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- Rick Aragon @ Rick’s Texan Reviews
- Excerpt: Decent performances keep the somber to self-serious Hamnet from being a total bore.
- Gregory Carlson @ southpawfilmworks.net
- Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: Hamnet is about the healing power of art, but when all is said and done, the film feels like a long setup for its extraordinary, final scene.
- Christopher Cross @ Asynchronous Media
- Jason Flatt @ But Why Tho
- Excerpt: Hamnet feels empty at times, but in that emptiness is an exceptional display of tragedy and grief that helps demystify Shakespeare’s greatest play.
- Sarah Gopaul @ Imagery at the Movies
- Excerpt: The film is based on the theory that Hamlet was inspired by Shakespeare’s personal tragedy, but that is just the story’s destination. Along the way is a moving exploration of love and grief that can be beautifully fervent and irrational.
- Mark Hobin @ Fast Film Reviews
- Excerpt: Actress Jessie Buckley is the beating heart of the production. Even for this viewer who has never been a devoted Shakespeare fan, she makes his world feel immediate and totally alive.
- Kristian Lin @ Fort Worth Weekly
- Excerpt: Much like last week’s Sentimental Value, Hamnet is a testament to the power of drama to provide a salve to the thousand natural shocks that flesh is heir to. In the face of all this, there’s not much to do besides give it a curtain call.
- [New] | Wesley Lovell @ Cinema Sight
- Jared Mobarak @ Hey, have you seen …?
- Excerpt: Zhao is spot-on when she talks about Hamnet exemplifying the “alchemy” that can occur when one’s art is wielded as a therapeutic outlet. The play doesn’t exploit their tragedy. It memorializes a life and ensures the entire world celebrates and mourns him with them.
- Matt Oakes @ Silver Screen Riot
- Excerpt: A profoundly moving portrait of family, tragedy, and how art binds us, ‘Hamnet’ is a stunning return to form for director Chloé Zhao, boasting one of the year’s best performances from Jessie Buckley and sure to leave you emotionally hammered.
- [New] | Bev Questad @ itsjustmovies.com
- Excerpt: Chloé Zhao, Chinese-born and American-educated, who won Best Director for her work on “Nomadland” (2020), is the second of three women to win the Academy Award for Best Director. This film is an evolution in her art and loved by me and others who have seen it.
- Nuno Reis @ Antestreia [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: Com o passar do tempo as interpretações revelam-se sublimes e no final ainda temos direito a ver meia peça shakesperiana. Nunca mais veremos Shakespeare da mesma forma.
- Jeff Schaefer @ The Marquee Topic
- Dennis Schwartz @ dennisschwartzreviews
- Excerpt: Humanizes the Bard.
- Sebastian Zavala @ Cinencuentro.com [Spanish]
- Excerpt: It tells us a lot about the power of art and how it can serve as a form of personal expression, being used not only to tell stories and entertain, but also as a channel for emotional release.
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