Rating: R | Runtime: 96 minutes
Release Date: October 10th, 2025 (USA)
Studio: Netflix
Director(s): Geeta Gandbhir

I would never ever.

The most telling part of Geeta Gandbhir’s The Perfect Neighbor is that it’s told almost completely via police cam footage. Through everything that occurred—and all of it pitted an entire community with corroborating stories against one woman dead-set on saying her version was the truth—Susan Lorincz never once set-up a security camera. Why? Because she wasn’t actually scared? Maybe. I’d wager, however, that it was so she couldn’t incriminate herself.

All that police cam footage also proves the most damning part of the film since it reveals how often officers were dispatched to deal with the same conflict over multiple years. They went so often that they started commiserating with the parents about Susan being crazy. They went so often that they knew exactly where she lived. And there’s zero chance they didn’t know she owned a gun. Where’s the psychiatric hold? How about abuse of emergency services?

This is a well-told narrative “objectively” edited from first-hand documentation of an escalating situation with all the earmarks of ending in tragedy. Its “look at the Marion County police’s job well done” eventually plays like copaganda on its road to justice, but the path to manslaughter remains critical. Because that “job” is proven yet again to be more about protecting property than saving lives via a refusal to believe white women are homicidal until after they commit homicide.

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(Center) Susan Lorincz in THE PERFECT NEIGHBOR; courtesy of Netflix.