Siflutter It's easily one of the freshest, sharpest and most enjoyable films of this year.

Hadrina The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

Asad Almond A clunky actioner with a handful of cool moments.

Tymon Sutton The acting is good, and the firecracker script has some excellent ideas.

robhingston Really encapsulates the moments no other documentary on the Beatles has been able to do that in the same way ..

DKosty123 This is running on PBS, and it is worth seeing, even with pledge breaks. Ron Howard really did a great job directing this. The script was well written by a couple of solid writers. The stock footage used is top notch. The facts are as amazing as the group. What did the Beatles Years all really mean?Howard, a baby boomer might have understood the Beatles the best because he was 9 years old in 1963. Kids that age were in awe of what the group did, they grew up with them. The portrait here of how things were done by the group as they started out and grew is really a story that might not ever happen again today. Our society structure is so much different now. How did The Beatles work?Up until the right 4 guys were together, the early Beatles did not get anywhere. To approximately quote Ringo here, "When the 4 of us got together, the chemistry just seemed to fit. It was magic." It sure was, and because it was, the group rose to the highest of heights, and then broke up. This film focus is that rise.The point made late in the film is very true. When anyone gets too successful, the competition comes after you, and you become complacent and grow apart from yourself, losing sight of your original goals. This happens to everyone, who is young enough to live a long time after being this successful. It is not a spoiler to go over their success. This film goes beyond and actually digs into the personal feelings of the band as they got to the top, and then tried not to fall off. The film does note when those falls began, and why. It is told better here, than any other film including the Beatles own films.Rare footage is used here, including the groups last concert together, a unique and totally unplanned event. It is stunning. Even folks who are not Beatles fans should really appreciate this master piece of the telling of this story for what it is and what they were, phenomenal.

nicholls_les This does have some interesting elements to it but in the main I didn't really see or hear anything new.Of course it is always great seeing the Beatles perform in their hey day but even the clips chosen were not necessarily the best they could have used. I would have preferred to have seen better and longer clips of them playing instead of concentrating on the screaming stadium concerts which I am sure even the Beatles would admit were not their best.Some of the 'guest stars' chosen were bizarre. I couldn't care less what a second rate comedian such as Eddie Izzard thinks.I like Ron Howard and think he is usually a good director but this is not his finest moment.

Twins65 ...and in some ways, they still are.This is a group that played their last live (paying) show over 50 years ago, and they get still get a documentary movie made about their formative years which is released in theaters in 2016 and does respectable business.I was all of seven years old when they quit touring, and don't remember it happening in real time. So even though I've seen a bunch of these clips "snippeted" in the last half-century of my life, many of the behind the scenes day-to-day nuggets were all new, and well worth a viewing.To see the fan-love of the tours (U.S. and around the world) is still pretty unbelievable to look at. It was a different era, so instead of online mass adoration, EVERYBODY (REALLY, EVERYBODY!) JUST WENT OUT & SHOWED UP TO CATCH ANY KIND OF GLIMPSE THEY COULD GET OF THEM!This phenomenon probably wouldn't still be looked at with this much reverence today if the music doesn't stand the test of time. BUT IT DOES.If you like the sixties, or love the Beatles, you gotta' see this one.