"Hamnet"

The Next Best Picture Podcast

Tv & Film

4.2 • 542 Ratings

🗓️ 7 December 2025

⏱️ 152 minutes

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Summary

For this week's main podcast review, Megan Lachinski, Josh Parham, Dan Bayer, and Brendan Hodges join me to discuss the latest film from Academy Award-winner Chloé Zhao, "Hamnet," starring Jessie Buckley, Paul Mescal, Emily Watson, Joe Alwyn, Jacobi Jupe, and Noah Jupe. The historical drama film co-written by Maggie O'Farrell, the author of the title novel this film is based on is a largely fictional story dramatizing the marriage between Anne Hathaway (Agnes Hathaway in the novel and film) and William Shakespeare, and the impact of the tragic death of their 11-year-old son Hamnet on their relationship, which inspired Shakespeare's iconic play "Hamlet." The film had its world premiere at the Telluride Film Festival and has been drawing tears from audiences everywhere it plays, including the Toronto International Film Festival, where it won the People's Choice Award. What did we think of it, though? Please tune in as we discuss the story, performances, cinematography, score, whether it made us as emotional as intended, its awards season chances, and more in our SPOILER-FILLED review. Thank you for listening, and enjoy! Check out more on NextBestPicture.com Please subscribe on... Apple Podcasts - https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/negs-best-film-podcast/id1087678387?mt=2 Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/7IMIzpYehTqeUa1d9EC4jT YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWA7KiotcWmHiYYy6wJqwOw And be sure to help support us on Patreon for as little as $1 a month at https://www.patreon.com/NextBestPicture and listen to this podcast ad-free Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You are listening to The Next Best Picture podcast and this is our review for Hamman.
0:05.2	Tell me a story.
0:07.1	What story would you like?
0:08.9	Something that moves you.
0:13.3	Is it true?
0:14.6	You know everything about a person by touching them here?
0:18.8	Not everything.
0:19.8	No. Not everything. Not everything. You touched me here.
0:27.6	What did you see?
0:29.6	I saw a landscape.
0:32.6	So landscape?
0:33.6	Mm-hmm.
0:35.6	Spaces, cavesunnels and oceans.
0:40.3	Undiscovered countries.
0:43.3	Will you be brave?
0:45.3	Yes.
0:46.3	Will you be brave?
0:48.3	Deep dark black void.
0:53.3	I'll be brave. All right, everybody, you were just listening to the trailer Deep dark black void.
1:00.3	All right, everybody, you were just listening to the trailer for Hamnet, and the story is as follows.
1:04.2	William Shakespeare and his wife Anyas celebrate the birth of their son Hamnet.
1:07.3	However, when tragedy strikes and Hamnet dies at a young age,
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