Hamnet

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Hamnet

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From Academy Award® winning writer/director Chloé Zhao, HAMNET tells the powerful story of love and loss that inspired the creation of Shakespeare's timeless masterpiece, Hamlet.

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Breaking hearts and mending them in one fell swoop, Hamnet speculates on the inspiration behind Shakespeare's masterpiece with palpable emotional force thanks to Jessie Buckley and Paul Mescal's astonishing performances.

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A haunting journey through deep sorrow beautifully captured by Chloé Zhao, Hamnet will utterly crush you.

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Donald Clarke

Irish Times

2d

5/5

There is much else to admire in this beautifully shot, cruelly raw film, but, with some justification, most of the talk will be about the female lead. One can think of few other actors who can so unashamedly access such torrents of simulated emotion.

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Adam Nayman

The New Republic

Dec 12

It’s grand, it’s ambitious, and it works, maybe in spite of itself.

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Michael Ordoña

TheWrap

Dec 11

Hamnet is a technical, artistic, intellectual, and emotional feast.

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Julian Wood

FILMINK (Australia)

16h

18/20

… a finely calibrated work that will move and please audiences.

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Diane Carson

AWFJ.org

2d

Chloé Zhao imagines the death of William Shakespeare’s young son Hamnet as the catalyst for the play "Hamlet." Foregrounding delirious joy and heartbreaking grief, she dramatizes the volatile collision of ecstasy with anguish.

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Marlon Wallace

The M Report (WBOC.com)

2d

The ending is about the power of theater to reckon with difficult things, but it's not about reckoning with William's decision to leave. It's reckoning with another tragedy. That tragedy sucks up all the oxygen in the room.

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DEL

2h

Absolutely fantastic! Love the thoughtfully paced drama. Well done.

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Charles F

2h

Excellent acting demonstrated by the leads beautiful cinematography convincing story telling

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Evan

5h

10/10 Jessie Buckley gave the performance of the year

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Vincent R

15h

Beautiful and emotionally powerful

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Marsha G

17h

Didnt dislike a thing! Wonderfully acted, beautifully shot movie

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Bob B

@Sustainablebob 18h

Beautifully filmed and acted but each scene was drawn out to wring every bit of emotion. When you boil it down there’s really not a great deal of story behind the plot.

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Synopsis

From Academy Award® winning writer/director Chloé Zhao, HAMNET tells the powerful story of love and loss that inspired the creation of Shakespeare's timeless masterpiece, Hamlet.

Director: Chloé Zhao
Producer: Liza Marshall, Pippa Harris, Nicolas Gonda, Steven Spielberg, Sam Mendes
Screenwriter: Chloé Zhao, Maggie O'Farrell
Distributor: Focus Features
Production Co: Book of Shadows, Amblin Entertainment, Hera Pictures, Neal Street Productions
Rating: PG-13
Genre: Drama, Romance
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Dec 5, 2025, Wide
Box Office (Gross USA): $6.9M
Runtime: 2h 5m