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

What if, sometime between yesterday and today, the electricity were to suddenly go out all around when the world, and when it comes back, practically all human memory of the Beatles is suddenly erased? That’s the premise of Danny Boyle’s hardworking charmer Yesterday, a fantasy that works well enough as a Beatles love letter but falls short in the love-story department.

What if, sometime between yesterday and today, the electricity were to suddenly go out all around when the world, and when it comes back, practically all human memory of the Beatles is suddenly erased? That’s the premise of Danny Boyle’s hardworking charmer Yesterday, a fantasy that works well enough as a Beatles love letter but falls short in the love-story department.