Amy Poehler’s poignant and celebratory documentary about Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz provides fascinating insights into the extraordinary lives of television’s ground-breaking power couple.

Very affectionate and very loving to Lucille Ball in particular.

This is a first-rate documentary that tells the story of Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz in a way that allows for new insights into who they were and why they had the impact they did.

Even if unconditional love was essential to surviving the Un-American Activities Committee, misogyny and charges of “miscegenation,” a less reverential film would have probed into the logistics of how a couple could craft a home and an empire