'A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood' review: Tom Hanks is great, but...
by Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune
Nov 18, 2019
3 minutes
"A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood" is not primarily about Fred Rogers, or "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood," and it isn't a traditional biopic, not even a traditional two-headed biopic. You should know these things going into this eccentric, often moving third feature from director Marielle Heller, whose previous films - "The Diary of a Teenage Girl" (2015) and "Can You Ever Forgive Me?" (2018) - were seriously wonderful. This one's more of a ruminative mixed bag worth seeing, and debating.
It focuses on the moral character development of a cynical magazine writer,
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