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, is an early awards favorite. It racked up six Golden Globe nominations, including Best Drama and Best Director, and it 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 Shak...

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