Hamlet
Directed by Aneil Karia
When Hamlet returns for his father’s funeral, he is stunned to discover his uncle Claudius is marrying his newly widowed mother. Visited by his father’s ghost, Hamlet learns his brutal murder was at the hands of Claudius and spirals into a quest for vengeance that exposes the rot at the heart of the family’s empire and threatens his own sanity. From TMDB
252 reactions from 4 sources (Bluesky, Lemmy, Mastodon, TMDB reviews) · newest Oct 16, 2026 · last updated Oct 16, 2026 · How this works
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On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 71% of 105 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 6.5/10. The website's consensus reads: "Fueled by Riz Ahmed's electrifying turn, this gritty, streamlined Hamlet boldly reimagines the classic tragedy with ferocious emotion and intent." Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 61 out of 100, based on 22 critics, indicating "generally favorable" reviews.
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60 of 252 · most liked firstToday I learned that, much as The Lion King is based on Hamlet, The Lion King 1½ (which is the third Lion King movie) is based on Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead????????
neutral · AI labelView post →I do not recognise the right of the Mufasa film to exist. Hamlet does not need a prequel.
negative · AI labelView post →Exclusive poster for ‘HAMLET’, starring Riz Ahmed and Morfydd Clark. The film follows the classic Hamlet story reimagined in a modern setting within London’s elite South Asian community. In theaters on April 10.
neutral · AI labelView post →I would buy the Duke Nukem IP and then immediately make it public domain. I'd also make the fake Hamlet from Last Action Hero a real film
neutral · AI labelView post →for people who are never going to play a game but are interested to understand a bit about what games culture is like, I can highly recommend the film Grand Theft Hamlet, about two out-of-work actors during the lockdowns trying to stage a production of Hamlet inside the game Grand Theft Auto
positive · AI labelView post →Finally watched F1 last night and damn, that might be the dumbest movie I’ve seen in a long while. Makes Days of Thunder seem like Hamlet. Amazing racing scenes though.
neutral · AI labelView post →"Sorry Liz, I can't stay late, I'm in a production of Hamnet" "Hamlet? By Shakespeare?" "HamNet by Chloé Zao. She did that superhero movie about how hiroshima was blown up by the gays. Oppenheimer."
neutral · AI labelView post →now, the ideal here would be a kind of "Hamlet" / "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead" situation, where we have a Hallmark movie set at a cat cafe, and then a second movie from the cat's point of view which is a totally different genre, like maybe to them this is all a psychological thriller
neutral · AI labelView post →Riz Ahmed guesses which film in his filmography has been four favorited by Letterboxd members the most 🎤 His latest film Hamlet is now in select US theaters.
neutral · AI labelView post →Four Favorites with Riz Ahmed at the 2026 EE BAFTA Film Awards ✨ Ahmed stars in Hamlet, in theaters April 10, from Vertical.
neutral · AI labelView post →Not only did I meet Richard, but I worked with him on the film of Ken Branagh’s Hamlet. He was Polonius, whilst I played Guildenstern. A finer fellow you would have to go a long way to meet. He was both hugely talented AND funny… a delightful chap. 🙌
neutral · AI labelView post →A Hamlet movie where John Cena and Dave Bautista are Rosencrantz and Guildenstern
neutral · AI labelView post →I had to look up Grand Theft Hamlet and it is actually a movie - just, yk, not a Lynch movie. It's ... wait for this ... a documentary. "Two struggling actors find solace from lockdown isolation by staging Hamlet in Grand Theft Auto Online"
neutral · AI labelView post →The late Tom Stoppard adapted his own play in 1990, with Gary Oldman, Tim Roth and Richard Dreyfuss playing minor characters from Shakespeare's Hamlet. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead faithfully records brilliant dialogue and wild, original ideas. 4 out of 5 film-authority.com/2026/06/12/r...
neutral · AI labelView post →Spawn is the last film role of Nicol Williamson, “the Hamlet of his generation”
neutral · AI labelView post →Tonight's viewing: GRAND THEFT HAMLET, a documentary (filmed entirely in-game) about a group of actors staging a production of Hamlet entirely within GTA Online, with entirely a cast of friends and random players they met online. I could not think of a better movie to watch today. I CRIED.
positive · AI labelView post →I think it's really embarrassing all these so-called film-fans and critics keep on spelling it with an "n". The word is "Hamlet", guys.
