A to Z Challenge 2020 - Films That Begin With “Y”

The Yellow Birds (2018)
Director: Alexandre Moors
Starring: Alden Ehrenreich, Tye Sheridan, Jack Huston, Jennifer Aniston, Jason Patric
Brief Thoughts: An all-star cast of young Hollywood in Alden Ehrenreich, Tye Sheridan, and Jack Huston in a war movie. The screenwriter is David Lowery, otherwise known as one of the great underrated directors working today. Jennifer Aniston turns in a fine supporting role as a mom. Jason Patric is a treasure, as always.

Yesterday (2019)
Director: Danny Boyle
Starring: Himesh Patel, Lily James, Kate McKinnon, Beatles songs, Ed Sheeran
Brief Thoughts: I remain hopelessly in love with this movie! Critics were fairly merciless about it, even though Danny Boyle is ordinarily their kind of director. I guess anything resembling traditional gooey romance repels them? Ordinarily not my kind of genre, either. But the Beatles...! Kate McKinnon puts in another great supporting role as a record exec. Ed Sheeran, for a lot of people who may be drawn in by the Beatles, is probably exactly what the critics said about the Beatles, that his presence is inexplicable. They won’t have any clue that he’s a big star today. His biggest hit (“Shape of You”) shows up as Sheeran’s own ringtone. It’s the only song I know of his. No offense to Ed Sheeran, but “Shape of You” is not the Beatles. There’s nothing wrong with pointing this out.

You Were Never Really Here (2018)
Director: Lynne Ramsay
Starring: Joaquin Phoenix
Brief Thoughts: In my review of Joker here, I mentioned that Joaquin Phoenix starred in this a little before it, and that there are many parallels. There are some differences (no clown makeup, he has a beard, no Robert De Niro, he is a badass), but otherwise...!