Drew Lichtenberg in The New York Times:
The new film “Hamnet” features two bright young actors, Paul Mescal and Jessie Buckley, playing Shakespeare and his wife, Agnes (née Anne) Hathaway. “Hamnet” arrives already widely lauded — it won the audience award at the Toronto International Film Festival and has been sending millennial cinephiles into critical paroxysms. “Not to be hyperbolic but this movie contains the actual meaning of life,” wrote one such reviewer on Letterboxd. The film, based on Maggie O’Farrell’s best-selling novel, recasts Shakespeare’s life in the most youthful and desirable terms possible, positioning itself as a generational gateway for a reanimated obsession with the Bard.
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