EIGHT ACADEMY AWARD NOMINATIONS (incl. Best Picture, Best Actress, Best Director) Hamnet tells the powerful story of love and loss that inspired the creation of Shakespeare’s timeless masterpiece, Hamlet. Jessie Buckley and Paul Mescal star, directed by Academy Award winner Chloé Zhao.

If there’s been a more staggering cinematic catharsis in recent years, I’ve not experienced it. -NPR

Sometimes you have to approach sorrow sideways to understand it; sometimes a play like “Hamlet,” or a movie like “Hamnet,” can show you how to move through those dark woods. –New York Times

The film’s potency is derived as much from the physicality of the performances — Mescal’s restless, questing agitation, Buckley’s open book of a face — as it is from the dialogue. –Observer

There is much else to admire in this beautifully shot, cruelly raw film, but, with some justification, most of the talk will be about the female lead. One can think of few other actors who can so unashamedly access such torrents of simulated emotion. -Irish Times

Zhao captures the book’s lyrical naturalism and attention to sensory detail in scenes involving the couple’s courtship and time spent playing with their young children. –Slate

PG-13, 125min