Early screenings of Chloé Zhao's Hamnet had critics weeping in the aisles

Host Alex Heeney left it dry-eyed — and so did her guest, Angelo Muredda.

We're Shakespeare fans, long-time film critics, and not exactly immune to a good cry — so in this episode, we try to figure out why the film didn't land.

We dig into what works in the film (a short list) and what doesn't (a longer one), where the adaptation of Maggie O'Farrell's novel went awry, and whether having read a synopsis of Hamlet on Wikipedia might actually impede your enjoyment of the film.

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