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| Focus Features | Release Date: November 26, 2025 |
Summary:
Hamnet tells the powerful story of love and loss that inspired the creation of Shakespeare’s timeless masterpiece, Hamlet.
Genre(s):
Biography, Drama, History
Runtime:
125 min
Screen Rant
Sep 11, 2025
Nov 26, 2025
i
Jan 9, 2026
It is a story of family and relationships, of life’s inevitabilities, and the surprises we can nonetheless carve from those. Its gut-wrenching despair is matched by a strange optimism, a powerful embrace of the possibilities of life and love that stays with you long after the end credits roll.
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Dec 22, 2025
The Independent
Jan 9, 2026
Dec 2, 2025
Nov 29, 2025
As dry and matter-of-fact as Ms. Zhao was in Nomadland, which won her Oscars for best director and best picture (as she was one of its producers), she is the opposite here, driving her actors to maximal emoting. The movie purports to dip into the deep well of Shakespearean magnificence but emerges only with a ladle full of greasy schmaltz.
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