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The Perfect Neighbor

Play trailer Poster for The Perfect Neighbor R Oct 2025 1h 36m Documentary Crime Play Trailer Watchlist
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A seemingly minor neighborhood dispute in Florida escalates into deadly violence. Police bodycam footage and investigative interviews expose the consequences of Florida's "stand your ground" laws.
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As gripping as it is deeply unsettling, The Perfect Neighbor lays bare the systemic failures and the quiet terror embedded in American legal systems with surgical precision.

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Tim Cogshell FilmWeek (LAist) Nov 11
Extremely powerful and extremely important documentary filmmaking. Go to Full Review
Sam Adams Slate Nov 4
A chilling and provocative look at the limits of policing, particularly when the laws the police are called to enforce present more of a problem than a solution. Go to Full Review
Peter Travers The Travers Take Oct 31
3.5/4
Captured entirely from police cam footage, this Oscar-buzzed documentary about a white Florida woman who murders her Black neighbor indicts an entire society. It's also the scariest movie you’ll see this Halloween season. Go to Full Review
Robert Roten Laramie Movie Scope 1d
B+
Part of the reason that documentaries have more impact than many fictional films is because of their believability. Because of how this movie is put together from so much raw footage, it has a huge emotional impact. Go to Full Review
Aaron Neuwirth We Live Entertainment 5d
8/10
Fascinating and devastating in equal measures, not a great neighbor, but an excellent documentary. Go to Full Review
David Griffiths Subculture Entertainment Dec 7
4/5
A brilliant documentary. It has no agenda, takes no sides and instead does what a documentary should do and presents the facts to the audience as they play out. Go to Full Review
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Zachary S @sticc 22h The most useless, boring crime doc I've ever started to watch. See more Diane D. @Diane19809 1d Eye opening! A message that needs to be heard! See more @Ashley190 5d all the low ratings are from MAGA types (look at their other reviews), so that should tell you a lot about this. It's thoroughly eye opening but not particularly enjoyable to watch- more heartbreaking but sadly predictable. See more Troy R 5d It was interesting to have the genre of bodycam footage stories cross over into a movie format, though I don't think it was too special. Compared to some cases I have seen edited on youtube it was tough to hear some audio and the story wasn't super suspenseful like the movie wanted it to be. That being said I think it was unique to have the whole story told through the people involved and the ability to know everything that happened was real. Ending felt a little weird as they stated some statistics and then seemed to try to make the issue into a race thing, which it really didn't feel like it was. Even without having that the story is still important, but it kind of felt like the producers realized the story didn't have as much spice as they wanted. Also, hopefully the people in these videos will be paid in some way, but I wish the movie mentioned something like "Everyone involved was paid to attempt to heal the harm this incident caused." See more Charles E @Charicia 5d Just an astounding achievement in documentary filmmaking. To tell a story like this solely through police body cam footage and audio--no additional interviews, no narration, no "dramatic re-creations"--and to have it be so gripping, compelling and emotional from beginning to end--should be impossible, but Perfect Neighbor stands as a testament that it's not. Brilliant and awe-inspiring. See more Aaron S @AtotheJ Dec 16 Absolutely heartbreaking. All filmed through body cam footage. Definitely interesting to hear the police commentary caught on that footage! But ultimately it’s a heartbreaking story that had us all in tears for those kiddos and the neighbors who suffered at the hands of someone who should have never had access to a firearm. So, so, so sad. Can’t help but think about the children who will suffer for the rest of their lives because of this. See more Read all reviews
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Movie Info

Synopsis A seemingly minor neighborhood dispute in Florida escalates into deadly violence. Police bodycam footage and investigative interviews expose the consequences of Florida's "stand your ground" laws.
Director
Geeta Gandbhir
Producer
Nikon Kwantu, Geeta Gandbhir, Alisa Payne, Sam Bisbee
Distributor
Netflix
Production Co
Message Pictures
Rating
R (Language)
Genre
Documentary, Crime
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Oct 10, 2025, Limited
Release Date (Streaming)
Oct 17, 2025
Runtime
1h 36m
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