Blue Moon

Name: Blue Moon
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Comedy, Romance
Released: October 17, 2025
Duration: 100 min
Rating: 78

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Sony Pictures Classics | Release Date: October 17, 2025 | R

Summary: On the evening of March 31, 1943, legendary lyricist Lorenz Hart confronts his shattered self-confidence in Sardi’s bar as his former collaborator Richard Rodgers celebrates the opening night of his ground-breaking hit musical “Oklahoma!”.

Genre(s): Biography, Drama, History, Comedy, Romance, Music

Rating: R

Runtime: 100 min

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Kyle Smith

Oct 16, 2025

Directed by his longtime friend and collaborator Richard Linklater, Mr. Hawke makes the most of what might be the year’s most brilliant screenplay, by Robert Kaplow, by delivering a Hart full of mischief and wit, desperation and self-loathing. There has never been a great book written about Hart, but at last he has this movie to renew and restore his story. Read full review

The Daily Beast Nick Schager

Sep 8, 2025

Linklater’s latest is a moving and multifaceted ode to a bygone era and an artist whose creativity and contradictions were equally titanic. Read full review

Johnny Oleksinski

Oct 20, 2025

As for Broadway buffs and lovers of old New York, the witty, hilarious and haunting movie starring a totally transformed Ethan Hawke as musical-theater lyricist Lorenz Hart will have them utterly bewitched. Read full review

IONCINEMA.com Nicholas Bell

Oct 16, 2025

Blue Moon provides us with a myriad of its own words with which to approach the essence of Lorenz Hart, who it would seem, died much too young and without a love of his own. But the lasting impression of the film and its subject is, indeed, ineffable. Read full review

Moira Macdonald

Oct 24, 2025

Linklater really nails the atmosphere here; watching Blue Moon feels like sitting with smart people in a retro bar, covered in a gentle blanket of cocktail piano. And Hawke, often surrounded by wafting symphonies of cigar smoke, gives a beautifully shaded performance, of equal parts bravado and vulnerability. Read full review

Marshall Shaffer

Feb 18, 2025

Blue Moon, like Lorenz Hart in his day, trusts that audiences want to engage with subjects that matter through deliberate dialogue. Read full review

The Times Kevin Maher

Feb 18, 2025

One of the most committed performances of Ethan Hawke’s career is cruelly undercut by some ridiculous “shrinking” tricks in this biopic about the Broadway songwriter Lorenz Hart. Read full review

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