The film has good — or at least flattering — intentions. That may be the problem. It is also, to an almost eerie degree, not funny.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 8, 2025

What we get are a few paltry sketches that land flatly but are buttressed by clunky shots of the studio crew in hysterics. The forced convulsions only make the gags seem less funny and certainly incapable of producing a seismic cultural disturbance.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 5, 2025

The film’s spirit of barely controlled anarchy brings an edge-of-the-seat tension to proceedings, and its restless energy is infectious... But for all the talk of gamechanging comedy genius, Saturday Night ultimately plays it rather safe.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 5, 2025

The founding of a comedy institution shot as a madcap thriller, Saturday Night glides over the surface rather than drilling deep, but it’s largely a hell of a fun 109 minutes.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 4, 2025

I would gladly watch a documentary about the first night of SNL, but I'm not sure that as a drama this works because for the people who know, they'll go 'yeah, that's not right' and for the people who don't know, they'll go 'sorry, I'm interested, why?'

| Feb 1, 2025

Even the superest superfan of the legendary US 온라인카지노추천 comedy show Saturday Night Live is going to struggle with the unbearable self-indulgence and self-adoration of this exhausting film from director and co-writer Jason Reitman.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Jan 31, 2025

Shot and staged in a self-consciously rowdy Altman-esque style, the havoc feels locked on rails...

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 30, 2025

Saturday Night has a lot more juice as a heightened stress-dream tour of a crumbling 온라인카지노추천 studio than as a comedy.

| Original Score: C+ | Dec 12, 2024

It’s madcap and giddy. Who cares if it’s only fleeting?

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Nov 20, 2024

There doesn’t seem to be much point to the film, which is too crammed with characters and subplots to dig into any one theme, yet too visibly micromanaged to convey any real feeling of anarchy.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 7, 2024

Rollicking, expertly cast cosplay... If you enjoy watching famous people play other famous people, you'll have a good time.

| Nov 3, 2024

Jason Reitman’s movie is an ode to Lorne Michaels, afraid to take even small risks.

| Oct 25, 2024

The cosplay is entertaining (and accurate) enough, but the conceit leaves ensemble members – to borrow the title of Jay Mohr’s book about his two-year stint on SNL – gasping for airtime. Meaningful airtime, anyway.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Oct 25, 2024

Pitch-perfect performances, a tight script, & an expertly paced narrative, Saturday Night brilliantly encapsulates the chaos, innovation, and raw talent of SNL. It’s stressful, chaotic, but above all - deliciously entertaining.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 18, 2024

After all, this is comedy coming from the first generation who grew up with television. That might have been true in 1975, but if you're looking for any of that energy in 2024, you'd be better off watching old sketches on YouTube...

| Oct 16, 2024

But there's definitely something there that the show is about to tap into, and the movie captures the buzzing beehive, even if it often stretches credulity.

| Original Score: C+ | Oct 13, 2024

Reitman keeps insisting that Saturday Night Live was a revolutionary shock to the system, a show so much more out there and alive than anything on 온라인카지노추천 at the time. So why does his movie end up feeling so safe, its anarchy so contained?

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 12, 2024

The script by Reitman and Gil Kenan is a haphazard, one-dimensional love letter to the show’s creator, Lorne Michaels (“The Fabelmans”’s Gabriel LaBelle) that gives short shrift to almost every other character.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Oct 11, 2024

“Saturday Night” is bursting with talent and ideas, is sometimes funny, sometimes groan-worthy, sometimes full of it — and even, at times, inspired. In other words, much like a typical episode of “Saturday Night Live.”

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 11, 2024

While the ensuing five decades have turned Michaels into a (publicly, anyway) subdued and soigné elder statesman of television, his 1975 version is portrayed here as something of a human equivalent of Kermit the Frog on The Muppet Show.

| Oct 11, 2024