Hamnet
Wednesday, February 11, 2026 1:11:20 PM | (Age Not Specified)
Manipulative for sure, but many will shed a tear. The feeling of death was well done in this movie. You could feel the loss and the actors did their best to give life to the screenplay about a mysterious period of time. There are moments where the story struggles, because we don't know much about Anne Hathaway. The weaker scenes feel anachronistic. Wikipedia: "Historian Katherine Scheil describes Hathaway as a 'wife-shaped void' used by modern writers 'as a canvas for expressing contemporary woman's struggles—over independence, single motherhood, sexual freedom, unfaithful husbands, woman's education and power-relations between husband and wife.'" As a meditation on facing death, that's where the movie has its strengths.
