Movie Review: HAMNET

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 11/21/2025
HAMNET movie poster | ©2025 Focus Features

Rating: PG-13 Stars: Jessie Buckley, Paul Mescal, Joe Alwyn, Emily Watson, Jacobi Jupe, Olivia Lynes, Bodhi Rae Breathnach, Noah Jupe, David Wilmot, Justine Mitchell Writers: Chloé Zhao & Maggie O’Farrell, based on the novel HAMNET by Maggie O’Farrell Director: Chloé Zhao Distributor: Focus Features Release Date: November 26, 2025 Over four hundred years after his death, William Shakespeare remains the most lauded playwright in the English language and HAMLET is arguably his most revered play. Written and first performed sometime between 1599 and 1601, HAMLET’s title character shares a name with Shakespeare’s only son Hamnet (Hamnet and Hamlet were considered […]Read On »


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Movie Review: WOMEN TALKING

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 12/23/2022
WOMEN TALKING movie poster | ©2022 MGM/United Artists/Orion

Rating: PG-13 Stars: Rooney Mara, Claire Foy, Jessie Buckley, Judith Ivey, Sheila McCarthy, August Winter, Michelle McLeod, Kate Hallett, Liv McNeil, Kira Guloien, Shayla Brown Writer: Sarah Polley, based on the book by Miriam Toews Director: Sarah Polley Distributor: MGM/United Artists/Orion Release Date: December 23, 2022 WOMEN TALKING feels like it is based on an actual incident. It is instead based on Miriam Toews’s 2018 novel of the same name, although the book is inspired by real-world events. Narrated by a young woman talking to her own child, WOMEN TALKING begins with the words, “The story ends before you were […]Read On »


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Movie Review: THE COURIER

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 04/05/2021
THE COURIER movie poster | ©2021 Lionsgate

Rating: PG-13 Stars: Benedict Cumberbatch, Merab Ninidze, Rachel Brosnahan, Jessie Buckley, Angus Wright, Zeljko Ivanek, Kirill Pirogov, Anton Lesser, Maria Mironova, Vladimir Chuprikov Writer: Tom O’Connor Director: Dominic Cooke Distributor: Lionsgate Release Date: March 19, 2021  THE COURIER begins with the onscreen statement, “This film is based on true events.” This is accurate. Whether those events happened the way they’re depicted here or not, THE COURIER is a cracking good period spy thriller. By 1960, both the United States and Soviet Union had enough weapons to wipe out humanity (and presumably most other organic life on the planet). Many people […]Read On »


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