As with books, there are certain movies that stay with you long after you finish watching them. While I watched many good films from 2025, Hamnet, directed by Chloé Zhao, stands out as an exceptional book-to-film adaptation and work of art. Irish actress Jessie Buckley’s Academy Award-winning performance as Agnes, the wife of Shakespeare, beautifully portrays life as a wife and mother in Elizabethan England.
The story follows Agnes, a free-spirited falconer and lover of nature, as she meets and falls in love with William Shakespeare, played by Paul Mescal, and th...
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