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

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

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

What the Beatles did in 1964 alone continues to change the world -- and Beatles ’64 is testimony to that ongoing story.

| Dec 3, 2024

Good as “Beatles ‘64″ is, it’s not of “Get Back” quality... It feels ungrateful, though, to complain about such an exhilarating 106 minutes.

| Dec 2, 2024

Though it’s much shorter than [The Beatles: Get Back], Tedeschi’s 106-minute film operates on much the same principle: It never feels the least bit new or necessary, and yet almost every second of it sparks the joy of a genuine revelation.

| Original Score: B | Nov 26, 2024

The powerful pull of Beatles 64... is that it takes this fabled, high-swoon moment of pop-music history, almost all of which we now view through a mythological lens, and humanizes it in an exhilarating way.

| Nov 26, 2024

A delightful new-old documentary.

| Nov 26, 2024

Clips of the band loafing around in a hotel are obviously never quite as electrifying as the studio scenes from Peter Jackson’s The Beatles: Get Back, but they still provide an entertaining chronicle of what it was like to be a Moptop beyond the hysteria.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 25, 2024

This is what makes Beatles ’64 special: a capturing of everyday people, bowled over by a new phenomenon.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 25, 2024

It feels as if there is a better film inside this one, struggling to get out. Maybe it is the Maysles original.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 25, 2024

Perhaps “Beatles ’64” will only appeal to Beatlemaniacs like myself, but that doesn’t diminish its strength showing the birth of Beatlemania in America.

| Nov 25, 2024

An amazing split-second of cultural history.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Nov 25, 2024

The director’s experience with music-related films serves him well here in an adroit assembly of Maysles footage, archival material and contemporary interviews that contextualize the time capsule in ways both entertaining and enlightening.

| Nov 25, 2024

Brilliantly capturing the heady days of Beatlemania, "Beatles ’64" holds the power to make your heart sing with pure joy.

| Nov 25, 2024