The stakes are higher than other recent industry satires because meaningful art is bumping up against the broken film industry.

| Apr 15, 2025

The Studio is no hatchet job; a palpable love of the world it’s poking fun at shines through in every scene.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Apr 4, 2025

There has been no shortage of films and shows throughout the years that aim to prick the pomposity of the film game or satirise the silliness of it... but what makes The Studio stand out is that it genuinely seems to come from a place of love for cinema.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Mar 29, 2025

What sets The Studio apart from the many other recent sitcoms that attempt to skewer the entertainment industry is not just its attention to craft and its uniformly strong ensemble cast but its unironic love for the medium of cinema.

| Mar 27, 2025

It might not even be an exaggeration. Too often, though, “The Studio” feels like it was made by film people strictly for film people. Inside baseball? You can smell the cork.

| Mar 27, 2025

There is impressive craft to the series... Too often, though, that craft is undermined by lazy contrivances, hoary tropes that feel well beneath the high stylistic ambition of the series.

| Mar 27, 2025

It is a comedy full of good jokes, sight gags, physical comedy, and witty edits, and it is fun. But like a lot of good comedy, it's about something, too.

| Mar 27, 2025

“The Studio” is a fun show, no doubt. Spot-the-celebrity is always an entertaining game. But it is not the brilliant satire it purports to be, or that I so wanted it to be.

| Mar 27, 2025

It's the way "The Studio" moves through these spaces and captures these performances that is the most audacious and most rewarding aspect of this outstanding new comedy series.

| Mar 27, 2025

Each celeb appearance never overwhelms the series’ purpose to let Matt and his harried band of studio colleagues get all tangled up in trying to get their jobs done and pull off a blockbuster that could save the studio’s butt — and theirs in the process.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Mar 27, 2025

Every cameo is another brush stroke in the portrait rendered by “The Studio”: A collective middle finger to the system, sent with love.

| Mar 27, 2025

Watching a man’s better angels forever drowning in a rising tide of venality is always fun, is it not? And it sells.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 26, 2025

A star-soaked tribute to the best and worst instincts of Hollywood.

| Original Score: A | Mar 26, 2025

“The Studio” excels at cringy humor, but it’s also doing some high-octane, technically impressive stuff and feathering a goofy Rogen comedy with layer after layer of nerdy film goodies.

| Mar 26, 2025

The result is deeply unfunny and little more than a rehash of past Hollywood sendups.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Mar 26, 2025

There’s not a moment of The Studio that isn’t engaging, that doesn’t grip you in its clutches. It’s intoxicating, as if you’re on some wild, drug-assisted ride. You’ll feel everything — frustration, giddiness, disbelief, loathing and euphoria.

| Mar 26, 2025

When it hits, it’s a hilarious reminder of what can happen in that ridiculous town when enough talented people are all working in unison at the top of their game.

| Mar 25, 2025

Rogen and Goldberg deliver a comedy that is frequently laugh-out-loud funny, and even if it’s short on tenderness or social critique, it has that big, bustling kinetic energy associated with the high points of knockabout cinema.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 25, 2025

Rather, in its warm embrace of an industry in decline, what The Studio actually resembles is a postcard from the end of an empire.

| Mar 25, 2025

The series is timely enough to be a little distinctive, and it knows its business well enough to be blisteringly entertaining.

| Mar 25, 2025