A Beautiful Day in the Neighbourhood

A zen parable about finding emotional stability through the story of an investigative journalist assigned to write about a beloved children's entertainer, this uses the device to ensure anything that could possibly be irritating or feel disingenuous about Mr. Rogers is immediately disarmed by seeing him through the eyes of someone very disenchanted. There's a deliberate stylalisation all the way through that helps, and I do think Matthew Rhys leads the film quite solidly as the viewpoint character (Hanks uses his "everybody's dad" air to good effect in the role, though dammit I wish that the script had avoided him using the word "Toy" - it's so associated with Woody that it can't help throw me out for a coupla seconds). And Heller really knows how to connect with damaged broken protagonists. Well worth seeing.