Film Review: ‘Yesterday’: Who Wouldn’t Want to Be a Beatle? Or All of Them?

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7/9/2019Updated: 7/9/2019

PG-13 | 1h 56min | Comedy, Fantasy, Music | 28 June 2019 (USA)

There’s a global power outage, enveloping the world in darkness, accompanied by that final, thundering chord from The Beatles song “A Day in the Life” (for which the boys from Liverpool apparently used—not one, but four—grand pianos).

Mark Jackson

Film Critic

Mark Jackson is the chief film critic for The Epoch Times. In addition to film, he enjoys martial arts, motorcycles, rock-climbing, qigong, and human rights activism. Jackson earned a bachelor's degree in philosophy from Williams College, followed by 20 years' experience as a New York professional actor. He narrated The Epoch Times audiobook "How the Specter of Communism is Ruling Our World," available on iTunes, Audible, and YouTube. Mark is a Rotten Tomatoes-approved film critic.

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