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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Mark Kermode

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2d

I think it has great performances.

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David Sexton

New Statesman

2d

It’s a major production, backed by Steven Spielberg, that will not disappoint fans of the book or anyone who likes a really good sob.

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David Jenkins

Little White Lies

2d

5/5

While there’s definitely an anatomical study of heterosexual relationships here that sings with a modern resonance, the film’s coup de grâce frames art itself as an arcane source of mental wellbeing.

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Peter Gray

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10h

5/5

Hamnet is a film about carrying love differently after loss: how it changes shape, how it finds new vessels, how it refuses to disappear. It doesn’t ask to be admired so much as felt. And once it settles inside you, it doesn’t leave.

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Francesca Steele

iNews.co.uk

2d

5/5

While Paul Mescal's Shakespeare is delicate, Jessie Buckley gives a performance for the ages in this profoundly moving adaptation of Maggie O'Farrell's novel.

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3h

This movie is very exceptional and highly emotional for anyone who knows some Shakespeare, and Hamlet. The acting is superb, the direction is flawless, the sets are perfect: decor, buildings, furniture, clothing, everything thing in detail transports us to the 1580s, where the human condition is shown very truly, the love, abuse, diseases, pregnancies and births, the devastation of the plague, the theater setting. I think it is clear for many scenes that the director is a woman, Chloe Zhao. I am not sure there were many dry eyes in the theater. Poignant and beautiful.

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6h

Better have Oscar noms

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7h

The acting was amazing and it was so touching!

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1d

This show is riveting, the acting is superb. A beautifully directed film. Get ready to go on an emotional journey. Highly recommended.

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1d

Surpass my expectations absolutely moving, and breathtaking

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1d

Good story and acting, but very slow and boring

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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): $11.9M
Runtime: 2h 5m