The Beatles: Eight Days a Week--The Touring Years

Documentary, Music

A compilation of found footage featuring music, interviews, and stories of The Beatles' 250 concerts from 1963 to 1966.

The critical consensus

An exhilarating experience but tells us nothing new.

(*) Robert Spellman, Sunday Express, 11/09/2016

Ron Howard's expertly constructed documentary offers a stirring portrait of the Fab Four, even if it has nothing new to say.

(*) Nikki Baughan, The List, 12/09/2016

What makes the film magical is the sheer richness of the archive material and the pace at which it has been edited.

(*) Geoffrey Macnab, The Independent, 15/09/2016

Squanders reams of beautifully restored archival material and live recordings by contextualising them with some of the most banal commentary imaginable – mostly from celebrity fans.

(*) (*) (*) Alistair Harkness, The Scotsman, 15/09/2016

Ron Howard trashes the idea that there’s nothing new to say about the Beatles with a revealing survey of the four-year odyssey that changed everything.

(*) Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian, 15/09/2016

A wonderful reminder of all our yesterdays.

(*) Allan Hunter, Daily Express, 16/09/2016

Using rare footage, director Ron Howard puts us right in the audience in this exceptional account of the band on tour.

(*) Wendy Ide, The Observer, 18/09/2016