That Lester and the Beatles got away with the irreverent and superb Hard Day's Night is, by today's standards, a miracle.
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10/15/03
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Reviews Counted:71
Fresh:71
Rotten:0
Average Rating:8.2/10
Consensus: A Hard Day's Night, despite its age, is still a delight to watch and has proven itself to be a rock-and-roll movie classic.
Theatrical Release:Dec 1, 2000 Limited
Synopsis: A HARD DAY'S NIGHT, nominated for two Academy Awards and featuring the Beatles in their feature film debut, is one of the greatest rock-and-roll comedy adventures ever. The film has a fully... [More]
Starring: Beatles, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison
Director: Richard Lester
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Reviews for A Hard Day's Night
Captures the Beatles when they still looked like they were having fun, back before drugs and psychedelia and Yoko Ono took effect.
10/30/02
The result still seems fresh and different decades later.
11/30/02
...if you don’t like the Beatles, you don’t like rock ’n’ roll. And if you don’t like A Hard Day’s Night, you don’t like movies.
10/30/02
The kind of timeless artifact that, decades after its making, still hits the senses like a burst of fresh air.
03/10/03
Richard Lester's innovative film, the Beatles' debut feature, is a timewarp memento of that brief 1963-4 phase in their history known as Beatlemania.
04/17/01
We loved them -- yeah, yeah, yeah. Now we can love them all over again.
12/08/00
Top CriticA sure-fire boxoffice smash.
01/01/00
For fans this is a chance to enjoy The Beatles' legendary music and charisma with unprecedented clarity.
04/27/09
The rock and roll movie against which all others are measured.
01/01/00
American-born director Richard Lester serves up a helping of what, on this side of the pond, we came to think of as kicky, mod British filmmaking.
09/10/07
One of the great life-affirming landmarks of the movies.
01/01/00
Top CriticNo movie of the 1960s catches that era's irreverent joy and exuberance as much as director Richard Lester's Beatlemania saga.
12/07/00
Top CriticA love letter to innocence and euphoria and the sheer lifting joy of great pop music.
10/15/02
A kinetic musical extravaganza that proved to detractors there was more to the Beatles than mop-tops and melodic pop hooks.
01/01/00
These three-minute singles still feel vibrant and alive.
01/01/00
Richard Lester's tangential, effortlessly clever ode to the Fab Four, given the re-mastered print and soundtrack treatment, still feels fresh and alive.
12/07/00
Top CriticIt captures almost everything good about its time.
12/22/00
Top CriticTo watch the final concert segment is to look back decades and realize, as you do seeing vintage footage of Duke Ellington or Frank Sinatra or John Coltrane, that it's never really gotten any better.
01/19/01
Top CriticIt's hard to estimate the effect the film had on the future of movies, television, and society in general.
10/01/02
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