LET IT BE MOVIE REVIEWS: THE BEATLES' REMASTERED DOCUMENTARY ‘JOYFUL' AND ‘STAGGERING'

After being officially unavailable for over 50 years, ' documentary film Let It Be has finally been restored for release.

Streaming on Disney+ from today, Let It Be captures John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr recording their final album together, alongside their last live performance on the roof of Apple Corps HQ.

Fans will no doubt have already viewed Peter Jackson's revisionist 8-hour documentary The Beatles: Get Back, which used unseen footage from Michael Lindsay-Hogg's 1969 shoot.

Reviews for the remastered Let It Be movie are out now and the vast majority are a glowing 4 stars.

VarietyOne of the most joyful rock documentaries ever made.

Daily TelegraphLindsay-Hogg's film seems very modern, in part because of the bold choice (for the time) to have no voiceover narration... the viewer is thrown into the action and left to draw their own conclusions from snatches of dialogue and fleeting expressions.

The TimesIf Peter Jackson's near-eight hour Get Back miniseries was a blowout of Beatles-nerd gluttony, this restored feature-length documentary from the same period is a less calorific dessert.

The GuardianIn truth, its overall tone doesn't seem that different from the ostensibly happier or more rounded Get Back: a handful of arguments and moments of froideur interspersed with clowning for the camera.

Evening StandardLet It Be is suddenly a joy. Everything is here: the love as well as the strife, the incredible detail of their songwriting, and the daftness that was intrinsic to the band and helped oil the wheels of everything; a silly sense of humour is surely a human's most underrated quality, at least when it comes to English people.

NMEThere may not be a more punk rock bit of film on earth than George being told the police were on the roof to shut them down, and casually turning his amp back on. For that alone, for all its whitewashing and line-toeing, Let It Be remains a staggering watch.

Let It Be and The Beatles: Get Back are streaming now on Disney+.

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