In March, the Book Review Book Club will read and discuss Tayari Jones’s new novel, about two motherless girls and their lifelong search for family.

Jessie Buckley is the favorite to win Best Actress in a Leading Role at the 2026 Academy Awards for her work in 'Hamnet' ...

Pauline Kael, an esteemed film critic with a penchant for snark, applauded cinema that cut through the noise and left a mark on viewers’ hearts. In her 1969 essay, “Trash, Art and the Movies,” she ...

Marking International Women’s Day, The Independent has compiled its annual list of the 50 most influential women across the ...

Rookie cops Judy Hopps and Nick Wilde find themselves on the twisting trail of a great mystery when Gary De’Snake arrives in Zootopia and turns the animal metropolis upside down. To crack the case, ...

In the stage versions of two beloved books, the most impressive moments emerge when the productions stray from the source ...

"Hamnet" is making audiences break down in tears -- and upending beliefs about male grief. The Oscar-nominated film stars Paul Mescal as Shakespeare.

The director Chloé Zhao narrates a sequence from her film featuring Jessie Buckley and Paul Mescal. The movie is nominated for eight Oscars, including best picture.

Hamnet Shakespeare died in 1596, about five years before his father’s epic tragedy “Hamlet” premiered. The stage adaptation of Maggie O’Farrell’s 2020 historical fiction book about the Bard and his ...

—Chloé Zhao’s Oscar-worthy movie “Hamnet” strikes me as a very mixed blessing for Britain’s Royal Shakespeare Company, now back at Chicago Shakespeare Theater on Navy Pier with a Stateside premiere of ...

Chloé Zhao’s Hamnet arrives on 4K UHD Blu-ray with stunning visuals and raw performances but does the slow burn Shakespeare ...