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‘Saturday Night’ Is Quite Alive For Awards Season: What The Critics Are Saying Out Of Telluride World Premiere
Sony has an awards season contender in Jason Reitman's 'Saturday Night' coming away from Telluride premiere, so say the critics.
When a studio world premieres a movie at Telluride to tee off its chances during awards season, they have to make sure they’ve got the goods, and Sony certainly did coming away from its launch of Jason Reitman ‘s all-star Saturday Night about the 90-minute agita experienced by SNL producer Lorne Michaels before the show’s first broadcast in the fall of 1975. Vulture critic Bilge Ebiri was intrigued, but cognizant of the creative license needed to heighten the tick-tock drama, writing, “ Saturday Night might not be factually accurate, but it feels spiritually true.” The reviewer says that LaBelle “has just the right deer-in-the-headlights anti-charisma to pull off Michaels; he at no point seems to be a man with a plan, and we enjoy watching him squirm.” Case in point, pre-Covid,Greta Gerwig’s Oscar winner Little Women, which became an awards season event earning $108.1M, and most recently this summer, the Culver City lot brought the romance drama back alive with the Blake Lively-Justin Baldoni title It Ends With Us which has racked up close to $136M and counting.
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