There is no shortage of impactful true crime documentaries available with a Netflix subscription, and The Perfect Neighbor has quickly risen to the top of that list. What starts out as a series of incidents where an elderly woman routinely calls the cops on neighborhood kids playing by her house, slowly divolves into a gut-wrenching American tragedy where no one is left unaffected. All of this, I should add, is told through body cam, cell phone, and interrogation room footage.
This choice by director Geeta Gandbhir not only makes The Perfect Neighbor one of the most noteworthy documentaries on the 2025 movie schedule, but also one of the best in recent memory. And this is no more true than it is in one shocking, and utterly gut-wrenching moment halfway through the new Netflix original.
