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A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood

2019

Marielle Heller

Matthew Rhys, Tom Hanks, Chris Cooper, Susan Kelechi Watson ...

6.0

5,169

Drama The story of Fred Rogers, the honored host and creator of the popular children's television program, "MisteRogers' Neighborhood" (1968).

	Author	Review
United States	Owen Gleiberman Variety	"Hanks isn’t just good — he’s transporting. (...) 'A Beautiful Day' is a soft-hearted fable that works on you in an enchanting way."	POS
United States	Eric Kohn IndieWire	"[Heller] excels at pulling heartstrings from sturdy foundations, injecting smart and insightful details into material that could easily default to sentimentality"	POS
United Kingdom	Wendy Ide Screendaily	"It’s a group therapy session of a movie which delivers its folksy wisdom with a song and a smile."	POS
United States	Ella Kemp The Playlist	"This might be just one little movie, and one of so many reviews – but people like Mister Rogers and Marielle Heller exist to make life feel like you’re part of something so much bigger"	POS
United States	Todd McCarthy The Hollywood Reporter	"Hanks is perfect in the part (...) Heller's film itself, however, is a rather more modest achievement, sympathetic and yet entirely predictable"	NEU
United States	Steve Pond The Wrap	"[It] finds a gentle state of grace and shows the courage and smarts to stay in that zone, never rushing things or playing for drama."	POS
United Kingdom	Benjamin Lee The Guardian	"Rogers always respected his audience, no matter the age, and Heller follows suit, avoiding the sugary overkill so many other directors would have embraced.(…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Christopher Schobert The Film Stage	"A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood solidifies Marielle Heller’s spot on the list of the most consistent filmmakers working today (...).She has directed one of the year’s most entertaining films"	POS
United States	Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"Hanks and Heller are purveyors of a delicate magic that is damn near irresistible (...) 'A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood' is a movie that speaks from the heart. Let it in (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	A. O. Scott The New York Times	"[It] celebrates the virtues of patient listening, gentleness and the honest expression of feelings."	POS
United States	Joshua Rothkopf Time Out	"Tom Hanks is a beaming, slightly cryptic Fred Rogers in a movie that's more about a journalist in need of a hug (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	NEU
Canada	Barry Hertz The Globe and Mail	"An admirably quiet, challenging and sporadically strange meditation on fathers, sons and the poison that is suppressing your feelings (...) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Justin Chang Los Angeles Times	"'A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood' doesn’t just pay lip service to its subject; in the modesty of its form and the gentleness of its spirit, it seeks to distill and embody his very philosophy of life."	POS
United States	Brian Tallerico rogerebert.com	"I never felt like 'A Beautiful Day' was cheap, in part because of how tenderly and seriously Heller tells the story. This is a kind film"	POS
United Kingdom	Robbie Collin Telegraph	"Heller has a flair for making this kind of potentially slight and/or formulaic material defy every last rule and expectation of the biopic form (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United Kingdom	Clarisse Loughrey The Independent	"Heller finds the gentlest of ways to deliver an uncompromising message (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United Kingdom	Gabriella Geisinger Digital Spy	"Even for those who didn't grow up curled into the corner of their sofa watching the TV flicker to life and belting out its theme song, 'A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood' will make you feel (…) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United Kingdom	Chris Hunneysett Mirror	"Tom Hanks is at his most disarming and subtle as a real-life US TV icon in this soulful, therapeutic and irresistible family drama (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
Ireland	Donald Clarke Irish Times	"This tribute feels plausible. It feels touching. But it also feels a bit otherworldly. All those adjectives are appropriate for another tremendous film from one of our era’s great young directors (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
Ireland	Brian Lloyd entertainment.ie	"[The script] is able to adapt and balance together telling a convincing story with a meaningful attempt to give context to a person's life (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
Ireland	Paul Whitington Irish Independent	"It's a lovely film, made in the beautiful, gentle spirit of Fred Rogers' TV show (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
Ireland	Carole Coleman RTÉ	"It's a timely reminder that young children need someone to guide them gently through life's ups and downs (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS

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