Name : Dave Calhoun / Alias : Time Out
A sparky, moving and funny film about John, Paul, George and Ringo, whose own youthful words provide the film's best moments.

Name : Joe Morgenstern / Alias : Wall Street Journal
Don't expect trenchant analysis or deep insights into the group's creative process. Do revel, however, in the gleeful tumult and the gorgeous music.

Name : Anthony Lane / Alias : New Yorker
The Beatles now belong to an honored past, stuck there like an obelisk, and yet here they are, alive-busting out all over, time and time again. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Name : Bill Goodykoontz / Alias : Arizona Republic
I've heard "Rubber Soul" and "Revolver" and "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" probably thousands of times, too, and I still like hearing them. So it is with Howard's movie - the story is so incredibly good, it's worth repeating.

Name : Peter Travers / Alias : Rolling Stone
Ron Howard's documentary rightly keeps coming back to the music and the band's delight in making it. Good move. It truly is a joy forever.

Name : Tom Shone / Alias : Newsweek
[Howard seems] as if he were intent on making a film for anyone who tuned in to The Ed Sullivan Show in 1964, fell in love with the four adorable mop tops and regrets all the long-haired plonking about with sitars that came later.

Name : John DeFore / Alias : Hollywood Reporter
It will make a fine entry point for younger auds who grew up with the songs but never had Beatlemania shoved down their throats.

Name : Gersh Kuntzman / Alias : New York Daily News
You can't watch them in these days and not be caught up in Beatlemania.

Name : J. R. Jones / Alias : Chicago Reader
The familiar events presented here were covered more thoroughly in the band's own 11-hour Beatles Anthology, though Howard has dug up some good ancillary concert footage that illustrates the chaos swirling around every show.

Name : Guy Lodge / Alias : Variety
Taken on [its own] limited terms, "Eight Days a Week" plays nicely enough: the mostly uptempo Side A of a well-stocked greatest hits album, as it were.

Name : G. Allen Johnson / Alias : San Francisco Chronicle
A must for any fan.

Name : Stephen Whitty / Alias : Newark Star-Ledger
As someone who's been a fan since 5, twisting away in my living room to their Ed Sullivan appearance, there isn't much I haven't seen. Or thought I hadn't. But Howard still digs up surprises .

Name : Godfrey Cheshire / Alias : RogerEbert.com
The group's fans today, of any age, are bound to welcome Eight Days a Week, in which Beatlemania's mid-'60s comet of joy and astonishment is thrillingly captured.

Name : Stephanie Merry / Alias : Washington Post
It all feels a little glossy, but who can complain when the vibes are so good and the tunes so catchy?

Name : Melissa Anderson / Alias : Village Voice
Frantically rushing through the quartet's prodigious output during these years, Eight Days a Week is best when it slows down .

Name : Alex McCown / Alias : AV Club
It's a testament to the buoyancy of the film that such exhausted, well-trod material can still feel fresh.

Name : Kenneth Turan / Alias : Los Angeles Times
The music is so strong, and such a demonstration of how potent the group was in action, that it alone makes the film worth seeing.

Name : Neil Genzlinger / Alias : New York Times
90 percent familiar and a bit hagiographic as well, but just try watching it without smiling.

Name : Ty Burr / Alias : Boston Globe
Take the kids and watch their little minds get blown.

Name : Paul de Barros / Alias : Seattle Times
By using home-movie footage in hotel rooms, fly-on-the-wall tape from the studio control room, Howard's film often succeeds in making you feel it all from the four lads' astonished point of view.

Name : Mark Caro / Alias : Chicago Sun-Times
Howard is more interested in wowing audiences with exuberant, hysteria-ridden performances than he is in digging for explanations.