Blue Moon
Sony Pictures Classics | Release Date: October 17, 2025 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
78
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 43 Critic Reviews
Positive:
37
Mixed:
6
Negative:
0

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
60
The TelegraphTim RobeyDec 12, 2025
We are never distracted for long from the gaping sadness of the man and Hawke is brilliant at portraying that despair. Read full review
60
The Irish TimesTara BradyNov 26, 2025
Richard Linklater’s Blue Moon features a luminous ensemble and arguably a career-high performance from Ethan Hawke, yet it’s hobbled by an aesthetic gamble so distracting, so patently absurd, that it nearly sinks the enterprise. Read full review
60
Little White LiesDavid JenkinsNov 26, 2025
There are points here where it feels as if Linklater was trying to make a gender-switched version of Fassbinder’s tragic The Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant, but without really leaning into the forceful bitterness and agency of the protagonist, and opting to have the text make a more profound point about the precarious nature of power and influence. Read full review
60
Rolling StoneDavid FearOct 15, 2025
Portraits of great men given the movie-star treatment usually accentuate the positive. Linklater finds it more interesting to look at a self-sabotaging artist’s greatest misses. It’s a tribute that’s really a cautionary tale. Read full review
60
The IndependentGeoffrey MacnabFeb 18, 2025
The Texan auteur’s new film – his 22nd, and the first of two due for release in this year alone – boasts a fine, quirky and courageous performance from Ethan Hawke, but it’s a stagey affair which at times becomes very stilted. Read full review
40
The TimesKevin MaherFeb 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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