt runs dry, and all that's left is a pallid corpse.
Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 27, 2011
Brian Orndorf BrianOrndorf.com
Writer/director Jacob Tierney is spun dizzy by the complex narrative of deceptions and confessions, laboring over moody particulars while the tension gradually dries up.
Full Review | Original Score: C+ | Jul 26, 2011
Perri Nemiroff Shockya.com
Perhaps 'The Trotsky' drained Tierney and Baruchel of all their pep and passion because this follow-up collaboration is quite the opposite, dull and lifeless.
Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 26, 2011
Michelle Orange Village Voice
Tierney offers what preparations he can for the offbeat darkness to come, but at least one part of the perfect, triple-crossing crime that plays out is so black you may want to wear shades.
Full Review | Jul 26, 2011