Overview

• Critics highlight Hawke’s performance as the standout in Richard Linklater’s single-evening biopic about lyricist Lorenz Hart on the night Oklahoma! opens.
• Multiple reviews note a dialogue-heavy, chamber-style presentation set largely in a bar afterparty, calling the approach deliberately theatrical.
• Reception points to pacing issues in the first act, with praise for production design and for Andrew Scott’s turn as Richard Rodgers.
• FandomWire reports early aggregator scores of 93% on Rotten Tomatoes and 7.2 on IMDb, signaling strong initial support.
• Coverage positions the film as a potential awards-season player, with FandomWire framing it as a challenger to Dwayne Johnson’s The Smashing Machine.