Film Review - Blue Moon (2026)

Blue Moon is the new film by Richard Linklater and stars Ethan Hawke as Lorenz Hart a famous Broadway songwriter in 1943 who goes to his favourite bar to wait for his girlfriend Elizabeth (Margaret Qualley) as well as avoid the opening night of the Broadway Musical Okalhoma!

Blue Moon was not for me I’m afraid mainly because so much of this movie is Ethan Hawke’s character (a good actor) droning on and on and on about himself and after a while it began to resemble a 1943 version of “Old Man Yells at Cloud” but instead of that its just “Old Man Confides in his Bartender” said Bartender is played very well by Bobby Cannavale.

There are some other good performances as well, Andrew Scott as Richard Rodgers has a small role but makes it work well enough, Simon Delaney as Oscar Hammerstein is also good but his role is very small while Margaret Qualley is good as well in her role.

So yeah that was Blue Moon, it wasn’t for me I’m sorry to say, 1.5 out of 5.