[2] The film presents the life and career of Gilda Radner through her own eyes using her diaries, audio tapes, home movies and interviewing some of her closest friends at that time.

[4] David Fear from Rolling Stone however gave the film two and a half stars out of five, stating: "In terms of both professional best-of moments and personal artifacts (home movies, old pics, those journals and cassette recordings), the filmmaker has a treasure trove at her fingertips; she just doesn't seem to know how to shape much of it, or how to mine it for more than checkpoints and pop-psychological carping about comedy and pain.

"[5] Matt Zoller Seitz writing for the website RogerEbert.com gave Love, Gilda three out of four stars and said: "Director Lisa D'Apolito's documentary is at its best detailing Radner's struggle to make her voice heard in a field that she adored, but that wasn't often hospitable to women, even when the individual men in it thought they were being gracious and inclusive.

"[6] Jason Zinoman from The New York Times called the film "a portrait of a brief and brilliant career" and completed: "Where the movie succeeds best is as an illumination of her charm and spirit.

Ms. Radner played eccentric characters with raucous abandon and jangly big-kid physicality, but she also projected a vulnerability that made you care for them.