“The Good Neighbor” (***1/2 out of four) was an absolutely riveting Hitchcockian suspense thriller about a journalist (Luke Kleintank) who meets a new neighbor (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) and go out for drinks and get into a hit-and-run accident in which a woman is killed; he is then assigned to cover this story and becomes deeply involved with her sister (Eloise Smyth) but this immediately plunges him into a whirpool of guilt, remorse, and deception and puts him at odds with his sociopathic neighbor who wants to kill and cover all tracks by any means necessary. Serpentine story unfolds with many haunting layers of character study and tragedy and holds you in its vicelike grip till its chilling ending. Exceptionally well-directed by Stephan Rick and given more charge by strong acting (especially Rhys-Meyers).