Himesh Patel

Lily James

Sophia Di Martino

Ellise Chappell

Meera Syal

Harry Michell

Vincent Franklin

Joel Fry

Michael Kiwanuka

Karma Sood

Gus Brown

Sanjeev Bhaskar

Karl Theobald

Alexander Arnold

Dominic Coleman

Ed Sheeran

Jane Seaborn

Nic Minns

Maryana Spivak

Justin Edwards

Kate McKinnon

Javone Prince

Camilla Rutherford

Sarah Lancashire

Rachael Elizabeth

Jimmy Gallagher

Jaimie Kollmer

Sophie Mensah

Helena Devereux

Julian Feria

Lamorne Morris

Craig Rowin

James Corden

Cristina Dohmen

Elizabeth Berrington

Clementine Webb

Diana Pauline

William McGeough

Díana Bermudez

Sunny Yeo

Charlie Hannah

Xav Clarke

Oliver Booker

Michele Stodart

Michael Jablonka

Steve Pringle

Lewis Wright

Alex Bonfanti

Ifeoluwa Ogunjobi

Camilla George

Hannah Mbuya

Richie Seivwright

Chilli-Rae McCormack

Lucie Arnoux

Jelly Cleaver

Daisy Chute

Sandra-Mae Luijkx

Robert Carlyle

David Lautman

K.C. Wolf

Hiten Patel

Brendan Houghton

Natasha Klipp

Moin Uddin

Mark Coulier

Muffin Green

Brendan Hessle

Niv Adiri

Xavier Lake

Warwick Drucker

Steven Hall

Dan Crandon

Seeta Lingam

Nick Freemantle

Dayo James

Anton Simpson-Tidy

Jeremy Braben

Liza Bracey

Ivana Primorac

Martin Charles

Rebecca Gresham

Cathy Cosgrove

Jo Wallett

Danny Freemantle

Shaun Cobley

Jason Marshall

Lilly Blazewicz

Grant Samson

Julian Spencer

Tasha Back

Jannika Öberg

Glenn Freemantle

Emilie O'Connor

James Wichall

Esther Venanzi

Sally Hill

Jef Groff

Robert Malone

Jim Dowdall

Donna Williams

Morgan Swing

James Summers

Emiliano Topai

Terry Cade

Michael P. Catanzarite

Angela Leus

Jill McCullough

Mark Clayton

Jonathan Prime

Emily Bowen

Philip O'Connor

Gillian Dodders

Seva Solntsev

Steven John Brown

Corey Gineris

Peter Keith

Laurence Love Greed

Cat Ho

Sasha Gibson

Dickie Trant

Charlie Rotheram

Max Hunt

Zoe Morgan

Tamsin Jeffrey

Richard Styles

Simon Hayes

Richard Curtis

Ringo Starr

Paul McCartney

John Lennon

George Harrison

Tim Bevan

Elo Soode

Danny Boyle

Jack Barth

James Wakefield

Lee Brazier

Lorna Houlihan

Bernard Bellew

Christopher Wyatt

Matthew James Wilkinson

Eric Fellner

Jon Harris

Gail Stevens

Patrick Rolfe

Christopher Ross

Nele Mertens

Brandie Reinhold

Sophie Ashworth

Nick Angel

Daniel Pemberton

Kirsten Lane

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Yesterday

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United States of America

English

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liverpool, england

music festival

united kingdom

rock concert

alternative reality

moral dilemma

dramatic

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‘Yesterday’ takes its genius idea and unfortunately turns it into a generic film. Both director Danny Boyle and writer Richard Curtis have proven their creativity before, but here it's just wasted along with everything else.
- Chris dos Santos

Read Chris' full article...
https://www.maketheswitch.com.au/article/review-yesterday-great-concept-disappointing-execution

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Peter McGinn

I really enjoyed this movie. Right out of the gate, you must accept that it is a fantasy rather than science-fiction, because the latter genre usually tries to give some sort of explanation for why something happens, but here we just take it as it is. 

The dialogue is mostly witty and fun, and the characters got my sympathy. I had a slight problem with the two lead characters having always been platonic, as it was never fully explained why that was. But I was able to put that aside. Plus I really liked seeing the third lead character, the Mini Cooper (okay, yes, I have owned one for nearly twenty years).

Part of the ending could be considered predictable, and part of it was, but another piece of the conclusion astonished me in its originality, so it worked for me. One interesting subplot revolved around a couple of people who shared the knowledge about the Beatles that drives the story, and I was surprised and pleased at how they resolved that subplot. 

And yes, to deal with the elephant in the room, most of the songs presented in the movie were better when the Beatles performed them, but isn't that the point? I had no problem setting that fact aside and enjoying this harmless and entertaining film. Oh, and I appreciate what a good sport Ed Sheeran is in this movie, allowing the lead character to more or less beat him in a songwriting contest (though of course Ed really won). In this movie, everybody wins (Well, except of course for the fictional Beatles, unless you can imagine they would prefer where the fantay lands them.)

CinemaSerf

Sorry - but I don't understand. How can you take quite an original idea - man gets hit by a bus and awakens to a parallel existence where only he remembers the Beatles - and turn it into this one-joke film? Himesh Patel, himself, is quite engaging but he has nowhere near enough to work with to stretch this out for two whole hours!! Lily James tries her best to assist but there's no getting away from a very weak screenplay. The soundtrack is superb but most of that was written elsewhere 50-odd years ago. There is a sort-of swipe at the modern day music business and at the industries that support "solo" artists, but any potential for a more satiric review of the business is lost in the banality of it. Pity!

Mariam

quite good. i love the beatles and this has been a movie ive been wanting to watch for a LOOONG time so seeing it on  Netflix, i was really happy, but it could've been _much_ better in my opinion

Yesterday( 2019)

Everyone in the world has forgotten The Beatles. Everyone except Jack…

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Written by SWITCH. on Mon Jun 17 2019

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