Review of Yesterday (2019) by Owen Gleiberman for Variety — 03 May 2019
In Yesterday, [Boyle and Curtis] reduce the Beatles to the ultimate product by declaring, at every turn, “These songs are transcendent!” And it’s the fact that they keep telling us, rather than showing us (i.
E., with musical sequences that earned their transcendence), that makes Yesterday, for all the timeless songs in it, a cut-and-dried, rotely whimsical, prefab experience.
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This review of Yesterday (2019) was written by Owen Gleiberman and published by Variety on 03 May 2019.
Yesterday has generally received positive reviews.
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