When Richard Lester directed A Hard Day’s Night (1964) he pulled off some sort of miracle. Here is a movie that is simultaneously a great musical, a funny comedy, and all the cast members have effortless chemistry. It helps that the main cast members are John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr playing themselves at the height of Beatlemania. At that point in their career these four had such good rapport that they practically finish each other’s sentences, oftentimes to make fun of Ringo. When they are not busy causing trouble for their managers or ribbing each other, they are playing their songs, giving the movie one of the best soundtracks in cinema history. As I watched this movie vaccines were becoming more and more available, meaning the light is finally getting brighter at the end of the horrible tunnel that is the global pandemic. Eventually all cinemas will reopen and watching movies will once again be a community event. Until then, anyone still stuck