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Thursday, February 12th, 2026

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Movie review censorship?

I've been posting movie reviews to IMDb for 15 years and never had an issue, but for some reason my below (admittedly negative) review of Hamnet was declined twice. IMDb regularly allows bot content on its platform and other, often garbled vitriol, so why was this turned down? 

"Clearly, Buckley and Mescal had their eye on the Oscar prize as they Performed Grief in Hamnet. But even Buckley's carefully timed paroxysms of emotion cannot obscure the underdevelopment of her character, nor can Mescal's mistimed, awkward bouts and outbursts obscure the lack of direction (and better writing) he and Buckley needed. Grief has rarely been so loudly and boringly rendered, skipping from one cliched beat to another. Hamnet's less interested in exploring despair than in insisting upon its own predictable self. For dramatizations of loss, watch Sirat or Amour or In the Bedroom or even Up instead. All of them approach their subjects with curiosity rather than as window dressing for a threadbare plot."

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