News of Netflix buying WB & Critics Choice Noms opens the show, and then we dive into a full film study review of Chloe Zhao’s Hamnet, the sad story of how Shakespeare came to write Hamlet.

WB sells to Netflix - 1:01

NON-SPOILER REVIEW:

Reception & Awards Profiles - 7:01

Awards Profile Thus Far including Critics Choice Award Noms - 12:01

Movie Watching Stories & Non-Spoiler Script Thoughts - 13:46

Performance Reviews - 18:32

Production Values - 25:07

Oscar Lens & Over/Under for Nominations - 31:29

Spoiler Warning - 38:17

SPOILER FILLED REVIEW:

The big emotional scene - 39:05

That Ending & Arguments Against Tragedy Porn - 48:15

7 Stages - 56:55

More Bests and a Few Worsts - 1:01:29

Final Grades - 1:08:19

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