Editing Hamlet (2000 film) (section)

==Reception==
{{Rotten Tomatoes prose|59|5.8|97|consensus=Stiff performances fail to produce any tension onscreen.|ref=yes|access-date=December 8, 2022}} [[Metacritic]] assigned the film a weighted average score of 70/100, based on 32 reviews from mainstream critics.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.metacritic.com/movie/hamlet-2000|title=Hamlet Reviews|work=[[Metacritic]]|publisher=[[CBS Interactive]]|accessdate=March 12, 2021}}</ref>

Film critic [[Elvis Mitchell]] of ''[[The New York Times]]'' lauded it as a "vital and sharply intelligent film,"<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/library/film/051200hamlet-film-review.html|title='Hamlet': A Simpler Melancholy in a Different Denmark|work=[[The New York Times]]|last=Mitchell|first=Elvis|date=May 12, 2000|accessdate=March 12, 2021}}</ref> while ''[[The Washington Post]]'' reviewer deemed it as a "darkly interesting distraction but not much more."<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/entertainment/movies/reviews/hamlethowe.htm|title='Hamlet': A Melancholy Dude|accessdate=March 12, 2021|newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]|last=Howe|first=Desson|date=May 19, 2000}}</ref> The reaction to Hawke's performance as the title role is also mixed. The ''[[Los Angeles Times]]'' described him as a "superb Prince of Denmark - youthful, sensitive, passionate but with a mature grasp of the workings of human nature."<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.calendarlive.com/movies/reviews/cl-movie000511-93,0,770144.story|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070826115451/http://www.calendarlive.com/movies/reviews/cl-movie000511-93,0,770144.story|archivedate=August 26, 2007|title=Hamlet - Movie Review|last=Thomas|first=Kevin|accessdate=February 13, 2011|work=[[Los Angeles Times]]|url-status=dead}}</ref> ''[[New York (magazine)|New York]]'' magazine, however, thought Hawke's performance was only "middling."<ref>{{cite news|url=https://nymag.com/nymetro/movies/reviews/3173/|title=Get Thee to Moomba|last=Rainer|first=Peter|date=May 22, 2000|accessdate=March 12, 2021|work=[[New York (magazine)|New York]]}}</ref>

In March 2025, ''[[The New York Times]]'' listed ''Hamlet'' as among "The Movies We've Loved Since 2000."<ref>{{Cite web |date=March 17, 2025 |title=The Movies We've Loved Since 2000 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/movies/best-movies-since-2000.html |access-date=April 10, 2025 |website=[[The New York Times]] }}</ref>