Hamnet is an emotionally shattering adaptation of Maggie O'Farrell’s novel by Chloé Zhao. The film explores love, loss, and creativity through Shakespeare’s family in plague-era England.

Hamnet review: Chloé Zhao's haunting adaptation of Maggie O'Farrell's titular novel about the death of Shakespeare's only son ...

Hamnet was the only son of Shakespeare and his wife, Anne Hathaway. The boy, who had a twin sister Judith, died from illnness in 1596 at the age of 11. O’Farrell’s historical fiction novel speculates ...

The director Chloé Zhao narrates a sequence from her film featuring Jessie Buckley and Paul Mescal. The movie is nominated for eight Oscars, including best picture.

To be sure, this theatrical adaptation of the beautiful Maggie O’Farrell novel has some stiff competition from the recent movie.

Hamnet Shakespeare died in 1596, about five years before his father’s epic tragedy “Hamlet” premiered. The stage adaptation of Maggie O’Farrell’s 2020 historical fiction book about the Bard and his ...

Hamnet is less a literary origin story and more an elegy staged in moss, mud, and murmured silences. Directed with monk-like ...

Chloé Zhao's ‘Hamnet’, starring Jessie Buckley and Paul Mescal, is an expert but tentative study in mannered grief ...

The works of William Shakespeare are so ingrained within the popular consciousness that it can sometimes be difficult to remember that they were in fact written by a man as human as the rest of us. He ...

Directed by Chloé Zhao of Nomadland and MCU's Eternals fame, Hamnet is neither an adaptation of William Shakespeare's story nor a biopic. Instead, it brings to life Maggie O’Farrell’s acclaimed 2020 ...

PHOENIX (AZFamily) — SOME SPOILERS AHEAD for Hamnet. I’ll just say if you want to see one of the best films of 2025, do NOT miss this one. Whether or not you were bored reading his work in school, ...

The legendary actor, who got his start in productions of Shakespeare's plays, thinks something doesn't add up about Chloe Zhao's spin on the Bard's origins.