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- Rick Aragon @ Rick’s Texan Reviews
- Excerpt: Selling me on something that I never fully bought into, Saturday Night works thanks to some standout performances.
- David “DC” Bolling @ DC’s Take
- Excerpt: Saturday Night is an incredibly sharp biopic chronicling the program’s birth in a captivating environment. Topped with a memorable ensemble led by LaBelle and enough nostalgia to please older fans, it’s nothing but a great time courtesy of writer/director Jason Reitman.
- Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: Saturday Night, the show’s original title, is a reminder of the off-the-wall, DIY, drug-fueled anarchy of the early days of the show. Now in its 50th year, if only SNL itself were so consistently entertaining.
- Sarah Gopaul @ Digital Journal
- Excerpt: Co-writer and director Jason Reitman deftly manages to capture the frantic energy, which emanates from the screen as every character is abuzz with excitement and anxiety.
- Mark Hobin @ Fast Film Reviews
- Excerpt: The account reimagines the chaos behind SNL’s first episode. A fun look at TV history in the making.
- [New] | Jared Mobarak @ Hey, have you seen …?
- Excerpt: LaBelle carries them all on his shoulders through every impossible success and devastating (yet not insurmountable) failure. Add Jon Batiste’s live score propelling us from one scene or room to the next and you end up just as out-of-breath as them.
- Christopher Reed @ Film Festival Today
- Excerpt: Watching the shenanigans proves very entertaining, though the women—beyond Sennott’s Shuster—get short shrift. Ultimately, “Saturday Night” may be nothing more than an engaging reenactment of a cultural touchstone’s humble beginnings, without much resonance beyond its runtime, but it’s still one hell of a wild and laugh-out-loud ride.
- Josh Thayer @ The Forgetful Film Critic
- Excerpt: Saturday Night is cliché-ridden, offers practically zero insight into any of the characters, and features a made-to-order climax wherein everything magically falls into place at exactly the right moment. An exercise in subtlety, it is not.
