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Starring: Lorne Michaels, Lorne Michaels’ Friends

Director: Morgan Neville

Running Time: 101 Minutes

Rating: R

Release Date: April 17, 2026 (Theaters)

If Lorne Michaels is the most inscrutable man in showbiz, then why even attempt to make a documentary about him? Morgan Neville answers that by responding: lean into that inscrutability, particularly with Chris Parnell’s drolly measured narration and Robert Smigel’s TV Funhouse-style animation about Lorne’s life. Lorne could have easily just been interviews with Saturday Night Live people, mixed in with a smattering of key SNL clips (and it in fact is mostly that), and it would have felt like home to Studio 8H enthusiasts like myself. But is it too unilluminating to appeal to anyone outside that fandom? Perhaps, but the filmmaking is cheeky enough to deliver satisfying facial contortions to those watching.

Grade: 71 “It’s Like, That Things” out of 103 Righttttts