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Releasing on May 3, 2024
  • 2024
  • Oscilloscope
  • 1 h 43 m
  • 2024
  • Oscilloscope
  • 1 h 43 m

Summary Wildcat invites the audience to weave in and out of celebrated Southern Gothic writer Flannery O’Connor's mind as she ponders the great questions of her writing: Can scandalous art still serve God? Does suffering precede all greatness? Can illness be a blessing? In 1950, Flannery (Maya Hawke) visits her mother Regina (Laura Linney) in Ge...

Directed By: Ethan Hawke

Written By: Shelby Gaines, Ethan Hawke

  • 2024
  • Oscilloscope
  • 1 h 43 m
  • 2024
  • Oscilloscope
  • 1 h 43 m

Wildcat

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 8 Critic Reviews
43
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Summary Wildcat invites the audience to weave in and out of celebrated Southern Gothic writer Flannery O’Connor's mind as she ponders the great questions of her writing: Can scandalous art still serve God? Does suffering precede all greatness? Can illness be a blessing? In 1950, Flannery (Maya Hawke) visits her mother Regina (Laura Linney) in Ge...

Directed By: Ethan Hawke

Written By: Shelby Gaines, Ethan Hawke

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 8 Critic Reviews
43
13% Positive
1 Review
63% Mixed
5 Reviews
25% Negative
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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 8 Critic Reviews
43
13% Positive
1 Review
63% Mixed
5 Reviews
25% Negative
2 Reviews

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67
Sep 17, 2023
Wildcat should provide interest to audiences that have read and enjoyed O’Connor’s work and might even spur new readers to seek her stories out.
By Ankit Jhunjhunwala FULL REVIEW
60
Sep 13, 2023
Ultimately, though, the combination of handsome visuals and assemblage of sketchy moments leave it feeling more like a museum piece, offering impressions over a gratifying narrative experience.
By Matt Maytum FULL REVIEW
58
Sep 14, 2023
Wildcat is too tame in its portrayal of suffering to let its Catholic undertones sing or take powerful cinematic form, resulting in a work where paradoxes are half-baked dilemmas that seem too conveniently solved, and life itself is something that happens far off-screen.
By Siddhant Adlakha FULL REVIEW
50
Sep 14, 2023
For as much care and passion that the Hawkes put into Wildcat, the film never knows what it wants to be or even what audience it wants to be speaking to.
By Nate Richard FULL REVIEW
40
Sep 13, 2023
Ethan Hawke has good taste, and his past undertakings as director have affirmed that, but the biopic’s big built-in pitfall – the psychologically facile connect-the-dots between a figure’s life and works – swallows up his perceptible esteem for O’Connor.
By Charles Bramesco FULL REVIEW
35
Sep 27, 2023
Regrettably, a gross number of missteps overshadow the Hawkes’ good intentions with this film. Even without Maya Hawke’s frumpy hag drag as O’Connor, complete with too-large dentures and an unfortunate wig, the lack of creative risk taken by the filmmakers, as well as the lack of research done by the team, sinks Wildcat before it gets started.
By Katarina Docalovich FULL REVIEW
16
Sep 15, 2023
One hopes Wildcat can disappear into thin air so that it doesn’t have to weigh on Hawke’s legacy.
By Ethan Vestby FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Good Country Pictures, Kingdom Story Company, Renovo Media Group, Under the Influence Productions
Release Date May 3, 2024
Duration 1 h 43 m
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