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Neighborhood Watch

Neighborhood Watch

Thriller · Crime · 2025

When a mentally ill young man thinks he witnesses an abduction and the police refuse to believe him, he reluctantly turns to his next door neighbor – a bitter, retired security guard – to help him find the missing woman.

Movie details

Neighborhood Watch

2025 Thriller · Crime 1h 32m

Critical arithmetic

The consensus, allegedly.

IMDb

6.2 / 10

10.3K votes

Rotten Tomatoes

71 %

Tomatometer

Metacritic

74 / 100

Metascore

TMDB

6.3 / 10

Community rating

External scores via OMDb · CC BY-NC 4.0. Values normalized for display; availability varies by title.

When a mentally ill young man thinks he witnesses an abduction and the police refuse to believe him, he reluctantly turns to his next door neighbor – a bitter, retired security guard – to help him find the missing woman.

CriticWise case file

What this film says about your taste.

Not a recommendation score. A measure of how closely the film’s taste signals resemble yours.

The archetype split

Who fights over Neighborhood Watch?

The split comes from the same five-axis model used by the test, not audience ratings or review sentiment.

Taste neighbourhood

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Names above the title

The people responsible.

Directed by

Duncan Skiles

Written by

Sean Farley

Jeffrey Dean Morgan

Jeffrey Dean Morgan

Ed Deerman

Jack Quaid

Jack Quaid

Simon McNally

Malin Akerman

Malin Akerman

DeeDee McNally

Cecile Cubiló

Cecile Cubiló

Detective Glover

Harrison Stone

Harrison Stone

Officer Banks

Porsche Kemp

Porsche Kemp

Officer Gunn

Griffin Hood

Griffin Hood

Kurt

Court is in session

Put Neighborhood Watch on trial.

Two incompatible taste archetypes. One film. Read the arguments, then issue a completely binding cultural ruling.

The defence The Big-Idea Head

“Restraint trusts the audience.”

It leaves emotional space unlabelled, trusting viewers to notice what the characters cannot say aloud.

The prosecution The Sentimental Softie

“Distance mistaken for discipline.”

The chill may look elegant, but withholding a heartbeat is not the same as having complicated feelings.