Hedda

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Hedda

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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

Nov 18

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.

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Christy Lemire

FilmWeek (LAist)

Nov 10

Tessa Thompson is radiant and commanding.

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Craig Mathieson

The Age (Australia)

Nov 7

4/5

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

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Samuel Leggett Jr.

JVS Media & Productions/Team JVS

Feb 26

6.5/10

Tessa Thompson is a force of nature in this reimagining of Hedda Gabler. Visually beautiful with great acting, but the pacing drags and it’s hard to connect with the characters emotionally. A film that feels cold and distant.

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David Nusair

Reel Film Reviews

Jan 21

1.5/4

...a mostly underwhelming endeavor that gets off to an almost disastrously lackluster, uninvolving start...

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Jana Monji

Age of the Geek

Jan 13

3/5

See this for the fashions and the Tessa Thompson's mesmerizing performance, but there are problems with the script and the ending disappoints.

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Katherine

Oct 25

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

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Chris R

@RT06938315 10h

Fine performances and beautiful photography weighed down by a forced melodrama and an unyieldingly dismal view of relationships. This ain't Ibsen re-imagined. It's Ibsen replaced by a neverland of "modern" ideas about life.

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Sedale S.

@sedale143 18h

Definitely an Oscar snub. Tessa Thompson could have easily been swapped in for Kate Hudson or Emma Stone for best actress. Nia DaCosta also could have been nominated for best director and best adapted screenplay. It’s a beautifully made movie and the screenplay is modernized well enough but also keeps the soul of the source material.

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Anya S

@AnyaS 4d

Awful people, awful bore. The attempt at anachronism and updating the sexuality and ethnicities doesn't work...all this intrigue over improving one's standing in academia? Good riddance, Hedda!

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Richard T

@Manpuppy Jan 29

I could get over it being dreadfully dull for the first half if any single one of the characters was at all likeable. I find it difficult to support as a feminist statement when the central women are portrayed as weak, vicious, or conniving, and those in the background are all shown as frivolous. But Ibsen, fine, whatever.

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Kevin L

@Lakeman Jan 28

Good movie, not great. Yes, Tessa Thompson gives a strong performance; and she's gorgeous. As impressive if not moreso is the wonderful Nina Hoss. Quite a role for each of them. Real fireworks between them. But a lot of the movie felt like a tease. Melodrama and drab, dull, dim male characters. I liked the dance number. Nice to mix that in at that point as the movie was getting a little stilted. But the movie didn't building moment I expected. What it does do well, though, is show w/ multiple scenes the dynamic between Hedda and Eileen, but also that between each woman and the social circles they live/work among. We see how each is thought of and treated by men: Lovborg w/ actual recognition of her intellect and work; Hedda as an object of attraction and desire, and a trophy of sorts for her husband, George. Neither woman gets the respect and acknolwedgement they should. Much of that is no doubt due to the mores of others. And neither woman seems too happy. 3.4 stars

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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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