neutral · AI labelView post →“Grand Theft Hamlet” is notionally a documentary, but you can think of it “more as a crucible in which the solid forms of film, theatre, and video games have been stirred until they melt,” Anthony Lane writes.
neutral · AI labelView post →I think The Northman also gets unnecessarily classed as a difficult movie because of all the weird shit and the Hamlet structure. But it's not hard to understand. It's about hating a guy with your whole life.
neutral · AI labelView post →Sam inspired art from a Russian film version of Hamlet. I just loved the cinematography in this scene.
neutral · AI labelView post →"If I played Hamlet, they'd call it a horror film." -Peter Cushing #BOTD
neutral · AI labelView post →Moody poster advertising Claude Chabrol's 1963 film 'Ophelia' in which the main protagonist becomes obsessed with the character of Hamlet. #phantomsfriday
neutral · AI labelView post →This gave me chills, and my chills never steer me wrong. Riz Ahmed in a modern Hamlet movie, out Feb 6 youtu.be/TXTA2CUWmsE?...
positive · AI labelView post →The - very enjoyable - film version of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern was on Prime recently so go check if it’s still there if you’ve got a subscription. Imagine Tim Roth and Gary Oldman as Laurel and Hardy trapped in a Beckettian farce in the middle of Hamlet. A great great film of a great great play
positive · AI labelView post →Free random movie recommendation: Hamlet 2, now on HBO Max. Coogan should’ve gotten so many more American roles.
positive · AI labelView post →This week in film 🎞️: • Visually stunning — highlight: the last scene of Hamlet • I’ll watch anything with Julie Walters in it • A beauty of a film — fan of Paolo Sorrentino’s work ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ • Wowza — Took me way too long to view this masterpiece #letterboxdfriday #lastfourwatched #filmsky
positive · AI labelView post →You used to could make a movie and say "this is based on Hamlet" and people would say "of course." You'd say "it's not literally adapting Hamlet but it's still Hamlet" and they would say "that makes sense."
neutral · AI labelView post →Jean Simmons in costume as Ophelia for Laurence Olivier’s acclaimed film version of Hamlet (1948). The performance earned the nineteen-year-old an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress. #botd
neutral · AI labelView post →Having cast a movie, I have a theory of casting: actors play a version of themselves in every movie. It makes casting simultaneously easier and harder: nobody expects The Rock to play Hamlet, for example. Michael B Jordan plays himself in every role. He’s good at it. So does everyone these days.
neutral · AI labelView post →Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead (1990) Writer/director Tom Stoppard's first-rate film adaptation of his own absurdist play about two minor characters from Hamlet Starring Gary Oldman and Tim Roth
neutral · AI labelView post →Add a food to a movie name Green Eggs & Hamlet
neutral · AI labelView post →Grand Theft Hamlet's high art vs. low art mentality and the misguided belief that this is some new idea (doing theater inside of a game) leave a bad taste in my mouth. Online games and theater are both places of communal power, the film fails to celebrate that. www.digitaltrends.com/movies/grand...
negative · AI labelView post →Ok but Hamlet recontextualized as a stoner movie would fuck
neutral · AI labelView post →Tuesday movie: Hamlet (1996) *****
positive · AI labelView post →Last Action Hero. It's portal fantasy by way of action movie satire that is also structured around Hamlet. It's goofy and fun and then periodically pauses for an instant to go "this is kinda fucked up!" There's a cartoon cat cop in two scenes for the sake of a single joke.
neutral · AI labelView post →This movie is a cornerstone of my childhood. It introduced me to Hamlet, VCR technology (the frame advance button in particular to discover Tim Horton’s Donuts is where they got the jelly), and a lifelong love of High Canadian Content media. I recommend it to one and all.
positive · AI labelView post →Since it was a novel first, wouldn't that make this an adaptation? Like, you wouldn't call a new film production of Hamlet a "remake," would you?
neutral · AI labelView post →Omg this is the first film that came to my mind! It's "Hamlet", but with beer and Canadians....
positive · AI labelView post →Random game Saturday! It's Kenneth Branagh's William Shakespeare's Hamlet: A Murder Mystery! Based on and using footage of the 1996 film, I'm planning to do a big video on this early next year, because there's gotta be one hell of a story here.
