Let It Be is suddenly a joy. Everything is here: the love as well as the strife, the incredible detail of their songwriting, and the daftness that was intrinsic to the band and helped oil the wheels of everything.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 15, 2024

At the very least it’s a fascinating historical document. However, the fly on the wall songbook approach is draggy and repetitive...

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 12, 2024

For all the troubles the movie reveals, it’s nonetheless a joyful compendium of creative energy.

| May 10, 2024

There are no more charismatic performers or immaculate musicians on the rock scene today than the Beatles, and to watch them running through more than a dozen good tunes is a pleasure. Let It Be may not be much of a movie, but it's a fine concert.

| May 9, 2024

The music, which I prefer in smaller doses, is no doubt splendidly in their style and a final scene in which they play on a roof in Burlington Gardens makes the comforting suggestion that they can still stop the traffic.

| May 9, 2024

It might be fun if it were not so grainily photographed, so incomprehensibly recorded and, at times, so erratically synchronised.

| May 9, 2024

Come to think of it, for a dull film it certainly was exciting.

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 9, 2024

The documentary, their third feature appearance, is none too artfully made... But the film is arresting.

| May 9, 2024

It makes for the warmest and most engaging hour and a half of film I've seen in weeks, maybe longer. It is also an immensely interesting glimpse at these four pleasant and talented young men who constitute so large a hunk of social history.

| May 9, 2024

Anybody who likes the Beatles will dig their latest film, Let It Be... Their fans may not want to miss this glimpse of them in relaxed fashion, particularly since they have been reported to be splitting up and may not appear together again.

| May 9, 2024

Let It Be is a very lovely spectacle -- a film to make you smile, and with its 16mm tawny colors and pastels, one that invites repeated viewings.

| May 9, 2024

It offers no particular insight into any one in the quartet. It merely shows the Beatles at work, in the process of preparing their album "Let It Be," and, on that level, the film is rather slyly entertaining.

| May 9, 2024

There is no story, no screenplay, none of the visual gimmickry of Richard Lester's Beatles films, or the brilliant animation of Yellow Submarine. It is not even a good documentary.

| May 9, 2024

Let It be is as close to a performance by the Beatles as we're likely to see, since the group has seemingly broken up. That makes it all the more unfortunate that it's such a bad film.

| May 9, 2024

In truth, its overall tone doesn’t seem that different from the ostensibly happier or more rounded Get Back: a handful of arguments and moments of froideur interspersed with clowning for the camera.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 8, 2024

Viewed without the immediate drama of the band’s break-up, “Let It Be” indeed comes across as the “curious and fascinating character” Lindsay-Hogg has always maintained it to be.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | May 7, 2024

Lindsay-Hogg’s film seems very modern, in part because of the bold choice (for the time) to have no voiceover narration... the viewer is thrown into the action and left to draw their own conclusions from snatches of dialogue and fleeting expressions.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 7, 2024

If Peter Jackson’s near-eight hour Get Back miniseries was a blowout of Beatles-nerd gluttony, this restored feature-length documentary from the same period is a less calorific dessert.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 7, 2024

Returned to its original glory, "Let It Be" is a work of sheer beauty, capturing rock ‘n’ roll’s most extraordinary foursome as they battled a series of daunting conditions and rediscovered their art in the nick of time.

| May 7, 2024

Get Back is the history. Let It Be is a poem.

| May 7, 2024