The Perfect Neighbor
First screened in December 2025
Director: Geeta Gandbhir. Documentary about long-escalating tensions in a small Florida community that culminate over years in one neighbor's fatal shooting of another.
Photo © 2025 Netflix / Message Pictures
In Brief:
Strained police encounters and profile of victim psychology are most effective. Blurrier on the bigger issues.
VOR:
③
Important. Still, revealing trove of body-cam footage is also a storytelling limit. Collective portrait and legal argument suffer as a result.
Grade:
B
Awards:
Sundance Film Festival
: Directing Award (U.S. Documentary)
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