movie review

BLUE MOON

Running time: 100 minutes. Rated R (language and sexual references). In theaters.

If when you hear the words “Pal Joey,” you think fondly of your friend Joseph, Richard Linklater’s new film “Blue Moon” might leave you bothered and bewildered.

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.

“Do you ever think of your entire life as a play?” Bobby Cannavale’s all-ears Sardi’s bartender asks Hart, who wrote “Pal Joey,” “Babes in Arms” and “The Boys from Syracuse” with Richard Rodgers, and is doing his darndest to not pound down whisky.

Good question. Richard Linklater has directed “Blue Moon,” from a stunn

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