Good Neighbours - Movie Reviews (2024)

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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

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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

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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

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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

A sneakily absorbing indie thriller.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 5, 2011

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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

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Pam Grady Boxoffice Magazine

Inspired pitch-black humor and a crackerjack ensemble.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 30, 2011

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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

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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

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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

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Christopher Null Filmcritic.com

desperately in need of a more refined directorial palette

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Jul 28, 2011

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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