‘Yesterday’
Yesterday somehow manages to be a very sweet movie, even though it presents us with a premise that asks, what if The Beatles (and their music) didn’t exist in the world? Himesh Patel stars as Jack Malik, a singer-songwriter who, due to a rather unexplained event, is the only person who can remember The Beatles’ songs. So he pretends he wrote them, duh. Lily James is delightful as his best pal and manager, Ed Sheeran plays Ed Sheeran in a film again, and Kate McKinnon brings a few guaranteed chuckles to the game. While the movie largely avoids supplying any even remotely science-based facts or theories about the events that take place, this movie will definitely make you smile, and sometimes that’s all that really matters.