Grief Is the Defining Theme of This Year’s Oscar Slate — Why This Movie Critic Thinks That’s a Good Thing
There’s no best tearjerker category at the Academy Awards, but this year’s winner would be a no-brainer if there were: Hamnet. Chloé Zhao’s adaptation of the novel by Maggie O’Farrell contends that the death of William Shakespeare’s son Hamnet inspired Hamlet, the Bard’s magnum opus (in addition to the play premiering just a few years […]
