A Hard Day's Night
United Artists | Release Date: August 11, 1964 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
96
METASCORE
Universal acclaim based on 24 Critic Reviews
Positive:
24
Mixed:
0
Negative:
0
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
100
TV Guide MagazineFrank Lovece
Refreshing, innovative and immensely funny. Read full review
100
EmpirePatrick Peters
Make a date to catch this on the big screen and be rewarded with pure magic. Read full review
100
Slant MagazineJake Cole
Even when the band plays away from private eyes or songs simply play over disconnected footage of them having fun, the strength of their songcraft is stirring. Read full review
100
Christian Science MonitorDavid Sterritt
Wit, joy, imagination, and sensational mid-'60s music. Read full review
100
Film.comRobert Horton
Conveys not just a joy in music and The Beatles, but a joy in cinema.
100
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert
No movie has had a greater impact on the way people looked. The music of course is immortal. Read full review
100
Chicago TribuneMichael Wilmington
One of the most excitingly contemporary musicals ever made.
100
Los Angeles TimesKenneth Turan
It enables us to recapture exactly the delightful sensations felt all those years ago when we and the world were young and exciting together. Read full review
100
Washington PostDesson Thomson
It doesn't matter how many times you see these images. They're always exciting. Read full review
100
New York Daily NewsJack Mathews
As joyously energetic now as the day it arrived.
100
SlateDavid Edelstein
Watching the opening of A Hard Day's Night is like getting a direct injection of happiness. Read full review
100
Miami HeraldHoward Cohen
Lester managed to come up with a movie that not only holds together as a film but one that has proven timeless and rewards repeat viewings.
100
SalonStephanie Zacharek
It's 85 minutes of screen time that represents one crystallized moment not in the Beatles' career per se but in the parallel career they forged inside all of us, the one that will last beyond any breakup, retirement or death. Read full review
100
Boston GlobeJay Carr
In a crisply restored print, it's as joyous as ever. We loved them - yeah, yeah, yeah. Now we can love them all over again.
100
New York PostLou Lumenick
Bursting with energy and originality even after 36 years, A Hard Day's Night is easily the best show in town.
100
Philadelphia InquirerSteven Rea
It's inspired fun.
100
Baltimore SunChris Kaltenbach
A non-stop cinematic funhouse impossible to resist.
100
Entertainment WeeklyOwen Gleiberman
They're like gods at play, paragons of pure delight, as they mock and feign their way through a universe of mere mortals. To see the movie again is to realize that they were never entirely of this earth and that they never will be. Read full review
90
Washington PostDavid Segal
Still a marvel of verve and bone-dry wit, the movie has been treated kindly by time.
88
Charlotte ObserverLawrence Toppman
The songs are pure joy, for them and for us.
80
Rolling StonePeter Travers
You wanna feel all right? This is the holiday movie that will do it.
80
VarietyStaff (Not Credited)
A wacky, offbeat piece of filming, charged with vitality, and inventiveness by director Dick Lester. Read full review
70
Chicago ReaderDon Druker
Lester serves up a helping of what, on this side of the pond, we came to think of as kicky, mod British filmmaking Read full review
70
Village VoiceJ. Hoberman
No previous rocksploitation film had ever done so splendid a job of selling its performers. Read full review
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