Monday, December 29, 2025

One of Washington Post reviewers most anticipated holiday movies: "Hamnet" unable to find a wide audience

 
Source:  Box Office Mojo
Headline:  Washington Post, 11/19/2025

After a poorly received turn at the helm of Marvel’s superhero misfire “Eternals,” writer-director Chloé Zhao (“Nomadland”) returns to her comfort zone of quietly interior drama, adapting Maggie O’Farrell’s 2020 novel about William Shakespeare’s family life. Mescal plays the Bard, and Buckley is his wife, Agnes (better known as Anne) Hathaway. In this winner of the People’s Choice Award for best film at the Toronto International Film Festival, Wishart plays the couple’s son, Hamnet, whose death at age 11 precipitates a meditation on the ways grieving affects marriage and art.

Another well-received film that can't find a wide audience.






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Trajectory of a most anticipated holiday movie ("Eternity" edition).  (12/23/2025)


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