90
Metascore
7 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 100CineVueBen NicholsonCineVueBen NicholsonA highly original and utterly enthralling film that touches on staggeringly expansive themes - more typically expected in the work of master auteur and persistent award-winner Terrence Malick, than from animations.
- 100The New York TimesNeil GenzlingerThe New York TimesNeil GenzlingerConsidering that he’s a stick figure, Bill, the main character in It’s Such a Beautiful Day, sure does have a complex internal life. And this animated film by Don Hertzfeldt does an amazing job of making you feel it, in all its sadness, terror and transcendence.
- 100Village VoiceSimon AbramsVillage VoiceSimon AbramsWarped keyhole-size images stack atop one another in a Frankenstein-ian collage that evokes the films of Terrence Malick, David Lynch, Stan Brakhage, and Bruce Conner. Seeing "the years [slip] out of [Bill's] head" in this 71-minute compendium is nothing short of revelatory.
- 90VarietyPeter DebrugeVarietyPeter DebrugeHad James Thurber worked in animation, the waggish result might look and sound a bit like It’s Such a Beautiful Day, indie cartoonist Don Hertzfeldt’s alternately poignant and absurdist triptych.
- 80Total FilmPaul BradshawTotal FilmPaul BradshawAn existential flipbook and a heartbreaking black joke: stickmen have never looked so alive.
- 80The GuardianMike McCahillThe GuardianMike McCahillFunny, oddly affecting and cherishably personal.
- 75Slant MagazineJoseph Jon LanthierSlant MagazineJoseph Jon LanthierDespite all this macabre torment, It's Such a Beautiful Day involves a lot of sweet, plucky humor that represents a discreet softening of the angry sarcasm for which Hertzfeldt has become known.