Critics are over the moon for Richard Linklater’s new film, Blue Moon. The biopic, about lyricist Lorenz Hart, options Ethan Hawke and Margaret Qualley in lead roles and is about for a theatrical launch this Friday, October 17.
Now, forward of theatrical launch, Blue Moon has debuted with a 93% rating on Rotten Tomatoes from critics. The film has 57 critiques on the time of writing, so its rating might fluctuate as extra are printed. Its viewers rating also needs to start to take form as soon as it releases in theaters.
From the five-time Oscar-nominated filmmaker, Richard Linklater (Earlier than Sundown, Boyhood), with a script written by Robert Kaplow, the movie follows songwriter Lorenz Hart (performed by Ethan Hawke) as he appears again on his life in the course of the opening night time of Oklahoma!, the newest musical from his former collaborator Richard Rodgers (performed by Andrew Scott), happening principally in a bar.
Along with four-time Oscar nominee Ethan Hawke (Coaching Day, Boyhood) and three-time Emmy nominee Andrew Scott (Black Mirror, Ripley), the solid additionally contains two-time Emmy nominee Margaret Qualley (Fosse/Verdon, Maid), two-time Emmy winner Bobby Cannavale (Will & Grace, Boardwalk Empire), Simon Delaney, and Patrick Kennedy.
Blue Moon premiered on the 2025 Berlin Worldwide Movie Competition this previous February, the place Andrew Scott received the Silver Bear for Finest Supporting Efficiency. Normal audiences will quickly be capable to see the movie, because it’s set for a theatrical launch in the US on October 17.
With a 93% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, the film is receiving overwhelmingly optimistic critiques from critics. In ScreenRant‘s Blue Moon evaluate, Rachel Labonte writes, “After a shaky begin, Richard Linklater’s biopic pulls off one thing exceptional… Blue Moon, centered on lyricist Lorenz Hart, will get off to a grueling begin, however later comes collectively for one thing heartfelt.”
In any other case, most critics are swooning over Blue Moon, hailing it as one among Richard Linklater’s most intimate and emotionally layered works but. They’re praising Ethan Hawke’s transformative flip as Lorenz Hart, calling it a career-defining efficiency, humorous, fragile, and deeply human. The movie’s single-location and dialogue-driven type is seen as a lyrical meditation on artwork, friendship, and melancholy, elevated by Linklater’s regular route and Robert Kaplow’s witty script.
A number of reviewers, although, discovered Blue Moon too talky or theatrical for its personal good, arguing that it generally feels too stage-bound or self-indulgent. But even dissenters admit that Hawke’s efficiency is magnetic, and that the movie’s compassion for its flawed topic is simple. General, critics agree that Linklater delivers a poignant and poetic character examine that glows like its title – uncommon, wistful, and fantastically blue.
- Launch Date
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October 17, 2025
- Runtime
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90 minutes
- Writers
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Robert Kaplow
- Producers
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John Sloss, Mike Blizzard
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Margaret Qualley
Elizabeth Weiland
