‘Hamnet’ review: delightfully painful

Jessie Buckley and Paul Mescal in Hamnet

Chloe Zhao’s Hamnet surprised—delighted, actually—me at its final act. At the start of the movie, I thought that it would be an adaptation of William Shakespeare’s longest play, Hamlet. Although it’s been ages since we studied the tragedy, I was quite certain during the first thirty minutes that what’s unfolding on the screen isn’t like […]