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Oct 8, 2021
80
Actor Daniel Brühl makes his directorial debut with this delightfully taut, blackly comic satire.
Mar 5, 2021
70
A little more venom or bite might have been welcome but this is still an entertaining skewering of celebrity and the way a single day can flip from triumph to outright disaster
Mar 5, 2021
63
Unlike Malcom & Marie, Daniel Brühl’s feature-length directorial debut proves to be authentically self-castigating.
Mar 5, 2021
60
An amusing, accomplished debut on its own modest terms, Next Door works best as tart meta comedy, becoming increasingly cramped in scope and setting as it spirals into an obsessive revenge thriller.
Mar 16, 2021
58
Contrary to the setup’s illusions, Brühl distances and thus absolves himself by making Daniel a nasty caricature–arrogant, speaking in brooding actorly tones, eager to pose for selfies and flirt with fans. Had he played it straight, Next Door might just have been vital.
Mar 5, 2021
50
Spry enough to sustain its wisp of an idea but too contained in both story and setting to resonate beyond its most basic thrills, Next Door is a pleasantly unfulfilled promise of a debut.
Mar 5, 2021
50
Brühl works confidently as a director and star, however, hopefully with the potential to be a little more ambitious in the future.
Mar 5, 2021
50
The film’s games of genre-shuffling and celebrity self-satire can’t override the essential tedium of its core conflict.
Oct 8, 2021
40
It’s not a vanity project (Brühl does not seem in the least vain) but an actor’s project, nonetheless.
Oct 8, 2021
40
Though Brühl is an affable and witty screen presence, there’s no getting round the fact that the film is a vanity project.