Jessie Buckley stars as Agnes and Paul Mescal as William Shakespeare in director Chloé Zhao’s Hamnet. | Agata Grzybowska/Focus Features Chloé Zhao’s lyrical, elegiac new film Hamnet, based on the novel by Maggie O’Farrell, has been an Oscars frontrunner since its festival release earlier this year. But as it made its way to mainstream theaters over Thanksgiving week, a new narrative emerged with a central question: Is this film, built around the harrowing death of Shakespeare’s 11-year-old son and the writing of Hamlet, a moving meditation on grief and the power of art to help us proce...

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