A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood

critic Reviews

, 95% Certified Fresh Tomatometer Score
  • Much like the beloved TV personality that inspired it, A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood offers a powerfully affecting message about acceptance and understanding.
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    Victoria LuxfordBBC.com
    Tom Hanks is the perfect choice for this (role), someone we all associate with the same warmth and affection as Rogers. A very uplifting film, that gives you a bit of faith in just how good people can be.
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    Wenlei MaNews.com.au
    A Beautiful Day in the Neighbourhood is like an anti-Joker in how it confronts the mental health challenges of its main character. Instead of nihilism, hopelessness and violence, this film opts for hope.
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    Mark KermodeKermode & Mayo's Film Review
    Beautifully set-up...a really strange, really interesting, really oddly-uplifting film...
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    Larushka Ivan-ZadehMetro Newspaper (UK)
    Another superbly tuned project by director Marielle Heller, this miraculously swerves the schmaltz to create something quietly profound and spiritual. A beautiful day indeed.
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    Simran HansObserver (UK)
    Subtle, melancholy and deeply felt in its sincerity.
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    Charlotte O'SullivanLondon Evening Standard
    What a difference a day makes, when it's a day as beautiful as this.
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    Savina PetkovaA Good Movie To Watch
    A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood might be one of the most profound films about father-son relationships ever made.
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    Vadim RizovFilmmaker Magazine
    Beautiful Day is shockingly insistent on the importance of forced reconciliation at all costs, which I find offensive...
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    M.N. MillerReady Steady Cut
    I had a harder time warming up to A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood than my frozen holiday turkey. It’s an odd piece that’s laudable, but humdrum.
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    Keith GarlingtonKeith & the Movies
    (Heller) has so many interesting touches (I absolutely love how she uses miniatures) and approaches the story with just the right sensibility. And in the end it’s kindness, hope, and compassion that wins the day.
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