Hamlet (1948)
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ThumbScore
👍 86%audience score Estimated from TMDB user ratings and critic scores, calibrated to Google's former audience score. Google stopped publishing it in 2026.
Critics Score
🎬 96%
(RT: 96%) RT = Rotten Tomatoes (critic reviews). MC = Metacritic (weighted critic average). Critics Score is the average of both.
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Cast
Basil Sydney as Claudius - The King
Eileen Herlie as Gertrude - The Queen
Norman Wooland as Horatio - His Friend
Felix Aylmer as Polonius - Lord Chamberlain
Terence Morgan as Laertes
Is Hamlet good?
Yes. 86% audience score, estimated from 302 TMDB ratings. Critics agree, scoring it 96%.
Where it ranks on ThumbScore
Overview
Winner of four Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Actor, Sir Laurence Olivier’s Hamlet continues to be the most compelling version of Shakespeare’s beloved tragedy. Olivier is at his most inspired—both as director and as the melancholy Dane himself—as he breathes new life into the words of one of the world’s greatest dramatists. Wikipedia ↗
