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By Jim Schembri (1,298) for 3AW (1,025) on 17 Oct 2016

Outstanding, engrossing documentary about The Beatles' assault on the American market in the early 1960s and the change it wrought upon the…

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By Kate Muir (612) for Times (UK) (2,458) on 09 Oct 2016

The material is uncontroversial to say the least, but hugely enjoyable with some remastered live performances that were previously drowned…

Review of The Beatles: Eight Days a Week - The Touring Years (2016)

By Richard James Havis (225) for South China Morning Post (665) on 06 Oct 2016

Beatles fans are in for an enjoyable, if unenlightening, viewing experience, while those who don't know much about them will find it a Fab Four 101…

Review of The Beatles: Eight Days a Week - The Touring Years (2016)

By Sean Axmaker (1,564) for Seanax.com (387) on 05 Oct 2016

It's also about something that most documentaries miss: the brotherhood of four Liverpool lads who pulled together because there was no one…

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By Conor Dowling (3) for Film Ireland Magazine (354) on 04 Oct 2016

I would highly recommend this film for Beatles aficionados and rookies alike…

Review of The Beatles: Eight Days a Week - The Touring Years (2016)

By Susan G. Cole (137) for NOW Toronto (1,621) on 04 Oct 2016

Will the documentary play to those who didn't grow up with the Beatles? My guess is that it doesn't really matter…

Review of The Beatles: Eight Days a Week - The Touring Years (2016)

By Louise Keller (804) for Urban Cinefile (2,850) on 02 Oct 2016

I tapped my toes throughout Ron Howard's fabulous documentary that gives a real sense of the time, the Beatles' talent and the Beatle-mania…

Review of The Beatles: Eight Days a Week - The Touring Years (2016)

By Jason Bailey (832) for Flavorwire (598) on 01 Oct 2016

If you're a Beatles fan - and that's who a movie like this is for - you've already seen most of this stuff, and diehards (and I speak as one…

Review of The Beatles: Eight Days a Week - The Touring Years (2016)

By Stephen Silver (684) for EntertainmentTell (372) on 26 Sep 2016

Not a whole lot new or illuminating, but on the other hand it's nearly two hours of Beatles music and concert footage (Splice Today)…

Review of The Beatles: Eight Days a Week - The Touring Years (2016)

By Tom Shone (158) for Newsweek (1,534) on 21 Sep 2016

[Howard seems] as if he were intent on making a film for anyone who tuned in to The Ed Sullivan Show in 1964, fell in love with the four adorable…

Review of The Beatles: Eight Days a Week - The Touring Years (2016)

By Sandra Hall (505) for Sydney Morning Herald (1,256) on 20 Sep 2016

For those of us who can remember, it's a deliriously evocative nostalgia trip, as well as a timely reminder of more spontaneous times…

Review of The Beatles: Eight Days a Week - The Touring Years (2016)

By Bonnie Stiernberg (3) for Paste Magazine (2,906) on 20 Sep 2016

While it certainly doesn't break any new ground, it's a fun retelling of the band's meteoric rise…

Review of The Beatles: Eight Days a Week - The Touring Years (2016)

By Mike Scott (1,178) for Times-Picayune (642) on 20 Sep 2016

The result is the kind of movie that can be counted on to put a smile on the face of even the casual Beatles fan. In other words: a good laugh…

Review of The Beatles: Eight Days a Week - The Touring Years (2016)

By Jason Best (961) for Movie Talk (957) on 20 Sep 2016

Eight Days a Week captures John, Paul, George and Ringo at their youthful charismatic peak: brimming with wit in their encounters with the…

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By Roger Moore (6,008) for Movie Nation (3,875) on 20 Sep 2016

No new revelations, but a nice historic overview with a few wonderful, rarely-seen clips that make it worth your while…

Review of The Beatles: Eight Days a Week - The Touring Years (2016)

By Cj Johnson (473) for ABC Radio (Australia) (677) on 19 Sep 2016

There is little here that was not done better in The Beatles Anthology (1995)…

Review of The Beatles: Eight Days a Week - The Touring Years (2016)

By Paul Whitington (413) for Irish Independent (461) on 18 Sep 2016

Howard's film unearths startling footage of them performing, and fades out the awful screaming so you can actually hear them play…

Review of The Beatles: Eight Days a Week - The Touring Years (2016)

By Anthony Lane (1,079) for New Yorker (1,403) on 18 Sep 2016

As “Eight Days a Week” springs from color to black-and-white, and as frenzied action is intercut with stills, we get a delicious sense…

Review of The Beatles: Eight Days a Week - The Touring Years (2016)

By Wendy Ide (1,500) for Observer (UK) (2,398) on 17 Sep 2016

A triumph of deft editing and extraordinary access, this is likely to be the most important music documentary of the year…

Review of The Beatles: Eight Days a Week - The Touring Years (2016)

By Tony Medley (1,109) for Tolucan Times (639) on 17 Sep 2016

one of the most enjoyable movies of the year...filled with wonderful music and fascinating interviews with all The Beatles and others...shows…

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