Hamnet (2025)

What earned the score

• Pagan Witchcraft

  Agnes is portrayed as the daughter of a forest witch who possesses mystical abilities including reading people by touch, prophetic dreams, and creating healing potions and poultices.

• Mystical Child Revival

  During the birth of twins Hamnet and Judith, Agnes rejects her mother-in-law's religious proclamation that the stillborn Judith is dead and instead revives her through fervent mystical whispers.

• Pagan Funeral Rites

  Agnes conducts a funeral ritual for her deceased hawk, involving her children in placing items around the body in a pagan-like ceremony.

• Christianity Erasure

  The narrative sidelines the religious context of Elizabethan England's Reformation era, focusing instead on environmentalism, spiritualism, and occult elements in Agnes's heritage and actions.

• Witch Feminism

  Agnes is portrayed as an independent and intuitive woman deeply connected to nature, skilled in herbal remedies and falconry, who gives birth alone in the forest and revives her stillborn twin daughter through her own mystical whispers, rejecting her mother-in-law's religious intervention.

Details

The powerful story of love and loss that inspired the creation of Shakespeare's timeless masterpiece, Hamlet.

Starring

Jessie BuckleyPaul MescalEmily WatsonJacobi JupeJoe Alwyn

Director

Chloé Zhao

Writer

Chloé ZhaoMaggie O’Farrell

Genre

DramaRomance

Release Date

Nov 26, 2025

Parents Guide

• Sex Mild

  Brief sex scene. The main couple goes into a shed, the woman sits on a table, the man takes off his shirt and unbuckles his pants. As he thrusts his pants start to fall down, his butt is seen.

  Extremely brief non sexual nudity during childbirth.

• Violence Mild

  A man slaps his adult son in the face.

  Two young men argue and wrestle across a table over food on their plates and their father hits one of them in the head to make them stop.

  A woman tries to slap her husband in the face; they struggle briefly and he leaves.

  A man has a cut on his forehead (we see some blood) and a woman later treats it.

  Bodies wrapped in cloth are carried out of buildings.

  A woman's body is shown on a table with a bloodstained gown after she presumably died in childbirth.

• Profanity Mild
• Drugs Mild

  People drink wine with meals in a few scenes.

• Frightening Scenes Moderate

  Scenes featuring extremely sick children.

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