It’s a projection of curiosity disguising actual incuriosity...

| Nov 13, 2023

Still crazy after all these years.

| Aug 19, 2019

Live from New York! feels completely like a Lorne Michaels vanity project.

| Original Score: 2.75/5 | Jul 20, 2019

Anti-establishment hepcats like Bill O'Reilly and Al Gore attest to the show's enduring satirical relevance, while every hard-hitting question about institutionalized racism and sexism comes with a readymade apologia and a perfectly cherry-picked clip.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 19, 2019

Nguyen's film does deserve credit for not only not shying away from its subject's darker moments, but addressing them head-on in the first act.

| Aug 24, 2017

It isn't just a rehash of the same old stories and clips. It's a stylish and entertaining examination of why it's still on the air, 40 years on - and why we're still talking about it.

| May 28, 2016

Unfortunately lacking deep insight into the Saturday Night Live dynasty, [this] plays as a series of mini-documentaries that might come packaged with a best-of DVD.

| Original Score: C- | Feb 22, 2016

It's refreshing to see a retrospective of the show that's not bogged down by overly detailed timelines and the desire to wax nostalgic.

| Nov 17, 2015

Greater effort should have been spent examining the film's emerging ideas relating to racism, sexism, political involvement and changing public perspectives then using them as a basis for the film itself.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 12, 2015

Nguyen does fine work illustrating how SNL went from the ultimate outsider show to the ultimate institution, stopping along the way to touch briefly on controversies .

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Aug 14, 2015

As fun and smart as the political sketches are, the director had plenty of room to shill, say, the Bass-o-Matic or Bad Idea Jeans.

| Jun 24, 2015

A sloppy wet kiss.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jun 19, 2015

More fun than most Boomer memory-lane docs.

Full Review | Jun 19, 2015

Docu underlines Saturday Night Live's cultural impact.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 19, 2015

Live From New York! takes a sweeping but dully corporate view of the comedy institution, yielding almost nothing in the way of revelation or insight.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jun 17, 2015

It may be fun and nostalgic while it runs, but when it's over you can't help but feel shortchanged, even a little bit used.

| Original Score: C- | Jun 13, 2015

There's still enough here to make it worth a watch, especially given the high caliber of interview subjects and the (still funny) clips.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 13, 2015

As infomercials go, the doc is funnier than a Sham-Wow! spot, but it's still an infomercial.

| Original Score: B- | Jun 13, 2015

This pleasant, spectacularly uninformative documentary celebrates a venerable television institution that already spends quite enough time celebrating itself, thank you very much.

| Jun 12, 2015

It's too cursory, too frivolous to make a case for the show's importance as an American institution, even though it insists on it.

| Jun 12, 2015