I hated it, but I wasn't interested in it enough to listen to it again to find out why.

Yesterday – 1.5/5

I watched this because I tend to be surprised by Danny Boyle as a director. He tries new things. All the new things he tries here are bad. The movie posits that a world without the Beatles is a world that's infinitely worse and no, it's a world that's very much the same actually. What it instead puts forward is a newfound appreciation of the Beatles if only in knowing that everything they made could have been exactly what was, but worse. Musicians with talent enough to be good, but not great. If history was made by a bad cover version. Beyond that—Himesh Patel carries constantly a look of confusion and constrainment that gives me anxiety, and his love interest is someone who asks a man who has devoted his life to music to instead choose her at his moment of ascension. Pffbt.