Poster © Focus Features · 320×474, fair use, to show which film it is. Why.Hamnet
Read by Marlow, First Reader · what that means
- How they landed
- they all agreed2 critics, 86 to 92
- Best thing said
Devastating, maybe the most emotionally shattering movie I've seen in years.
Bilge Ebiri, Vulture · we gave it 92- Worst thing said
With its quiet determination to say much about how art is affected by life, is unlike anything else.
Pete Hammond, Deadline Hollywood · we gave it 86- Film
- Chloé Zhao · 2025 · United Kingdom
The guide1 of 7 came up · every line is a critic’s own words
ViolenceNobody mentioned it
Sex and nudityNobody mentioned it
SwearingNobody mentioned it
Drink and drugsNobody mentioned it
Upsetting1 critic mentioned it
“Devastating, maybe the most emotionally shattering movie I've seen in years.” — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture
OffensiveNobody mentioned it
Hard to sit throughNobody mentioned it
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 · FP00004092we gave it
With 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 · FP00004186we gave it
Who wrote about this filmgo read them
Bilge EbiriVultureWhere we read it
Pete HammondDeadline HollywoodWhere we read it
The conversationswe link the room, never a person in it
r/Letterboxd, on being baffled by the receptionReddit
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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