Netflix's ‘The Perfect Neighbor’ Is Hard to Watch

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The Perfect Neighbor is an Oscar contender hiding among the deluge of streaming true crime content. It landed on Netflix for its general release after a limited run (and taking home the Sundance 2025 U.S. Documentary Directing Award, and landing on the DOC NYC Short List).

It’s a documentary in the most basic sense of the word: primary documents (in this case, footage) woven into a narrative. Director Geeta Gandbhir builds the story through roughly 95% body cam and Ring cam footage, without narration. As far as I know, it’s the first of its kind. And given the story it’s telling, the uniquely intimate sense of witness—particularly from a police perspective—feels brutally poignant.

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