The Perfect Neighbor
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A minor disagreement between neighbors in Florida takes a lethal turn, with police body camera footage and interviews probing the aftermath of the state's controversial "stand your ground" laws.
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- Susan Lorincz
- Ajike Owens
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- Oct 17, 2025
“Are you hurt?” “No, but my heart is broken”
AbigailOct 17, 2025that letter has to be the worst letter in the history of letters. even the detective felt disgusted reading it out loud.
dhanushOct 14, 2025Being afraid does not make a person right. This woman repeatedly insists that she fears for her life, that she only responds from a place of deep, all-consuming terror, and that somehow this feeling is meant to justify what anyone else could see as completely unreasonable…
Jacob - Oct 18, 2025
25 years is not enough the people miss public executions
joj66Oct 23, 2025Three immediate thoughts. 1) Those poor boys. 2) Fascinated by the construction of this film. It is not dissimilar to a magazine feature in that it is a product of the kinds of materials used in investigative journalism: interviews, transcripts and most importantly…
Jamelle BouieJan 30, 2025It’s been days since I watched “The Perfect Neighbor.” My anger has not dissipated.
Robert Daniels - Oct 13, 2025
the cops were far too patient with this racist demon
Oscar Loser Saoirse RonanOct 15, 2025There’s a sequence in this doc where we’re inserted, via police body cams and ring cameras, into the lives of a family - of four children - on the most devastating night of their entire existence. It feels so intrusive and heartbreakingly rendered by the cold passive…
Joshua DysartOct 19, 2025the complete absence of remorse says all that needs to be said about her motives
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- J lovedThe Perfect Neighbor
I don’t think I’ve ever cried this hard watching something. Like legitimately cried to the point that it gave me a headache. How can you not when you’re seeing a little boy screaming that someone shot his mother? When he says he’s not hurt but his heart is broken. These kids clinging onto the hope…
Kiersten Lewis lovedThe Perfect NeighborMy heart breaks for those kids. Like the pastor said towards the end that the mom was standing up for her kids, I hope those kids know it’s not their fault and that she was fighting for them and that the are able to grow up and see just how much she loves them. Literally such a heartbreaking…
pia likedThe Perfect NeighborVery sad. Susan almost had me at the beginning. Sometimes kids are annoying af and will absolutely taunt people, especially if they are being a Karen. My thoughts quickly changed after the shooting. She was most definitely angry, not fearful. Glad she’s gonna die in prison.
- Natalie Shaw likedThe Perfect Neighbor
such a sad story, my heart breaks for her kids. rest in peace Ajike. 🤍 that woman deserves to rot in jail. her actions throughout this entire documentary make me sick. letting racism and hatred blind her to the point of murder. and don’t get me started on trying to play the victim over kids…
Twilighter2007 is "meh" onThe Perfect Neighborthat woman was not a perfect neighbor, she was a neighbor from hell who was racist and hated children. makes no sense why she'd move into a neighborhood predominantly black full of people with children...she is a despicable human being
Mims lovedThe Perfect Neighbor“Are you hurt?” “No… but my heart is broken” SOBBING. This is such a tragedy. Such a heart breaking story. Those kids will always grow up without their mom, who was just trying to protect them. Her jail time will never be enough.
- brooke likedThe Perfect Neighbor
this is a heartbreaking story that woman deserves to rot for what she did
Samantha Giraldo lovedThe Perfect NeighborI liked how it was a completely unbiased documentary. Hard watch. Don't watch if you are having a tough day. It will make it so much worse.
bails is "meh" onThe Perfect Neighborshe should have went to jail immediately tbh
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Metacritic
Oct 20, 2025
The documentary’s damning look at stand-your-ground laws and the ineffectiveness of police even when they’re doing everything “right” (because the body-cam footage that makes up this film wouldn’t exist if they thought they were doing something “wrong”) is awful and thorough, avoiding cliché through a devotion to fisheye footage. Its upsetting, explicit-bordering-on-exploitative access drives its points into the pit of your stomach.
Jacob Oller
The A.V. Club
Oct 10, 2025
While The Perfect Neighbor is, on the most visceral level, a documentary horror film built with police footage, it also reveals how a violent tragedy can be unwittingly manifested by unchecked grievance and a law that weaponizes white fear more than it guards anyone’s peace.
Robert Abele
Los Angeles Times
Oct 9, 2025
A very sombre picture of American crime and punishment.
Peter Bradshaw
The Guardian
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