[1][2] Steve Leggett of AllMusic praised the album saying, "The Beatles' song catalog is one of the best-known and revered bodies of work in the whole of modern music, and the depth, variety, and timelessness of the songs this once-in-a-lifetime band produced make that catalog both a marvel and a treasure.

Those versions are there, shining in stone, and even when they show up in remixes like in the recent LOVE mashup, the original recordings echo unshakably in the mind.

She knows, and she addresses it by reconfiguring the 12 songs she's chosen to sing into fascinating new shapes and arrangements, not exactly escaping the original versions, but giving them a fresh new direction by jazzy shifts in the melodies, and pinning them to inventive and very contemporary rhythms and recording techniques.

"[3] Matt Bauer of Exclaim!, in a favourable review, said "Perhaps taking inspiration from Bettye Lavette's successful 2010 release of British Invasion classics, Interpretations: The British Rock Songbook, Let It Be Roberta sees Flack tackle 12 Beatles classics.

The Lennon/McCartney catalogue is so embedded in our collective consciousness that you can't shake the echoes of the original songs and the fact that Flack is well aware of this makes this set interesting.