Won't You Be My Neighbor?

Orchestrating the life of one of entertainment’s purest beings, Won’t You Be My Neighbor? is as delightful, nurturing and inviting as the series and the world its subject materi...

The Mr. Rogers doc Won't You Be My Neighbor? is the film we need right now

It is that emphasis — the earnest, critical attention to the public Mister Rogers and his legacy — that makes Won’t You Be My Neighbor? feel like such a gift.

The film evokes a range of emotions befitting a childhood lesson on feelings, from sadness about the Challenger accident to anger at a Fox News report snidely blaming Rogers for...

The Mr. Rogers documentary Won’t You Be My Neighbor? is a tearjerker with a purpose

Without undue fawning, Neville’s moving portrait does a lovely job of presenting Rogers as two people, the public figure and the private one, sharing the same closet full of zip...

“Won’t You Be My Neighbor?” presents the history of Fred McFeely Rogers, Presbyterian minister, children’s advocate and the most beloved Republican since Abe Lincoln.

Oscar-winning filmmaker Morgan Neville's documentary focuses on TV icon Fred Rogers

Morgan Neville's look at Mr. Rogers' worldview and legacy is full of lovely 'Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood' clips and Fred Rogers' own words.

Won’t You Be My Neighbor? presents Rogers as a complex, fallible, often very funny human who had self-doubts like anybody else, beautifully expressed in a series of animated int...

“Won’t You Be My Neighbor?” and Mister Rogers Insist Humanity Can Be Better Than This

Of course, Won’t You Be My Neighbor? is at its core a crowd-pleaser, so every unflattering fact unearthed about Rogers is offset by a dozen glowing ones, including Clemmons prai...

Loafers off, cardigan on, Mister Rogers returns in a gentle documentary for adults who need a hug.

But Won’t You Be My Neighbor? is only interested in this insofar as it can support the film’s assertion as to how amazing Fred Rogers was.