If there's only one movie you watch this week, make it "Hamnet." I know there are other options, from the new Elizabeth Olsen rom-com "Eternity" to all the new movies to stream this week, but none will be as good as this historical drama. That's because "Hamnet" might be the best movie of the year so far, period.
At the moment, I still give Paul Thomas Anderson's "One Battle After Another" the edge in the Best Picture Oscar race, both objectively and in my subjective opinion. However, Jessie Buckley's performance is the best acting performance of any I've seen in 2025 so far, and I've seen dozens of this year's movies to date. As Agnes Shakespeare, wife of the Bard, she goes through an entire range of emotions, from stoicism to despair, from joy to anger.
