20 Best Netflix 2017 Original Movies - Ranked
13. Casting JonBenet
A disturbing yet totally transfixing documentary about the still-cloudy circumstances surrounding the death of six-year-old JonBenét Ramsey back in 1996, Casting JonBenet takes the unique meta approach to its focal subjects that pays off splendidly.
The central conceit sees filmmaker Kitty Green auditioning local actors to play the various "characters" from the real-life tragedy, even JonBenet herself, while probing their own insights and beliefs about what happened to the young girl.
It sounds like a gimmick, and it basically is, but Green doesn't use it to exploit the child's death, but rather demonstrates a desperate desire to know more about what happened.
It's beautifully shot and the various participants offer beguiling perspectives, even if so much of the case still unavoidably remains up in the air.