A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood
2019, drama, history
109 minutes
An award-winning cynical journalist, Lloyd Vogel, begrudgingly accepts an assignment to write an Esquire profile piece on the beloved television icon Fred Rogers. After his encounter with Rogers, Vogel's perspective on life is transformed.
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10
2019-11-22
While the ending is coming at you like a trolley on a predictable track, the emotion isn’t sucked out of the payoff. It’s not an easy thing to accomplish as a filmmaker, where the audience can pretty much predict what is going to happen at the end, but how the story is told is what makes it such a fine film. Read more
9.0
2019-12-02
While it may not cause you to relive your childhood, A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood will still kick up some familiar feelings. Read more
8.8
David McGinnis of Fellowship of the Screen
2019-11-29
It’s a lovely, restrained performance from the former Americans star; he balances Hanks’s otherworldly, weaponized decency without bluster or artifice.
8.3
2019-12-30
With talented actors giving great performances and a VERY gifted director doing her thing you sort of like it for those reasons. Oh…Tom Hanks? He’s incredible here. Read more
8.0
2020-01-29
While entertaining in its own right, it is hard to watch A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood without reflecting on the erosion of human values in today’s world. That’s the whole point of the film. Read more
8.0
2020-01-24
A remarkable oddity of a biopic, whose somewhat despondent undercurrent is ultimately swallowed whole by the irrepressible optimism of Tom Hanks’ Mr. Rogers. Read more
8.0
2019-11-22
Hanks doesn’t love Fred Rogers as much as he entirely accepts him, and that’s the magic of this performance. Read more
8.0
2019-09-12
Tom Hanks as Fred Rogers is all that you will need to witness the most authentic portrayal of one of the kindest human beings. Read more
7.5
2019-11-22
A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood is a biopic that tows the line between the conventional and the unique. It hits the expected emotional appeals where it counts without being cloying. Read more
7.0
2020-01-26
Beautiful Day’s story and moral messages may not be the most groundbreaking, but it’s a film that seldom takes a wrong step. Moreover, its positive energy is a welcome ingredient to popular culture, which could always use a few more personalities like Mr Rogers. Read more
7.0
2019-12-12
I enjoyed this movie, primarily in watching the master Hanks at work. The overall pacing for me though was somewhat off. But I can’t be overly critical of such a warm-hearted movie. Read more
7.0
2019-11-22
A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood is a touching tale of love and forgiveness, bolstered by Hanks' impressive turn as Rogers. Read more
6.0
2019-12-18
Heller brings intense close-ups into her attentive filmmaking methods, delivering a heart-rendering tribute to a man of generosity that, although singular, struggles with a somewhat overempathetic posture varnished with a beatific gloss. Sometimes flowing like a dream, the film is perhaps too ambitious in its aims, sermonizing more than harmonizing. It’s worth seeing for the positive messages and Hanks' notable performance. Read more
4.0
2019-12-15
Lloyd’s story is too plain and unaffecting to measure up to what could have been an insightful, emotional journey chronicling one of television’s most revered and respected legends. Read more
In other languages
8.0
2020-07-17
A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood is een oprecht en sterk geacteerd drama waarin kenmerkende waarden van Rogers gevierd worden. Read more
8.0
2020-06-05
A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood zuigt je op en houdt je aandacht vast tot het eind. En dan die sublieme slotscène achter de piano; dat is finesse. Read more
8.0
2020-05-03
Met zijn veelzeggende lichaamstaal en zoetgevooisde stemgeluid is hij zoveel meer dan een typetje dat enkel de trui en wenkbrauwen van Mister Rogers draagt. Read more
7.0
2020-05-20
A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood is rustgevend, kalm en bevat een mooie boodschap over het beste in jezelf en andere zien te vinden en elkaar te steunen. Read more
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