These moments of tenderness are a reminder that even amidst the chaos of today, there is joy, and thus power, in the ones you love, in your moments of faith or embarrassment, in your community, in your sexuality.

| Mar 15, 2021

Stage Fright calls on us to treat ourselves with respect, even when it feels like our world (personal, political, environmental) is crashing down.

| Nov 8, 2019

Jenny Slate: Stage Fright is funny, fearless, and phenomenal. It's a must-see that may make you feel seen. And if not, may still make you cackle like its charismatic comedian. Don't miss it.

| Nov 4, 2019

Jenny Slate is candid, genuine and endearing in her first stand-up special for Netflix. The standard special is elevated by home videos and documentary style vignettes.

| Nov 3, 2019

I can think of no better way to describe Stage Fright than as a secret, gentle, creamy treat for those who love and think deeply about clothing.

| Nov 2, 2019

In her willingness to invite others into her romantic, family, and interior lives, Slate gives the distinct impression she's not performing at all.

| Oct 25, 2019

[Jenny] Slate commits from head to toe, which is to say that she moves like one of those inflatable advertising tubes outside of a car dealership. Her exaggerated physicality is matched only by her buzzing, infectious enthusiasm.

| Original Score: 8.6/10 | Oct 25, 2019

Stage Fright features plenty of the proudly feminist and wildly silly material that fans should expect, but as Slate reflects on her coming of age and ongoing struggles with love and happiness, she doesn't leave everything on stage.

| Oct 24, 2019

Slate gives us her all, and all of her, here. It's almost impossible not to fall for her.

| Oct 24, 2019

Slate-like so many women-has more than one self, and she shows us a few of them in Stage Fright.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Oct 23, 2019

What Stage Fright lacks in polish, it makes up for in effervescence and deeply confessional moments.

| Oct 23, 2019

I appreciated and related to Slate's honesty in these moments, and found Robespierre's choice to save them 'til the backend to be subtly powerful - the medicine hits harder because of the sugar we've been fed before.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Oct 23, 2019

Robespierre sets up a playful rhythm between the performance material and the straight documentary that turns the project's two halves into a kind of conversation.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 23, 2019

In spite of my reservations, though, the final leg of Slate's stand-up does feel like a sum that's doing its best to capitalize on all of the hour's many parts.

| Oct 23, 2019

Where some textbook comedy specials fall flat because of over-rehearsed jokes or stiffness, Stage Fright succeeds because it oozes authenticity, thanks in part to a combination of Slate's overwhelming joy and a display of deep vulnerability

| Original Score: A | Oct 23, 2019