‘Saturday Night’ Review: Not Live, Not Funny, Not Much

The nostalgia is so thick in Saturday Night, Jason Reitman’s furiously busy paean to the nascent days of SNL, so unrelenting and potent, that eventually it unmoors from the film and begins swallowing its characters whole, like the titular alien in Steve McQueen’s The Blob.

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SATURDAY NIGHT ★★1/2 (2.5/4 stars)
Directed by: Jason Reitman
Written by: Jason Reitman and Gil Kenan
Starring: Gabriel LaBelle, Rachel Sennott, Cory Michael Smith, Dylan O’Brien, Ella Hunt, Emily Fairn, Lamorne Morris, Matt Wood, Kim Matula, Cooper Hoffman, Nicholas Braun, Finn Wolfhard, Tommy Dewey, Matthew Rhys, Willem Dafoe, J.K. Simmons
Running time: 109 mins.

It’s coming for Gilda Radner, played by British actor Ella Hunt (Kevin Costner’s ongoing Horizon saga). As she observes a coked-up........

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