This isn’t a review. You’re not supposed to review anything until right before it opens. (That’s what they’re doing with “House of Gucci” because it’s a mess.)

Anyway, last night Aaron Sorkin unveiled his “Being the Ricardos” in New York with Nicole Kidman, Nina Arianda, and JK Simmons. Co-star Javier Bardem was not in town. “Being the Ricardos” is an Amazon Studios movie, their only real entry in this year’s Oscar race. They should have no trouble getting everyone their nominations.

“BTR” is all about Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz, how they met, became TV titans. It’s no secret that this is not an episode of “I Love Lucy.” Instead, the clever screenplay addresses the making of one episode of the famed, immortal sitcom, in its second season, and everything around it. I’m not allowed to get into details yet. But suffice to say it’s a hit depending on what Amazon does with it.

The screening, which was sort of the New York premiere, was at a strange venue, Village Cinemas on Second Avenue. This is an old, drafty theater where the sound is boomy the further away you were seated. The oleaginous Cinema Society PR firm (not a society, just two people) decided it was best to put the critics in the very last row of the balcony, maybe as a challenge. The people sitting up front were kind of hasbeen models, people not in the motion picture Academy, and a miscellaneous hangers on. A number of people came and went past me in the balcony until 20 minutes into the film.

There was a Q&A after the film, which was hard to see because of the way the theater was pitched. (The last time I went there was to see “The Hateful Eight.”) But the cast is revved up. Nicole Kidman said the strangest thing was being in costume and character as Lucille Ball and talking to Lucie Arnaz, Lucy’s daughter, on set. Kidman so absorbs Lucille Ball, it will blow everyone’s minds.

The after party was at hotel that I’ve never heard of, called the Moxy, on East 11th St. There were no celebs. The stars of the movie came and went quickly. They figured it out fast. I had a nice chat with Nicole Kidman, who was masked and worried about being in a crowd. She’s had a banner year, what with “The Undoing” and “Nine Perfect Strangers” on TV. She will have an Oscar nod for “BTR.” Wait til we can talk about it more.

Stay tuned…

We thought Netflix was just not nice to the press. Turns out fans who signed for up tickets are treated just as badly at their events.

Many fans who acquired tickets through the company 1iota to the premiere of Netflix’s “Tick Tick Boom” are pretty angry and disappointed.

Writing on Twitter, they say well over 100 fans who had tickets to the premiere at the Schoenfeld Theater were turned away after being held on line for over two hours.

One fan, writing under the Twiiter account @rachrach, recalled:

Mel Gibson says he’s directing “Lethal Weapon 5.” Oh yeah?

Gibson says as reported in the Hollywood Reporter that he will direct, and that Richard Wenk, who wrote “The Equalizer,” came up with the script.

Danny Glover has represented himself as a principled person his whole career. I’ll be curious to see if he’ll be part of a movie made by a avowed Holocaust denier, an anti-Semite, and racist. Now we’ll see if Hollywood really is all about the money.

Lauren Shuler Donner is producing because her late, beloved husband, Richard Donner, has the rights to the series. Even though Donner was Jewish, he continued to stand behind Gibson despite heavy criticism. Gibson says before Donner died he told him he was working on a screenplay. Great. Hire some other actors, please. No self-respecting person is going to see Mel Gibson in “Lethal Weapon 5.”

There’s no word in the THR story if Warner Bros. is attached to this very bad idea. They released the other ones and must have the rights also. I can’t see Toby Emmerich or anyone else there supporting this plan. It will, as my friend DA Pennebaker used to say, end in tears.