Good Neighbors (2011)
Average Rating: 6/10
Reviews Counted: 24
Fresh: 16 | Rotten: 8
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Average Rating: 6.6/10
Critic Reviews: 10
Fresh: 6 | Rotten: 4
No consensus yet.
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Average Rating: 2.9/5
User Ratings: 2,127
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Neighbors Spencer (Scott Speedman) and Louise (Emily Hampshire) have bonded over their fascination with a recent string of murders terrorizing their community. When a new tenant named Victor (Jay Baruchel) arrives in the building, all three quickly hit it off. But as they soon discover, each of them has their own dark secret. As the violence outside mounts, the city retreats indoors for safety. But the more time these three spend together in their apartment building, the clearer it becomes that
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Cast
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Scott Speedman
Spencer -
Emily Hampshire
Louise -
Jay Baruchel
Victor -
Anne-Marie Cadieux
Valérie Langlois, Vale... -
Micheline Lanctôt
Mme Gauthier, Mme. Gaut... -
Gary Farmer
Brandt -
Pat Kiely
Bilodeau -
Kaniehtiio Horn
Johanne -
Diane D'Aquila
Miss Van Ilen -
Clara Furey
Nathalie -
Xavier Dolan
Jean-Marc -
Sean Lu
Mr. Chou -
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All Critics (26) | Top Critics (11) | Fresh (16) | Rotten (8) | DVD (2)
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.
Top CriticSwerving from bland to brutal, endearingly coy to shockingly explicit, the Canadian import "Good Neighbors" finds pitch-black comedy among white-bread lives.
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.
An agreeably sick little movie about a serial killer, a bunch of cats and the uneasy tenants of a Montreal apartment complex.
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.
It's blackhearted fun, but eventually the spurt runs dry, and all that's left is a pallid corpse.
A sneakily absorbing indie thriller.
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.
Inspired pitch-black humor and a crackerjack ensemble.
For sheer, absurd gruesomeness, one stomach-turning scene in this obnoxious, uninvolving Canadian thriller could win 2011's prize.
desperately in need of a more refined directorial palette
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.
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.
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.
A solid, respectable genre piece that should play extra well when watched late one night in your own one or two-bedroom high-rise dwelling.
'Good Neighbors' borders on a beneficial near amateurishness as it picks up headway to finish with a rare satisfactory twist and undeclared future.
An effective noirish drama of three neighbors with hidden, violent flaws
Audience Reviews for Good Neighbors
Super Reviewer
"You never know who's living right next door."
Good Neighbors is not the best of suspense thrillers. For one, it lacks suspense for 90 percent of the runtime. The other thing is that it can't decide whether to be too subtle or too gruesome. So it goes for a subtle blandness for the first part of the movie and then begins to throw some pretty morbid stuff at the viewer as it goes. I wasn't expecting some of the graphic violence this film showed halfway through. Violence isn't something that phases me as a moviegoer; it's just that this had a feel of a subtle film, not an in your face one.
The story takes place in Canada in the midst of many killings at the hand of some serial killer. Victor moves into an apartment where he meets Louise and Spencer. Louise has a weird dependence on her cats and Spencer is wheelchair bound. The three have dinner and become friends to a certain extent. Then a bunch of crap happens that we aren't suppose to expect, but we kind of do anyway.
It's not badly made. It looks pretty good and the cast isn't too bad. Nothing about the movie screams terrible, but nothing about it stands out to the point where I'd want to ever watch it again, or would even recommend to anyone to watch once. It's a decent enough effort though.
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- Louise: Should I be concerned for my safety?
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- Spencer: Why do you think you're so interested in this stuff?
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Foreign Titles
- Good Neighbors (DE)
- Good Neighbors (UK)
