In the absence of a functioning time machine, none of us alive today can ever visit the mother of all discos. Studio 54 offers the next best thinga window into a moment where mainstream and queer history united, and a taste of one Hell of a great party.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 20, 2022

While this documentary exposes the club's mechanisms for what they were, the pizzazz of what made Studio 54 what it was is still very much present.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 1, 2021

Embodies the hedonistic voice of the essential and legendary club; an end of a definitive era that strips bare the sugar coating with forthright honesty and absolutely no shame.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 19, 2020

I really did like it.

| May 15, 2020

I found it really interesting and good.

| May 15, 2020

The documentary revives the energy of the mythic New York nightclub. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Apr 13, 2020

Schrager's memories of his friendship with Rubell, and the lost community they nourished, lends the film unexpected heart.

| Feb 12, 2020

A fresh visiting to Studio 54. A must to that decade. A historic piece of art. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jul 31, 2019

Though perhaps not as groundbreaking as the club it chronicles, Studio 54 is nevertheless an interesting, entertaining look at an indulgent era and the place that defined it.

| May 29, 2019

Crucial to the documentary is the involvement of Ian Schrager, who until recently was reluctant to share his version of the club's history.

| Apr 26, 2019

Docu about '70s club has sex, drugs, and disco.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 6, 2019

Studio 54 is not a great documentary by any stretch of the imagination, but it is a reasonably entertaining experience and, unlike most late nights at Studio 54, you probably won't hate yourself the morning after.

| Feb 8, 2019

... the film is just as much a tribute to the club as the two men who created it.

| Original Score: 7.5/10 | Dec 22, 2018

The rise was meteoric, and the fall painful, with Schrager, who would go on to master the boutique hotel, discussing for the first time the mix of youthful ambition and greed that started to suggest a Martin Scorsese movie.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Dec 10, 2018

The movie tries hard to make the story of the club's rise and fall emblematic of an era, but in the end, it's about a couple of old friends from the neighborhood who got lucky, got greedy, and got caught.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Nov 16, 2018

The first hand accounts are really what made this documentary so special. Even though over 40 years have passed, people's faces light up with delight when they talk about Studio 54 .

| Original Score: 8.5/10 | Oct 30, 2018

For a venue that prided itself on madcap extravagance, the documentary feels somewhat tame as if deliberately targeted at the discotheque nightclubbers who are now respectful suburbanites.

| Original Score: B | Oct 29, 2018

Tyrnauer is a consummate storyteller, and we get a meticulous account of both the macro and micro view of what happened.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Oct 29, 2018

Burn, baby, burn, Matt Tyrnauer's "Studio 54" is a disco inferno of fun and nostalgia.

| Original Score: B | Oct 27, 2018

For those who never were chic enough to get in the club's door, this might be the next best thing.

| Oct 27, 2018