neutral · AI labelView post →weird how Hamlet got so strongly associated with the Lion King to the point where the sequel is marketed as Romeo and Juliet and Timon/Pumba's movie an homage to Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead because, like, the Lion King has absolutely no parallels to Hamlet other than uncle killed dad
neutral · AI labelView post →Grand Theft Hamlet - a film made entirely in-game in GTA V, about trying to recreate Hamlet during the 2020 COVID lockdowns - is coming to US theatres on January 17. (Read more: IGN)
neutral · AI labelView post →I am watching the version of Hamlet where he's played by 84 year old Ian McKellan, his dead dad is a 50 year old woman, Laertes is a black woman in her 30s, Ophelia's a folk musican and the whole thing is filmed in a theatre. Like, the building. Not the stage. www.youtube.com/watch?v=qka_...
neutral · AI labelView post →Just to be clear: the new Wuthering Heights supposedly doesn’t have anyone playing Lockwood? Are we going to make movies of The Great Gatsby without Nick Carraway? The Ten Commandments without Moses? Are we just going to film a new Hamlet without Hamlet? Is this a game like Garfield without Garfield
neutral · AI labelView post →Laurence Olivier as Hamlet and Eileen Herlie as Hamlet's mother Gertrude in the 1948 film. Olivier was 40 years old during filming, while Eileen Herlie was 29 years old. This made the actress playing his mother 11 years younger than him.
neutral · AI labelView post →Started writing a full script about the Riz Ahmed Hamlet. Look, I took Shakespare on Film at uni, I'm very nerdy about this.
neutral · AI labelView post →I had a friend who thought The Lion King was a bad movie because "I've seen Hamlet." Yes, it's a riff on Hamlet. Just because you know the basic structure is similar to another film doesn't make it a bad movie. I blame TV Tropes for this sort of "criticism."
neutral · AI labelView post →Did you ever see the doc 'Grand Theft Hamlet', Joel? Not related to your pitch, but a really cool film about the social potential of the franchise: youtu.be/MLpGIHjwhNE?...
neutral · AI labelView post →Branagh's Hamlet is an adaptation of the unabridged text of the play and only 17 minutes longer than the new Avengers movie.
neutral · AI labelView post →i told someone about this dream and they reminded me about the 2000 Hamlet movie where Ethan Hawke does the To Be or Not To Be soliloquy inside a Blockbuster,,, gagged
neutral · AI labelView post →Saturday movie: Hamlet (1913) ***½
positive · AI labelView post →LAURENCE OLIVIER — born 119yrs ago today — behind the camera directing the movie version of Shakespeare’s most famous Play, which would go on to earn him the Best Actor & Best Picture Oscars. HAMLET (1948)
neutral · AI labelView post →Saturday movie: Hamlet (1964) ****
positive · AI labelView post →Yes, that monkey movie reminds you of an old MST3K episode because they're both based on the same damn Stephen King story. Wait til you notice how much that Hamlet movie they did ripped off The Lion King, that'll really blow your mind.
neutral · AI labelView post →There is a new film version of Hamlet coming out. Thanks to four months of nonstop Hamnet publicity, every time I get a new email about it, my first reaction is “Wow, they missed the typo in the title of their film!”
neutral · AI labelView post →Now cracks a noble heart (throb). Jeffrey Paul Whitman as Horatio in *a HAMLET in progress,* the movie.
neutral · AI labelView post →What do you MEAN Joe Alwyn is starring in a film with a plot about love and loss that suggests the story was the foundation for ‘Hamlet’? 🎭 ‘HAMLET’ 🗣️
neutral · AI labelView post →#NowWatching HAMLET (1948). Director: Laurence Olivier. Laurence Olivier, Jean Simmons. In its day, set Shakespearean standard for excellence, winning Oscars for Best Picture & Best Actor (Olivier also up for Director). I remember it being a bit too mannered, but let's check it out. #filmsky 📽
neutral · AI labelView post →1000 monkeys with 1000 movie cameras shooting a version of Hamlet that takes place in modern times
neutral · AI labelView post →Here's the trailer for GRAND THEFT HAMLET, a documentary about two out-of-work actors who attempted to stage the entirety of Hamlet in Grand Theft Auto Online:
neutral · AI labelView post →#NowWatching HAMLET (2025). Director: Aneil Karia. Riz Ahmed, Morfydd Clark. Shakespeare's text is utilized in this modern tale set amidst London's South Asian community. Get it, Riz! #filmsky 📽
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