Editing Saturday Night Fever (section)

===Critical response===
''Saturday Night Fever'' received positive reviews and is regarded by many critics as one of the best films of 1977.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://alumnus.caltech.edu/~ejohnson/critics/siskel.html |title=Gene Siskel's Top Ten Lists 1969–1998 |publisher=Alumnus.caltech.edu |date=February 20, 1999 |access-date=April 11, 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.filmsite.org/1977.html |title=Greatest Films of 1977: "melodramatic, out-dated blockbuster" |website=Filmsite.org |access-date=April 11, 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last=Johanson |first=MaryAnn|url=http://www.film.com/features/story/10-best-movies-of-1977/14896015 |title=The 10 Best Movies of 1977 – Movies |website=Film.com |date=May 25, 2007 |access-date=April 11, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100620184640/http://www.film.com/features/story/10-best-movies-of-1977/14896015 |archive-date=June 20, 2010}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.films101.com/y1977r.htm |title=The Best Movies of 1977 by Rank |website=Films101.com |access-date=April 11, 2011}}</ref> {{RT prose|{{RT data|score}}|{{RT data|average}}|{{RT data|count}}|Boasting a smart, poignant story, a classic soundtrack, and a starmaking performance from John Travolta, ''Saturday Night Fever'' ranks among the finest dramas of the 1970s.|ref=yes|access-date=October 26, 2023}} {{Metacritic film prose|77|7|ref=yes|access-date=October 26, 2023}} It was added to ''[[The New York Times]]'' "Guide to the Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made", which was published in 2004.<ref>{{Cite news | url=https://www.nytimes.com/ref/movies/1000best.html | work=The New York Times | title=The Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made | date=April 29, 2003 | access-date=May 23, 2010 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131211043539/http://www.nytimes.com/ref/movies/1000best.html | archive-date=December 11, 2013 | df=mdy-all }}</ref> In 2010, the film was selected for preservation in the United States [[National Film Registry]] by the [[Library of Congress]] as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".

Film critic [[Gene Siskel]], who would later list this as his favorite movie, praised the film: "One minute into ''Saturday Night Fever'' you know this picture is onto something, that it knows what it's talking about." He also praised John Travolta's energetic performance: "Travolta on the dance floor is like a peacock on amphetamines. He struts like crazy."<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/34591299/snf-review-energy-reality-make/|title=Energy, reality make 'Fever' dance|first=Gene|last=Siskel|work=Chicago Tribune|date=December 16, 1977|accessdate=May 20, 2022}}</ref> Siskel even bought Travolta's famous white suit from the film at a charity auction.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Ebert|first=Roger|date=March 7, 1999|url=https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/great-movie-saturday-night-fever-1977|work=[[Chicago Sun-Times]]|title=Saturday Night Fever (1977)}}</ref>

Film critic [[Pauline Kael]] wrote a gushing review of the film in ''[[The New Yorker]]'': "The way ''Saturday Night Fever'' has been directed and shot, we feel the languorous pull of the discotheque, and the gaudiness is transformed. These are among the most hypnotically beautiful pop dance scenes ever filmed ... Travolta gets so far inside the role he seems incapable of a false note; even the Brooklyn accent sounds unerring ... At its best, though, ''Saturday Night Fever'' gets at something deeply romantic: the need to move, to dance, and the need to be who you'd like to be. Nirvana is the dance; when the music stops, you return to being ordinary."<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/4110/saturday-night-fever/#articles-reviews |website=Turner Classic Movies|title=Critics' Corner – Saturday Night Fever |access-date=2013-06-06}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine | magazine=[[The New Yorker]] | first=Pauline | last=Kael | author-link=Pauline Kael | pages=59–60 | date=December 26, 1977 | title=Nirvana }}</ref>