Is this a Hamlet for our times?
Joyce Glasser reviews Hamlet (February 6, 2026) Cert. 15, 113 mins. In this, the home of William Shakespeare, you might think you could never have too many productions of the bard’s most famous play. ...
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Poor Things director Yorgos Lanthimos and Emma Stone are back, but will this trilogy be The Favourite?
Joyce Glasser reviews Kinds of Kindness (June 28, 2024) Cert 18, 164 mins. In cinemas Noël Coward’s final play, Suite in Three Keys from 1966, was a trio: each play had a separate title, and the same ...
Robert Tanitch reviews Mary at Hampstead Theatre, London
Mary is Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots, a popular subject for writers. There has been a famous play by Schiller and a famous opera by Donizetti plus lots of romantic novels, films, television series and ...
A tragic 1960’s and a comic contemporary love story become entwined, but neither offers anything new.
Joyce Glasser reviews The Last Letter from Your Lover (August 6, 2021) Cert 12A, 109 mins. There’s a whiff of a Nicholas Sparks novel in the unabashed romance that saturates The Last Letter from Your ...