
Reviews — Yesterday
Audience write-ups from TMDB
Mariam
I thought it was pretty good. Being a Beatles fan, I’d wanted to see this film for what felt like forever, and I was pleased to find it available on Netflix; however, I feel that it had the potential to be significantly improved.
CinemaSerf
It's baffling how a premise as inventive as a man struck by a bus who finds himself in an alternate reality where he alone recalls the Beatles could result in such a limited movie experience. Himesh Patel delivers an appealing performance, but even his talents are insufficient to sustain a film of this length. Lily James does what she can to help, yet the fundamental problem remains: a severely flawed script. The mus…
Peter McGinn
I found myself thoroughly enjoying this film. From the very beginning, it’s important to understand that it operates as a fantasy rather than science-fiction; typically, science-fiction attempts to provide reasons behind events, but here we simply accept things as they are. The conversations were largely clever and amusing, and I felt empathy for the characters. I did have a minor reservation regarding the establi…
SWITCH.
The concept behind ‘Yesterday’ is brilliant, but the film itself ends up feeling disappointingly commonplace. It's a shame because both Danny Boyle and Richard Curtis have demonstrated their imaginative abilities in the past; here, that potential simply goes to waste, along with so much more.

