A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood

audience Reviews

, 92% Audience Score
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    A feel-gooder that does not skip heartbreak, it even teaches you how to feel good later.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    Not what I thought it would be. Beautiful movie about a wonderful man, who changed so many lives through his work, words, and actions. Focus was on just one of the people whose life was touched by Mister Rogers.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    Wonderful film! The depiction of Mr. Rogers here is really impactful in the story that is told.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    Best movie ever made in 2019 and Tom Hanks was amazing as Mr. Rogers.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    A beautiful mix of nostalgia and engaging story. Tom Hanks shines as Mister Rogers. A reminder of all the important things we learned as kids that we might have forgotten along the way.
  • Rating: 2 out of 5 stars
    Well, this review isn't going to make me very popular, and I feel like a schmuck already, but not only did I not enjoy this feel-good movie with a 96% positive rating on Rotten Tomatoes, I am coming very close to calling it an outright bad film. Virtually nothing works here for me. I feel none of Mr. Rogers' spirit in Hanks performance - it came across to me as middle-aged Forrest Gump, sometimes like an SNL impersonation. Rhys fares better, but I did not buy his character arc. The film is awkwardly constructed and badly edited - certain scenes seem to last forever whereas others feel choppy and incomplete. The movie was obviously made with love, but I've said it a thousand times - I'm not reviewing the intentions of the moviemakers but the end result. I'm not sure if I'm more shocked that I didn't like it as much as I did or that most of the world likes it as much as they do. No lump in my throat, no tear in my eye, no momentary goosebumps... this movie left me cold. And I honestly couldn't be more surprised. (Keep your hate mail civil and don't get personal!!)
  • Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
    Heller finds ways to make this slightly unconventional even if the themes become muddled.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    If you watched Mr. Rogers when he was on the air, this will be worth watching not only on a nostalgia level, but will likely be appreciating what he did and who he was to a greater degree than ever before. If you didn't know of the show or Fred, it may not be quite a captivating movie... but if you are an adult, you very likely fit into the demographic of being pretty familiar with this man. Probably a 4 star movie if you didn't know the show or the man, but a 5 if you did. You may just come away realizing how much greater of an effect he made on society as a whole, but you personally... even if you never realized it previously.
  • Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
    A movie that captures what made the TV show appealing, A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood is an emotional, dramatic, and entertaining movie with good acting and a good lesson.
  • Rating: 0.5 out of 5 stars
    Embarrassing and misleading advertising. This had very little to do with Mr. Rogers. I came into this thinking that it would be like a Mr. Rogers episode but as a movie. But no, it's just a guy interviewing him. For shame. Why make a movie about Mr. Rogers when it's not even about Mr. Rogers?