The film “Hamnet” — an adaptation of Maggie O’Farrell’s historical fiction novel of the same name — presents a grief-driven ...

Cinema's fascination with The Bard falls into a couple of composite lanes: reverent biopic, speculative, and outright fantasy. The best examples don't try to solve mysteries or answer historical ...

William Shakespeare grieves the loss of his son, Hamnet, in the film of the same name. The movie is one of many that explore ...

Hamnet’ is a family drama about William Shakespeare, his wife Agnes, and their children. Learn how the movie blends fact and ...

As she watches the play “Hamlet” for the first time, Shakespeare’s grief-stricken wife begs to know what this work of fiction ...

The works of William Shakespeare have inspired countless performances and interpretations over the centuries, but some films show their Shakepearean roots more clearly than others. The challenge here ...

Among the memorable and intense scenes along the narrative path are a difficult birth scene, fulfilling a prophecy, and ...

The real William Shakespeare had a son named Hamnet, whose death at the age of 11 inspired the playwright’s masterpiece “Hamlet.” This film, directed by Chloé Zhao (“Nomadland”), was adapted from ...

From the postpartum loneliness and depression that many mothers face depicted in Lynne Ramsay’s “Die My Love,” the multigenerational fight for meaningful change in Paul Thomas Anderson’s “One Battle ...

Hamnet is an Oscar-bait prestige picture aimed at Hollywood’s known prejudices, its period setting meant to convince viewers that all is good with a feminist bourgeois approach to the world — same as ...