Hedda

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Hedda

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Oct 2025

1h 47m

Drama

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From writer/director Nia DaCosta comes a provocative, modern reimagining of Henrik Ibsen's classic play. HEDDA (Tessa Thompson) finds herself torn between the lingering ache of a past love and the quiet suffocation of her present life. Over the course of one charged night, long-repressed desires and hidden tensions erupt--pulling her and everyone around her into a spiral of manipulation, passion, and betrayal.

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Reveling in Tessa Thompson's commanding turn as Hedda, Nia DaCosta's smoldering update on Henrik Ibsen's seminal play locates a bracingly contemporary pulse within a classic text.

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Daniella Mazzio

Chicago Reader

Let’s get this out of the way: Hedda is a good time. Without sacrificing depth, DaCosta really revels in the salacious mess of people manipulating one another over the course of a lavish party.

Nov 18, 2025

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Christy Lemire

FilmWeek (LAist)

Tessa Thompson is radiant and commanding.

Nov 10, 2025

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Craig Mathieson

The Age (Australia)

The machinations, like the camera’s movement, are elegant.

Rated: 4/5

Nov 7, 2025

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Margot Harrison

Seven Days (VT)

DaCosta has adapted the source material with care, weaving in new characters and updated concerns while keeping the dialogue sharp and period-appropriate.

Rated: 4.5/5

Dec 2, 2025

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Joe Lipsett

Anatomy of a Scream Podcast Network

Starring a dazzling Tessa Thompson and a commanding Nina Hoss, this 1950-set all-in-one-night film race & queer swaps characters to breathe new life into the material. Proof that we should leave DaCosta alone so she can make art

Rated: 4/5

Dec 1, 2025

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Diane Carson

AWFJ.org

Writer/director Nia DaCosta undertakes the daunting challenge of radically reimagining Henri Ibsen’s iconic play of Hedda Gabler’s restrictive, resented life in 19th century Norway altering the power dynamics through racial and sexual transformations.

Nov 29, 2025

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Katherine

needed more context! i wanted more! i needed more queer-coded moments.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

11/26/25

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M L

good acting... sooooooo boring story !!

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

11/30/25

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Alexis W.

This had potential to be brilliant but in the end was very disappointing. I don’t see how it attained any good reviews.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

11/26/25

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Dean N

Awful film. Boring. How did they get this made? Thompson is pretty but not a leading actress i want to watch

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

11/23/25

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Warren G.

Seemed all artifice. No Character types displayed. No exploration of depth of character

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

11/22/25

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Jonathan P. M

A sumptuous, genre-defiant adaptation that blends Ibsen’s text with Nia Dacosta’s maximalist flair, ‘Hedda’ is a masterclass in controlled chaos — and Tessa Thompson is its magnetic center. This adaptation doesn’t just update a classic; it detonates it with elegance.

Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars

11/21/25

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From writer/director Nia DaCosta comes a provocative, modern reimagining of Henrik Ibsen's classic play. HEDDA (Tessa Thompson) finds herself torn between the lingering ache of a past love and the quiet suffocation of her present life. Over the course of one charged night, long-repressed desires and hidden tensions erupt--pulling her and everyone around her into a spiral of manipulation, passion, and betrayal.

Director: Nia DaCosta
Producer: Nia DaCosta, Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, Gabrielle Nadig, Tessa Thompson
Screenwriter: Nia DaCosta
Distributor: Amazon MGM Studios
Production Co: Orion Pictures, Plan B Entertainment
Rating: R (Language|Drug Use|Brief Nudity|Sexual Content)
Genre: Drama
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Oct 22, 2025, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Oct 29, 2025
Box Office (Gross USA): $6.7K
Runtime: 1h 47m

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