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Viewers praise the film as emotionally devastating and beautifully crafted. [1][2][3] Some find the title and premise difficult to take seriously. [4][5][6] The performances, especially Jessie Buckley's, are widely acclaimed. [7][8][9]
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William Shakespeare is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language, though there’s some disagreement about whether he actually wrote the materials attributed to him. Even sketchier than this are some of the details about his personal life, aspects of his character that have been the subject of much conjecture, especially where they may have influenced his literary undertakings. And an examination …
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Maggie O’Farrell said at this screening that adapting her novel for the screen was akin to watching the sand flow through an hour glass. She started with something extensive, whittled it down to 90-odd pages and then gave it to a director (Chloé Zhao) who frilled it all out again to make a couple of hours for the screen that is somewhat different from the original. I reckon that’s the perfect way to describe just …
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Atmospheric, heartwrenching, and dark. This is not 'Shakespeare in Love'. This is the tragedy of the bard, even though we know that historically he was not quite that good of a husband to his wife. The movie is more about the indominability of spirit of Anna and the sorrows she faced in her life, with her children, family, strife and death. The movie is beautiful, dark and soulcrushing, in a way. The casting is …
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FULL SPOILER-FREE REVIEW @ https://fandomwire.com/hamnet-review/ "Hamnet is a true work of art that, despite its slow march and some more challenging moments for the uninitiated, rewards perseverance. It's a film about how pain destroys, but also about the miracle of how art can serve as a vessel for redemption or, at least, for understanding. Chloé Zhao took an empty space in history — the life of a forgotten woman …
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Saw Hamnet today. Best film as well as the most devastating emotionally in years. Even after leaving the theater, I felt like I was going to start crying. Again. I have no idea who else will get nominated, but I can’t fathom l a performance out there that can top Jessie Buckley’s.
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Critics, per Wikipedia
On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 86% of 353 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 8.3/10. The website's consensus reads: "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." Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 84 out of 100, based on 54 critics, indicating "universal acclaim". Buckley's performance in particular was widely praised. David Fear of Rolling Stone opined that people "will be talking about Jessie Buckley's performance for years". Screen…
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60 of 288 · most liked firstSaw Hamnet today. Best film as well as the most devastating emotionally in years. Even after leaving the theater, I felt like I was going to start crying. Again. I have no idea who else will get nominated, but I can’t fathom l a performance out there that can top Jessie Buckley’s.
positive · AI labelView post →Paul Thomas Anderson’s ragtag revolutionary saga “One Battle After Another” took top honors at the 83rd Golden Globes in the comedy category, while Chloe Zhao's Shakespeare drama “Hamnet” upset “Sinners” to win best film, drama.
neutral · AI labelView post →Sentimental Value is the best film I’ve seen this year but I haven’t seen One Battle After another yet. Hamnet is also very good, and Brendan Fraser is great in Rental Family. Seeing Marty Supreme tonight.
positive · AI labelView post →Oh my goodness! I absolutely loved Hamnet. But, wooooh, the stuff around Hamnet's death was hard. I came close to having to leave the cinema - Agnes's raw grief at her son's death was very close to home. But what a wonderful film. And how clever that child/young adult Hamnet were played by brothers.
positive · AI labelView post →Hamnet is a superb film that shouldn't need defending, but apparently it does, so I'll just say that I can't count the number of Oscar seasons in which a movie labeled as "soft" or "manipulative" is attacked bc it putatively threatens the chances of a NOT-soft film that is at least as manipulative.
positive · AI labelView post →I’m sorry, I know it’s supposed to be a very serious and good movie but I can’t read “Hamnet” without picturing a “Muppet Show” parody of “Dragnet” where all the characters are pigs.
negative · AI labelView post →Well, over the past 50 hours, I’ve read Hamnet and then watched it. (I’ll have to wait until March for the play, at Shakespeare.) Yeah, they did it. Maggie O'Farrell and, on the movie, Chloé Zhao and O’Farrell crafted an immensely moving story that differs in key ways, almost all successfully so.
positive · AI labelView post →First poster for Chloe Zhao's ‘HAMNET’, starring Paul Mescal & Jessie Buckley The film follows William Shakespeare and his wife, Anne Hathaway, as they struggle to come to terms with the loss of their only son, Hamnet.
