Filmmaker Geeta Gandbhir’s new Netflix true crime documentary film “The Perfect Neighbor” released on Netflix on Friday and has reportedly topped the streamer’s global charts this weekend – coming in ahead of “KPop Demon Hunters” and “The Woman in Cabin 10”.
The film won a directing award at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, where it landed rave reviews – the film is currently sitting at 100% on Rotten Tomatoes and 85/100 on Metacritic. Netflix snapped it up for $5 million at the time and launched it this past Friday.
Within 24 hours, it had reached the #3 spot on the global charts and continued rising. Proper viewership numbers are expected in the coming days when Netflix updates its charts.
The film is assembled almost entirely through police bodycam footage and CCTV footage and deals with the tragic 2023 killing in Florida of Ajike ‘AJ’ Owens, a mother of four who was shot by her neighbor Susan Lorincz.
The issues began as simple neighbourhood complaints about kids playing on ‘private property’, but things soon spiralled into a major confrontation.
The doc doesn’t use dramatic reenactments, narration or talking heads weighing in – rather, it lets the footage speak for itself.
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