Hamnet
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Hamnet (2025)

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7.8
5 platform(s) · 7 ratings 192,517 votes
7.8/10 60,342 votes Synced 2026-09-12
7.8/10 130,289 votes Synced 2026-08-20
Audience 7.7/10 276 votes Synced 2026-07-22
Critics 8.4/10 Synced 2026-07-22
Audience 9.3/10 Synced 2026-07-22
Critics 8.7/10 Synced 2026-07-22
7.7/10 1,610 votes Synced 2026-09-18

External reviews

Phil de Semlyen · Time Out 100.00/100.00

Like Nomadland, another film that maps out rocky terrain with impressionistic grace, Hamnet is a deep-felt ode to loss and resilience. Zhao doesn’t just tell you about the healing power of art, she shows you. Prepare your tear ducts accordingly.

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Kevin Maher · The Times 100.00/100.00

The ending, set in the Globe during a production of Hamlet, is harrowing, meaningful and magnificently sad. You might want to yell out, “Make it stop!” This is, instantly, the essential Shakespeare movie.

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Robbie Collin · The Telegraph 100.00/100.00

What Hamnet leaves you with isn’t sadness, but joy – at the human capacity to reckon with death’s implacability through art, or love, or just the basic act of carrying-on in its defiance. It blows you back on to the street on a gust of pure exhilaration.

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Audrey Fox · Looper 100.00/100.00

A thoughtful meditation on love and grief, Hamnet features career-best performances from Paul Mescal and Jessie Buckley, and is Zhao's most intimate work to date.

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Rachel LaBonte · Screen Rant 100.00/100.00

With an aching heart, lush visuals, and magnetic acting, Hamnet is undoubtedly one of the best movies of the year and will continue to resonate with audiences for years to come.

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Johnny Oleksinski · New York Post 100.00/100.00

It’s Buckley who’s giving one of those rare turns that simply beggars belief. She swings back and forth from cast iron to porcelain. The actress is thunderous, playful, grounded and ethereal. She breaks your heart — not only when the worst befalls Agnes, but whenever she cracks a smile.

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David Fear · Rolling Stone 100.00/100.00

Hamnet has managed to make the lines “goodnight, sweet prince” somehow sting more than ever, but it leaves you in a state of emotional bliss.

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Dan Mecca · The Film Stage 100.00/100.00

The film serves as a lovely reminder of why art is important, how watching something can make you feel, make you understand, make you consider.

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Bilge Ebiri · New York Magazine (Vulture) 100.00/100.00

Hamnet is devastating, maybe the most emotionally shattering movie I’ve seen in years.

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Peter Debruge · Variety 100.00/100.00

Ultimately, the filmmaker invites the world to feel loss in a new way, and in letting go, liberates something fundamental in all of us.

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