Yesterday

A hopeless songwriter wakes up to find he’s the only person who can remember the Fab Four’s hits in a wacky, winning comedy directed by Danny Boyle

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In director Danny Boyle’s clever new comedy, “Yesterday,” that famous hoax is actually sorta true. A man wakes up after a bike accident during a blackout to discover a world where all submarines are gray, blackbirds sing in the afternoon and all you need is cash — The Beatles never happened.

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Yesterday is a sweet Beatles musical, but the whimsy turns sour

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‘Yesterday’: Danny Boyle Ignores John Lennon, Leans Into Paul McCartney-Ism To Preserve Global Joy

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Endearing, imperfect 'Yesterday' imagines a world without The Beatles

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While not a great movie, Yesterday offers simple delights as a globe-trotting comedy that is not without the occasional big laughs and gentle charm.

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Danny Boyle stops short of making a musical out of the Beatles songbook in Yesterday

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Danny Boyle’s romcom imagines a history without the Fab Four — and an aspiring songwriter who decides to fill in the gap

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Eventually — perhaps inevitably — Yesterday overplays its hand, with Curtis seemingly at a loss for how to resolve a story that, after its initial premise has been mined for maximum humor and poignancy, has very few places to go.

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Everything in the film is high: high concept, high pressure, high stakes and it often feels bizarrely forced. Nothing makes any sense and is never explained.

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The film gets caught up in the relationship between Jack and Ellie, which is not all that interesting, pieced together with cliches from other films.

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Danny Boyle and Richard Curtis invite you to imagine there’s no Beatles.

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A film imagines a world almost entirely wiped of the British band’s catalog, but the end result is little more than a routine romantic comedy.

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It’s a charming comedy that devolves into a limp romance

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Yesterday Is a Rom-Com That’s Perfectly Charming If You Don’t Look Too Closely

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Richard Curtis’ fantasia about a world where only one man remembers the Fab Four’s songs is far too cutesy and lacks a hook

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Danny Boyle directs a Richard Curtis script about a songwriter who wakes up in a Beatles-free world and gets to pretend he wrote their songs.

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Danny Boyle's musical fairy tale about a world without the Beatles, in which an indie rocker brings them back, is really a fantasy of rebooting the Beatles. It's cute and watchable, but it lacks the magic of discovery.

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The fanciful conceit in Yesterday is much like a struggling artist’s what-if daydream, the one in which they finally rouse an elusive muse to inspire them to greatness.

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