TheWrap<\/a> labelled it “a technical, artistic, intellectual, and emotional feast”, while The Film Maven<\/a> suggested it was “a beautiful examination of mourning and artistic catharsis”.<\/p>\n Focus Features<\/p>\n Related: <\/strong>Best streaming services<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n In Digital Spy<\/a><\/strong>‘s own five-star review, we wrote: “Yes, you will cry. But through the tears, you’ll realise you’ve just experienced one of the best movies of the year.”<\/p>\n Hamnet comes from Nomadland’s Chlo\u00e9 Zhao, who co-wrote the screenplay with original author O’Farrell, while Dune: Prophecy’s Emily Watson, The Brutalist’s Joe Alwyn and The Wonder’s David Wilmot.<\/p>\n Focus Features<\/p>\n Buckley previously called working on the movie “the most fluid, creative, immediate film experience” she has had in an interview with Vanity Fair<\/a>, adding: “Whatever Agnes represented as a woman and in relation to nature and to her children and to life and death\u2026I found that very intense.”<\/p>\n Zhao herself told the publication of working on the project: “I was so surprised by how immersive and sensorial the book is – and not only that, but the book is written in a way that has almost the same heartbeat as how I would edit.”<\/p>\n Hamnet is out now in UK cinemas.<\/strong><\/p>\n The new edition of <\/strong>Living Legends<\/strong>, celebrating music icon Dolly Parton, is here! <\/strong>Buy <\/strong>Dolly at 80<\/strong> in newsagents or online<\/strong><\/a>, priced at just \u00a38.99.<\/strong><\/strong> Sam is a freelance reporter and sub-editor who has a particular interest in movies<\/a>, TV<\/a> and music. After completing a journalism Masters at City University, London, Sam joined Digital Spy<\/strong> as a reporter, and has also freelanced for publications such as NME<\/a> and Screen International<\/a>. \u00a0Sam, who also has a degree in Film, can wax lyrical about everything from Lord of the Rings<\/a> to Love Is Blind<\/a>, and is equally in his element crossing every ‘t’ and dotting every ‘i’ as a sub-editor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jessie Buckley and Paul Mescal’s acclaimed British drama Hamnet has finally been released in UK cinemas. The movie…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":684719,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3935],"tags":[1380,207273,1331,77,1330,3943,207272,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-684718","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-content-type-news","9":"tag-contentid-6b6d8b9a-c602-4445-b9e4-4054ad51cd92","10":"tag-displaytype-standard-article","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-locale-gb","13":"tag-movies","14":"tag-shorttitle-hamnet-is-finally-available-to-watch-in-the-uk","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115865785832624112","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=684718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684718\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/684719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=684718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=684718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=684718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"jessie](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/jessie-buckley-paul-mescal-hamnet-68add556abfb2.jpg\" "\\"Jessie")
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