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For somebody to have made as many movies as Jennifer Lopez, it’s alarming to see just how little of them are actually good. She’s made some right stinkers in her time, and one of them can currently be found flying high on Netflix.

In an on-screen career spanning three decades, Lopez’s cinematic highlights are very few and far between. Steven Soderbergh’s smouldering Out of Sight is definitely one of them, as is her performance in biographical drama Selena, while her Golden Globe-nominated turn in Hustlers features the best work of her entire filmography.

Beyond that? Pickings are slim, to put it lightly. The atrocious Gigli with Ben Affleck, Robin Williams’ mawkish misfire Jack, pretty much any insipid rom-com she’s lent her name to, and revenge thriller Enough are all lurking at the bottom of the barrel, something that can also be said of her recent Netflix originals.

While the action-packed adventures of The Mother and Atlas drew in plenty of viewers, they were each uniquely crap in their own special way. However, it’s not one of the streaming service’s exclusive titles that’s become one of its most-watched films, but a production for which Lopez received the distinction of a Golden Raspberry Award nomination in the ‘Worst Actress’ category.

Hailing from Rob Cohen – the director of the first Fast & Furious but also Stealth and The Mummy: The Tomb of the Dragon Emperor to offer some context – horror merchants Blumhouse threw their weight behind The Boy Next Door, which looked to deliver knowingly cheesy and salaciously campy thrills.

Lopez leads the line as a recently-separated high school teacher, who begins flirting with the titular newcomer to her neighbourhood. Ryan Guzman’s handsome and charming teenager quickly befriends the son of J-Lo’s character, only for the responsible adult to cross the forbidden divide by allowing herself to be seduced.

Realising the error of her ways, she tries to break off their nascent relationship, only to discover her would-be paramour has dark and violent tendencies that are in danger of being unleashed the further away she tries to push him. Resoundingly trashy and cliched to a fault, The Boy Next Door has managed to benefit from the second lease of life so many terrible thrillers before it have found on Netflix.

As a result, it’s currently bringing up the rear as the tenth top-viewed title among subscribers in the United States, even if it’s the sort of movie nobody in their right mind would contemplate watching twice.