‘Steve! (Martin)’ review: The wild and crazy (and private) guy shares his story
by Peter Rainer
Mar 29, 2024
2 minutes
Morgan Neville’s excellent documentary “Steve! (Martin): A Documentary in 2 Pieces” reminds me of how unreasonably happy Steve Martin made me feel when I first caught his act in the mid-1970s. At a time when so much stand-up comedy was acridly political, he turned high-style goofiness into an art form.
The film is split into two stylistically very different 90-minute sections, entitled “Then” and “Now.” The first section,
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