Editing My Favorite Year (section)

==Reception==
''My Favorite Year'' opened in theaters on October 1, 1982, to $2,400,696 (#3, behind ''[[An Officer and a Gentlemen]]''{{'}}s 11th weekend and ''[[E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial]]''{{'}}s 18th).<ref>{{cite web |title=Weekend Box Office October 8–10, 1982 |url=http://www.boxofficemojo.com/weekend/chart/?yr=1982&wknd=41&p=.htm |website=Box Office Mojo}}</ref>

In a contemporary review for ''[[The New York Times]]'', critic [[Janet Maslin]] called ''My Favorite Year'' "a funny and good-natured comedy" and wrote that director [[Richard Benjamin]] "works in a steady, affable style that is occasionally inspired, always snappy and never less than amusing."<ref>{{Cite news |last=Maslin |first=Janet |date=1982-10-01 |title=Screen: 'Favorite Year' With Peter O'Toole |page=C10 |work=[[The New York Times]]}}</ref> On their movie review television program movie critics Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert both gave praise to ''My Favorite Year.'' Siskel called it "A wonderful little film full of big laughs and great nostalgia for TV's golden age" while Ebert, in agreement added, " It was directed by Richard Benjamin, and it was directed well. It was a very, very funny movie. The physical comedy in this movie is just as good as the verbal comedy. It's good from beginning to end."<ref>{{Cite web |title=Buried Treasures, 1986 – Siskel and Ebert Movie Reviews |url=https://siskelebert.org/?p=1264 |access-date=2023-06-26 |website=siskelebert.org}}</ref> Michael Sragow of ''Rolling Stone'' had praise for the movie's director Richard Benjamin, and its cast, saying, "Director Richard Benjamin gets the most out of the script and the actors in almost every instance; it’s refreshing to see a small-scale movie that’s full to the brim with funny people."<ref>{{Cite book |url=http://archive.org/details/rolling-stone-magazine-382-november-11-1982 |title=Rolling Stone Magazine 382 November 11 1982 |date=1982-11-11 |language=English}}</ref>

On [[Rotten Tomatoes]] the film has a 97% rating based on 30 reviews. The site's consensus states: "''My Favorite Year'' is a joyful ode to the early days of television, carried with a deft touch and Peter O'Toole's uproariously funny performance."<ref>{{rotten-tomatoes|my_favorite_year|My Favorite Year}}</ref> On [[Metacritic]] it has a score of 62% based on reviews from 14 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".<ref>{{cite web |title=My Favorite Year Reviews |url=https://www.metacritic.com/movie/my-favorite-year/ |website=[[Metacritic]] }}</ref>