The mop-tops are likeably relaxed, with Lennon offering a few welcome moments of his dry, acerbic wit.
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06/24/06
A Hard Day's Night (1964)
100 %
Reviews Counted: 69 Fresh: 69 Rotten:0 Average Rating: 8.1/10
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.
Runtime: 1 hr 50 mins
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 restored negative and digitally restored soundtrack. The year is 1964 and four young lads from... [More]
Genre: Television
Starring: Beatles, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Ringo Starr
Reviews
Top Critic
One of the most influential films of the past 40 years gets the spit and polish for a reissue -- and it still hasn't aged at all.
12/10/01
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
Top Critic
Great band, great music, great film. Not only that, it remains a fascinating portrait of Britain on the cusp of change.
04/17/01
Top Critic
The film moves with such joy, humor and fluidity that you can't help getting swept up in the frenzied action.
02/03/08
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
It's by no stretch of the imagination a good film, but it gets over as a curio and a landmark in modern Western culture.
08/29/05
See it for no other reason than it's all too rare you can spend 87 minutes smiling and feeling positive about life.
03/29/04
That Lester and the Beatles got away with the irreverent and superb Hard Day's Night is, by today's standards, a miracle.
10/15/03
And so, what began as a throwaway project to cash in on a band that everyone thought would quickly vanish turned into the first volley in a cultural revolution.
08/22/03
The cinema has had many landmarks, but few have been as entertaining.
06/19/03
It's a fine conglomeration of madcap clowning in the old Marx Brothers' style, and it is done with such a dazzling use of camera that it tickles the intellect and electrifies the nerves.
05/20/03
Top Critic
The kind of timeless artifact that, decades after its making, still hits the senses like a burst of fresh air.
03/10/03
...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
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
A breezy slice of silliness that pretty much has the Beatles playing themselves.
10/29/02
A love letter to innocence and euphoria and the sheer lifting joy of great pop music.
10/15/02
It'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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