Hamnet (2025)

Jessie Buckley and Paul Mescal as the Shakespeares grieving their son Hamnet—Chloé Zhao directs this heartbreaking 16th-century family drama.

Crowd Score: 8.1/10

Who Is It For?

Prestige drama lovers who appreciate slow-burning emotional devastation will be destroyed by this in the best way. If Jessie Buckley's raw performances in The Lost Daughter or Women Talking moved you, Hamnet is her crowning achievement. Literary adaptation fans and anyone who cries at beautiful cinema.

Vibe Match

The Power of the Dog meets Shakespeare in Love — period grief drama with devastating performances

What People Are Saying

Favorite part of the movie was about 2 hours and 10 minutes in, when they finally introduced the character as William Shakespeare, the lady next to me

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Casting Noah Jupe, the real-life brother of Jacobi Jupe (Hamnet), as the actor playing Hamlet is such a great example of meta casting.

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When they went to actually see the play and Agnes wanted to leave but the brother was like “chill..this is actually kinda good” I thought it was funny

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Agnes asks Will to look back at her twice - first at their wedding, and then later while watching the play, thus dooming her to be lost to him forever

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Favorite part of the movie was about 2 hours and 10 minutes in, when they finally introduced the character as William Shakespeare, the lady next to me said \

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