neutral · AI labelView post →I’ll be fine. 😭 Hamnet is of the most beautifully devastating movies I’ve seen in years. Deserving of so many awards, but Jessie Buckley will definitely be sweeping Best Actress this year, as she kept my tears flowing throughout the entire second half. Paul Mescal is brilliant as well. #FilmSky
positive · AI labelView post →The American Film Institute has chosen their Top 10 Films of 2025: Avatar: Fire and Ash Bugonia Frankenstein Hamnet Jay Kelly Marty Supreme One Battle After Another Sinners Train Dreams Wicked: For Good Special Award: It Was Just An Accident
neutral · AI labelView post →I loved a LOT of these movies this year. I kept trying to pick my Best Picture vote and then was like fuck it I don’t have to choose. Sinners kicked my ass. OBAA kicked my ass. Hamnet REALLY kicked my ass. Good movie year
positive · AI labelView post →You can’t call a movie HAMNET. I don’t care if that was the kid’s name. You just can’t call a movie HAMNET. You can’t ask people to ask for a ticket to see something called HAMNET.
negative · AI labelView post →I wrote something--4000 words' worth of something!--for the Yale Review about Hamnet the book, Hamnet the movie, & the riddle of representing Shakespeare's life on the page & on the screen.
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 →The first teaser trailer for Chloé Zhao’s Hamnet starring Jessie Buckley and Paul Mescal is here 👀 The film will be released in select theaters on November 27, with a wider release on December 12 via Focus Features.
neutral · AI labelView post →Jessie Buckley has won Best Actress in a Film - Drama for ‘HAMNET’ at the Golden Globes See the full winners list: bit.ly/GlobeWins26
neutral · AI labelView post →The winners at this year’s #EEBAFTAs 🏆 Hamnet — Outstanding British Film
neutral · AI labelView post →my movie reviews: The Odyssey: a trip Hamnet: no holds Bard Anaconda: don’t want none The RIP: im torn Mercy: no The Accountant 2: taxing F1: sorry, but it’s the Pitt Melania:
neutral · AI labelView post →Buckley has been nominated for a best actress Oscar for her portrayal of William Shakespeare's wife in Hamnet. The film "brought me into this next chapter of my life as a mother," Buckley says. n.pr/4r9eq0i
neutral · AI labelView post →You must pay attention to your dreams (...) They will always guide you. Movie: Hamnet (2025) Director: Chloé Zhao 🌸 🌸 🌸 🦋 🍃 🌱 💙 ☁️ ☁️ Beautiful sky ☁️ 💙 with beauty 🌸 🌸 🍃 (Photo by Kirpal)
positive · AI labelView post →Noah Jupe gushes over his little brother Jacobi's performance in Hamnet while the pair talk about making the film. Hamnet is nominated for eight Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Casting.
neutral · AI labelView post →Trying to debate what movie to watch tonight, help me. -Eternity -It Was Just an Accident -Sentimental Value -Hamnet What do yall think? Must be one of these 4 cause I got screeners.
neutral · AI labelView post →HAMNET: Sharing a movie with a room full of strangers is my favorite drug no matter what. Sharing a movie with a room full of strangers having a mental breakdown? Straight in my veins. My beloved Jessie Buckley getting a standing ovation at #MVFF opening night.
positive · AI labelView post →Jessie Buckley won the Golden Globe for best female actor in a drama film for her performance in “Hamnet.” Catch up on highlights from the #GoldenGlobes : bit.ly/4bdki4z
neutral · AI labelView post →Saw HAMNET last night, the latest film from Chloe Zhao, an adaptation of the novel by Maggie O’Farrell about the death of Shakespeare’s son. Absolutely extraordinary. Can’t stop thinking about it. Whole theater was wrecked in a beautiful way. It’s out in November.
positive · AI labelView post →Hamnet is a movie about trying to find ham on the net
negative · AI labelView post →There’s a movie called HAMNET? NIGHT HAM IS UPON US
negative · AI labelView post →ICYMI, Walter Chaw (@mangiotto.bsky.social) on HAMNET from Telluride. filmfreakcentral.net/2025/09/tell...
neutral · AI labelView post →Delighted to join so many talented people at the BFI London Film Festival for the UK premiere of Hamnet, my film festival gala. A moving story of love and loss, with scenes filmed right here in London. We can all be proud that London's film industry is a global success story.
neutral · AI labelView post →Hamnet is incredible. Haters just mad that even after all this time they can’t outdo the Bard! Def my second fav movie after Sinners
positive · AI labelView post →Hamnet star Bodhi Rae Breathnach has joined the cast of WERWULF from director Robert Eggers. She joins Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Lily-Rose Depp, Willem Dafoe, and Ralph Ineson in the medieval werewolf horror movie. Releasing Christmas Day 2026.
neutral · AI labelView post →Saw Hamnet with my mom this week & towards the end of the movie she wordlessly passed me a tissue because we were both silently weeping. I read the book in the early pandemic days & the movie was just as devastating. But also I think this video of the cast dancing to Rihanna might have healed me.
positive · AI labelView post →Saw a review entitled “Is Hamnet just highly effective grief porn” and…that’s a sad movie, you described a sad movie right there.
