...Beatles ’64 is not about the [Albert and David] Maysles but it would be about 20 minutes long without their amazing footage.

| Jan 28, 2025

"Beatles ‘64 is a refreshing look into The Beatles’ short-lived time on the road, dissecting their fame with first-hand accounts from their biggest fans."

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 18, 2025

The results are effective, as you are put back in a moment that undeniably stood out in the realm of cultural history.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Jan 8, 2025

The Beatles ‘64 is a fascinating and unguarded record of life inside a historic and world-changing cultural event.

| Jan 7, 2025

This is obvious if you’re a completist, as the modern restoration techniques used in Beatles ‘64 are able to present the group with a lot of new verve.

| Dec 21, 2024

In music, passion overrules reason, and sometimes that's just as important as anything else.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Dec 16, 2024

... An engrossing mixture of nostalgia and social commentary.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Dec 13, 2024

Nonetheless, fans will lap this up, however familiar they are with the famous footage shot by documentarists David and Albert Maysles, used by director David Tedeschi to complement all the talking heads...

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 13, 2024

It’s episodic and somewhat jumbled... but it’s difficult to deny the energy and engagement that emerges from David Tedeschi’s documentary.

| Dec 13, 2024

Frankly, I'd never given that much thought before, but living in Dallas, I still hear long-time residents talk about that horrible day and its lasting reverberations. It's wonderful to have something of a tonic in Beatles '64.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Dec 13, 2024

The film is strongest when it sticks close to a real-time sense of the madness unfolding, of a culture trying to process a genuinely shocking transformation.

| Dec 13, 2024

The Beatles ’64 is a testimony to the meteoric effect the Beatles had on culture told by those who lived it.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 12, 2024

Yet another starry-eyed documentary about the band has little to make it stand out in a crowded field.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 10, 2024

A generation who came of age in the 1960s is going to love this personal take and behind-the-scenes view of the Fab Four's first visit to the USA.

| Dec 9, 2024

By collecting the footage, gathering the stories and presenting very generous samples of the songs, "Beatles '64" makes it clear why the Beatles made such an impact and why the group and its music continue to not only be remembered but revered.

| Dec 6, 2024

For those yearning to feel the happy warmth of American Beatlemania in its earliest days, it’s all here.

| Dec 4, 2024

Beatles '64 finds its raison d'être in the wonderful images from 60 years ago. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 4, 2024

The previously unseen moments in Beatles ’64 still manage to add something to this most pored-over of cultural watersheds.

| Dec 3, 2024

Watching the band in the Plaza Hotel and fans in the streets, hoping to catch a glimpse of their idols, you can’t help but get swept up in a 60-year-old fervor.

| Dec 3, 2024

Do we really need another Beatles film? Yes we do!

| Original Score: 5/5 | Dec 3, 2024