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My best worst film: Across the Universe is a Beatles jukebox musical masterpiece

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My best worst film: Across the Universe is a Beatles jukebox musical masterpiece
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The Conversation
DOI 10.64628/aa.ekvnn96gn
Authors

Macrossan, Phoebe

Abstract

It was a box office flop, panned by critics. But in using the songs of the Beatles to craft a story of Vietnam-era America, Julie Taymor reinvigorated the film musical.

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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 19. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 20 May 2026.
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#2,437,093
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#161,993
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Altmetric has tracked 32,757,237 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 92nd percentile: it's in the top 10% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
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