John: You gotta admit that John is funny. Like, come on. I know all the bad stuff about him. But you've gotta admit he was funny. We cannot have a productive dialogue if you won't meet me halfway on this. All the zoomer boys with haircuts like broccoli taking shots at him on TikTok can't touch how funny he is singing Two Of Us with Paul through clenched teeth. John has always been my favorite Beatle. Ever since I was seven. Your Beatle picks you and that's just how it is. You'll never tell me anything about John I don't already know. He's still my Beatle. I'm old enough now that I dig it. John rocks.

Paul: It's simply impossible…

In a world that has strip-mined and sold seemingly every last piece of Beatles ephemera, I was amazed to learn that 160 unused hours of footage from the shooting of Let It Be had somehow gone unexploited. But having now seen this documentary, I realize that all the raw footage from all those whirring cameras would have been meaningless without a great filmmaker who could make the thousands of small but crucial editorial decisions to shape it all into something that 1) conveys what the energy of the room probably felt like, 2) addresses all the narratives we’ve all internalized about this moment of the band’s existence, and 3) depicts the slow, unglamorous business of art-making while not being boring…