Hamnet: there are so many stories about artists processing grief through the creation of an amazing work of art. What elevates this one, is the power and range of Jessie Buckley’s performance. Chloe Zhao gives her the opportunity to cycle through an entire acting reel’s worth of emotional beats in a single movie. (Want me to play manic? Seductive? Heartbroken? Terrified? Insane? Here, just watch Hamnet)
We meet her as an irresistibly light hearted soul, see her fall in love, first with her husband and then with her children, and then see her subjected to unimaginable suffering until she’s bellowing like an animal at the camera. Meanwhile, her husband happens to be away from home writing plays. The two are reunited for the world’s most emotional production of Hamlet.
You’ll be hard pressed not to start crying in the final 10 minutes. I once said we need a moratorium on using Max Richter’s On the Nature of daylight after Arrival, Shutter Island, and The Last of Us, because it’s an emotional cheat code, but I’ll make an exception here (in part because Richter slightly remixes the piece).
Shoutout to Impressive period accurate production design and Cinematography by Lukasz Zal (Cold War) who merges his style nicely with Zhao’s. #TellurideFilmFestival
'Hamnet' Review: Jessie Buckley and Paul Mescal Are a Wonder in Chloé Zhao's Gorgeous and Shattering Shakespeare-Inspired Drama https://t.co/9aYfch3XYx
The untold love story that inspired Shakespeare's greatest masterpiece.
Jessie Buckley and Paul Mescal star in HAMNET, directed by Academy Award winner Chloé Zhao. Only in theaters this Thanksgiving.
Here’s the final version of our grid at #Cannes2025 . SIRÂT got 5 Palms from our critics while THE SECRET AGENT and ROMERÍA got 2.
TOP 5 films are:
1, SIRÂT
2, RESURRECTION
3, THE SECRET AGENT
4, THE MASTERMIND
5, ROMERÍA
#Cannes2025 Resurrection: The new epoch has begun. Bi Gan constructs a feverish world through expressionist and grotesque aesthetics. Water captures the shapes of sound; mirrors obliterate the boundary between the self and the illusion.
It turns symbols into weapons, fusing the negative space of Chinese calligraphy with volatile emotional currents. Superpowers are stripped of spectacle, they emerge as raw, primal responses to collapse. They’re the subconscious clawing its way out of submission.
#Cannes2025 Die, My Love: The screen is drenched in raw animal instinct, restless carnal desire, and flesh-driven plus maternal pressure madness that spirals into total chaos, possessing your soul every single second. Night Granny absolutely obliterates Nightbitch.
#Cannes2025 Miroirs No.3: Christian Petzold is a modern master. He tells a story of complex and captivating emotions through an extremely minimalist structure.
Sirat is the the first #Cannes2025 film to make me feel alive… A desert rave pulsing with kinetic soundwaves, a symphony of bass that shakes you from the inside out. Sirat teaches you how to live, how to carry yourself, what attitude to take toward existence. 10/10