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

Saul Shlosberg

Neilesh Ambu

Jo Wallett

Liza Bracey

Brendan Houghton

Cathy Cosgrove

Ivana Primorac

Rebecca Gresham

Brendan Hessle

Mark Coulier

Natasha Klipp

Muffin Green

Moin Uddin

Martin Charles

Dan Crandon

Steven John Brown

Mark Clayton

Corey Gineris

James Summers

Emiliano Topai

Gillian Dodders

Max Hunt

Philip O'Connor

Lilly Blazewicz

Tasha Back

James Wichall

Jim Dowdall

Seva Solntsev

Grant Samson

Julian Spencer

Michael P. Catanzarite

Peter Keith

Seeta Lingam

Jef Groff

Nick Freemantle

Dayo James

Steven Hall

Niv Adiri

Terry Cade

Xavier Lake

Anton Simpson-Tidy

Jeremy Braben

Glenn Freemantle

Angela Leus

Robert Malone

Danny Freemantle

Emilie O'Connor

Donna Williams

Shaun Cobley

Warwick Drucker

Zoe Morgan

Charlie Rotheram

Tamsin Jeffrey

Laurence Love Greed

Morgan Swing

Esther Venanzi

Emily Bowen

Jill McCullough

Jannika Öberg

Jason Marshall

Jonathan Prime

Dickie Trant

Cat Ho

Sasha Gibson

Sally Hill

Richard Styles

Simon Hayes

Richard Curtis

John Lennon

Ringo Starr

Paul McCartney

George Harrison

Tim Bevan

Elo Soode

Danny Boyle

Jack Barth

Matthew James Wilkinson

Lorna Houlihan

James Wakefield

Bernard Bellew

Gail Stevens

Jon Harris

Christopher Wyatt

Lee Brazier

Patrick Rolfe

Eric Fellner

Christopher Ross

Brandie Reinhold

Nele Mertens

Sophie Ashworth

Nick Angel

Daniel Pemberton

Kirsten Lane

Glen Gathard

Angela Moneke

Comedy

Fantasy

Music

Romance

Yesterday

Working Title Films

United Kingdom

United States of America

SWITCH.

‘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

Head to https://www.maketheswitch.com.au/sff for more Sydney Film Festival reviews.

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