Hamnet is not your average Shakespeare biopic
If there is anything that years of experiments in the genre have taught us, it’s that it’s difficult to make a good film about a great man. The entrants in this genre, from A Beautiful Mind (2001) to A Complete Unknown (2024), vary widely. Some are excellent, many more are just OK, and a few are very bad. A film about someone who is already iconic presents a problem: Can a legend be humanized without losing their legendary quality or becoming a caricature of their most famous attributes?
