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How Hamnet’s Jessie Buckley went from an Andrew Lloyd Webber reality show to award season’s golden girl

The Irish actor’s heart-wrenching performance in ‘Hamnet’ has got critics talking (and cinemagoers sobbing). Katie Rosseinsky charts her rise from being body shamed in the “messed-up world of reality TV” to becoming the toast of Hollywood

The Independent UK

‘It had to be Jessie Buckley’: star-maker Nina Gold glimpses Oscar chance for Hamnet casting

Woman who paired Buckley with Paul Mescal in critics’ favourite is contender in new Academy Award category

The Guardian - UK

The crying game: what Hamnet’s grief-porn debate says about women, cinema – and enormous hawks

Hamnet and H Is for Hawk fuse themes of loss, birds and elemental female emotion. But whose fault is it if you remain dry-eyed?

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Where is Hamnet filmed? The real-life locations behind the Shakespeare story

Explore the real-life UK locations (including some that may surprise you) from Hamnet

The Independent UK

William Shakespeare, King of Fanfiction, Would Have Loved ‘Hamnet’

Man basically invented fanfic!

The Mary Sue

It takes many ghosts to make a story: how Maggie O'Farrell’s Hamnet takes from – and mistakes – Shakespeare

In her eighth novel Hamnet, Maggie O’Farrell imagines the short life and tragic death of Shakespeare’s only son, aged 11, in 1596. Although it is not known how Hamnet died, O’Farrell attributes his death to the plague. She creates a visceral and affecting portrait of his swift decline and the…

The Conversation

The Golden Globes ceremony ignored politics. But their big winner taps today’s unhappy turbulence

One Battle After Another engages with the tense climate of the second Trump administration unlike any other contender

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‘She will go down as one of the best’: the rise of Jessie Buckley

From talent shows to the big screen, the actor’s performance in Hamnet has made her a leading awards contender

The Guardian - UK

Bafta Awards longlist sees Leonardo DiCaprio thriller lead way with 16 nods

‘Hamnet’, ‘Sinners’ and Timothée Chalamet’s ‘Marty Supreme’ have also notched up an impressive amount of mentions on the list

The Independent UK

‘That’s not how I pictured it’ – why book-to-film adaptations so often disappoint

As Hamnet arrives on the big screen, many fans of the book may feel a familiar mix of excitement and trepidation. They may wonder how the film will bring to life Maggie O'Farrell’s intimate portrayal of Shakespeare’s wife, Agnes, and the loss of their son.

The Conversation

Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another leads Bafta longlist for 2026

Leonardo DiCaprio features in the leading actor longlist alongside Timothee Chalamet and Michael B Jordan.

Evening Standard

Bug review – Carrie Coon brings intensity to paranoid Tracy Letts revival

Samuel J Friedman Theatre, New YorkThe White Lotus and Gilded Age actor takes on her real-life husband Tracy Letts’ 1996 thriller, which could have afforded some modern-day tweaks

The Guardian - US

Hamnet review – Oscar-primed Shakespeare film isn’t as manipulative as its critics claim

4/5 Jessie Buckley, already the Best Actress Oscar frontrunner, is remarkable as William Shakespeare’s wife Agnes in Chloé Zhao’s speculative grief drama

The Independent UK

Unmissable London: The best theatre, film, dance, opera, TV and music of 2026

Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey. Lily Allen in the West End. A Gorillaz football stadium takeover. It’s all on in the capital

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Hamnet review – Paul Mescal and Jessie Buckley beguile and captivate in audacious Shakespearean tragedy

Chloé Zhao’s film version of Maggie O’Farrell’s myth-making novel powerfully reimagines the agonising loss of a child as the source of Hamlet’s grand stage drama

The Independent UK

Jessie Buckley sets pulses racing with comment about Paul Mescal at Critics Choice Awards

Irish actors co-star in Chloé Zhao’s ‘Hamnet’ adaptation

The Independent UK

‘Truthfully, you can never be a good parent’: Inside Sentimental Value, the year’s frankest, most emotional film

THE SATURDAY INTERVIEW: A powerful tale of absent fathers and estranged children, Joachim Trier’s ‘Sentimental Value’ – his follow-up to the acclaimed ‘Worst Person in the World’ – is primed for Oscar glory come 2026. Annabel Nugent speaks to Trier and his actors Stellan Skarsgård, Renate Reinsve, Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas…

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Dancing! Fighting! Impregnating! The best movie moments of 2025

From Sinners to F1 to Highest 2 Lowest, Guardian writers pick the scenes that stuck with them the most this year

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Epic Gamer Grandma Dies from COPD — Fans Mourn TikToker Who Changed Gaming

Learn about Epic Gamer Grandma, the beloved TikTok star who passed away and inspired millions with her gaming spirit and warm presence.

The Conversation

The five best films of 2025 – according to experts

In no particular order, here are The Conversation’s top five films of 2025 as reviewed by our experts.

The Guardian - UK

Renate Reinsve on vomit-inducing reviews and 19-minute standing ovations: ‘You feel your face go stiff from smiling so long’

The Norwegian star was considering giving up acting to be a carpenter when Joachim Trier wrote The Worst Person in the World for her. Now the pair have teamed up again – but she refuses to get carried away by all the praise

What Hi-Fi?

I saw 75 films this year – these are my 5 best and 5 worst movies of 2025

What a year for cinema it has been

The Guardian - UK

Bog Queen by Anna North review – a tale that could dig deeper

This story of a teenage druid whose body is discovered in a peat bog has memorable moments – but its evocation of time and place is unconvincing

The Independent UK

Paul Mescal reveals he would ‘love’ to play Irish rebel leader

The actor stated he has “always been so interested in that period of Irish history”

The Mary Sue

You’re all being weird about ‘Hamnet’

Stop being weird about it!

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