‘Lorne’ Review: Just When You Thought You Were Done Looking Back at ‘SNL,’ Morgan Neville’s Puckishly Playful Lorne Michaels Doc Completes the Picture

The backstage "SNL" detail is beyond familiar, but this time it's filtered through a teasing portrait of the man behind the curtain.

By Owen Gleiberman

Owen Gleiberman

Chief Film Critic

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Like countless fans of “Saturday Night Live,” I felt like I spent the show’s 50th anniversary year immersed in a tutorial of “SNL” history and its place in show business — I’m talking about all the “SNL50” specials and the anniversary show and Questlove’s music doc and Jason Reitman’s “Saturday Night,” a backstage drama in which almost none of the actors quite nailed the cast members they were playing, yet there was still a vision to the movie, a sense of how “SNL” was the first network comedy show to grab the danger and insanity of the world off camera and pull it on camera.

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