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Hamnet
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- How they landed
- they all agreed2 critics, 86 to 92
- What they said
Devastating, maybe the most emotionally shattering movie I've seen in years.
Bilge Ebiri, Vulture · we gave it 92- Film
- Chloé Zhao · 2025 · United Kingdom
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Certificate reasons from the British Board of Film Classification, classified 07/01/2026. Their words: Very mild bad language.
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All 2 reviews
Devastating, maybe the most emotionally shattering movie I've seen in years.
Bilge Ebiri, Vulture · quoted in Wikipedia, original not read by us · FP000040With its quiet determination to say much about how art is affected by life, is unlike anything else.
Pete Hammond, Deadline Hollywood · quoted in Wikipedia, original not read by us · FP000041Who wrote about this filmgo read them
What the readers worked outwe link the room and never a person in it · nothing here moves the score
This room found the fault line our critics went straight past. Both reviews we counted call the film devastating; the thread works out that the devastation is conditional. Readers who know Hamlet describe the final scene landing exactly as intended. Readers who do not describe a scene that felt like it should be profound and was not. Someone asks whether a film ought to stand without homework, someone answers that the play is the point, and neither of them wins, which is the honest result.
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