A film about waiting for death and embracing the life that's left, even though we don't entirely understand it. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 9, 2023

An outstanding work of creativity... you absolutely must make time to see it.

| Jul 7, 2021

[Don Hertzfeltd] does respect his viewers and he tries to give them something that'll make them think.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Feb 13, 2019

An authentic depiction of depression, mental illness, and a poetic meditation on mankind's relationship with the universe.

| Oct 20, 2018

Juxtaposed against so many potential futures, the present moment seems perishable and trivial indeed. If such truisms are horrifying, however, they can also be oddly, paradoxically reassuring.

| Mar 6, 2018

There is no "objective" perspective. What there is, surprisingly, is a form of grace or transcendence or epiphany or whatever you choose to call it.

| Mar 6, 2018

Hertzfeldt's work is sometimes elusive in its simplicity, but it can be profound as well; with his humor, darkness, philosophical yearning, and insistence on drawing every line himself, he may be the only legitimate successor to Charles M. Schulz.

| Mar 6, 2018

The feature built out of those three parts thus lacks anything "new"; but the experience of watching them all in one smooth stream is nothing shy of a revelation.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Mar 6, 2018

It's devastating stuff - no less than a stick figure "Tree of Life" - and it confirms that Hertzfeldt has become "mature" without sacrificing any of his considerable gifts.

| Mar 6, 2018

It is beautiful, funny, sad, and imparts the kind of wisdom on life and love that is at once simple and profound.

| Mar 6, 2018

This isn't adult-friendly - it is decidedly adult-oriented - but still not the type of things that most adults would want to see. It's a profound, beautiful statement on mortality, and it is not friendly.

| Mar 6, 2018

There aren't many films where the characters and philosophical ideas stay with you for months afterward, but this is one of them.

| Mar 6, 2018

And though the animation, sound, and special effects were all done by one man slaving away at his home, It's Such a Beautiful Day is realized with remarkable inventiveness and technical sophistication.

| Mar 6, 2018

A truly moving meditation on identity, family and (as the title of his previous short immodestly put it) the meaning of life, Hertzfeldt's magnum opus is more cosmically satisfying than The Tree of Life.

| Mar 6, 2018

An inventive animated masterpiece that will hopefully reach a wider audience that it it can affect and inspire.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jan 22, 2018

Alternately poignant and absurdist.

| Jan 22, 2018

Call the finale Kubrickian or Malickian, but for my money Hertzfeldt's sense of humour gets him further than either.

| Jan 22, 2018

The film could have devolved into another variation of Godard's galaxy in a coffee cup, but It's Such a Beautiful Day retains the biting humor and fecund observation of the everyday that allows it to stretch as far into the domestic/cosmic as it can.

| Jan 9, 2018

By the time the movie reaches its metaphysical end, you will feel you've seen something profound, perhaps even life-changing.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Oct 24, 2014

There's no denying that Hertzfeldt has a voice and a vision, or that It's Such a Beautiful Day is unique. I think William Fisher, wherever he may be, would appreciate it greatly.

| Jun 3, 2013