neutral · AI labelView post →They keep trying to convince me there’s a movie called “Hamnet”, nice try
negative · AI labelView post →This year’s record-breaking BFI London Film Festival proves once again why it’s one of the world’s best celebrations of cinema. Delighted to see Chloé Zhao’s film Hamnet, which premiered at my Mayor’s Film Gala, has won the Audience Award for Best Feature Film.
neutral · AI labelView post →In honor of Jessie Buckley's Best Actress win--richly deserved, even if I didn't love Hamnet the movie--I'm recirculating this piece about Shakespeare biography onscreen & on the page, the fruit of over a year spent reading versions of the Bard's life.
negative · AI labelView post →Hamnet review – Paul Mescal and Jessie Buckley beguile and captivate in audacious Shakespearean tragedy
neutral · AI labelView post →Tonight. Great film #cinema #hamnet #ChloeZhao #JessieBuckley #PaulMescal
positive · AI labelView post →Nominees for Best Drama Film at this year's #GoldenGlobes: Frankenstein Hamnet It Was Just An Accident The Secret Agent Sentimental Value Sinners
neutral · AI labelView post →‘Hamnet,’ the film Rolling Stone called “the most shattering” of 2025, broke through expectations to win the #GoldenGlobe for Best Motion Picture, Drama tonight. 🏆 www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv...
neutral · AI labelView post →Controversial post: Was I supposed to like Hamnet? I mean, I suppose watching attractive people cry for like 45 minutes of a 2-hour movie is someone's fetish. But grief porn is not for me.
negative · AI labelView post →Nominees for Best Actress in a Drama film at this year's #GoldenGlobes: Jessie Buckley - Hamnet Jennifer Lawrence - Die My Love Renate Reinsve - Sentimental Value Julia Roberts - After The Hunt Tessa Thompson - Hedda Eva Victor - Sorry, Baby
neutral · AI labelView post →HAMNET (2025) Streaming: February 3, 2026 PVOD (Apple, Amazon, Fandango at Home, etc.) #Hamnet whentostream.com/hamnet-digit...
neutral · AI labelView post →Hamnet: a film that prompts strong opinions, and also strong opinions about those whose strong opinions about the film are different to yours.
neutral · AI labelView post →Hamnet lowkey a pretty good autism movie (from a neurodivergent director no less).
positive · AI labelView post →Steven Spielberg made a surprise appearance at the London Film Festival to introduce Chloé Zhao’s ‘HAMNET’ “I really believe that when you see ‘Hamnet,’ you’ll be able to feel the seismic heartbeat of the earth because of Chloé Zhao.”
neutral · AI labelView post →Jessie Buckley Wins Best Actress Oscar for ‘Hamnet’. Jessie Buckley won the Oscar for Best Actress for her performance in 'Hamnet.'
neutral · AI labelView post →Chloe Zhao's drama "Hamnet" has won the People's Choice Award at the Toronto International Film Festival.
neutral · AI labelView post →My review of Hamnet: ever see a movie and you can’t talk about it with your friend afterwards because you both just start crying again?
positive · AI labelView post →Telluride Film #4: HAMNET. Hooboy.
neutral · AI labelView post →In Toronto, to promote the movie Hamnet, they're giving out hams in net binding. Hams in nets. An idea so bad it's circled round to unmockable
negative · AI labelView post →Chloe Zhao’s ‘HAMNET’ has won the Audience Award at the following festivals: • Toronto International Film Festival • San Diego International Film Festival • Virginia Film Festival • Mill Valley Film Festival • Middleburg Film Festival
neutral · AI labelView post →Good for "Hamnet," a great movie.
positive · AI labelView post →Wow @mangiotto.bsky.social’s review of HAMNET is one of the most vicious takedowns I’ve ever read for any film. And yet? No lies detected. filmfreakcentral.net/2025/09/tell...
negative · AI labelView post →Chloé Zhao’s ‘HAMNET’ has won the Audience Choice Gala Award at the San Diego International Film Festival.
neutral · AI labelView post →First movie of the year: HAMNET (2025). Absolutely fantastic. No notes. Great adaptation, great movie in its own right. Bloody hell, that was emotionally engaging.
positive · AI labelView post →Chloé Zhao’s ‘HAMNET’ is being praised in rave first reactions out of Telluride Film Festival. Starring Jessie Buckley and Paul Mescal as Agnes & William Shakespeare.
neutral · AI labelView post →Can a movie become brilliant in its last five minutes? Hamnet suggests yes
positive · AI labelView post →Chloé Zhao’s ‘HAMNET’ will screen at the 2025 Toronto International Film Festival. Starring Jessie Buckley, Paul Mescal & Joe Alwyn.
neutral · AI labelView post →Hamnet has become a movie I can’t think about in public (complimentary).
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