Between Chloé Zhao’s "Hamnet" — which recently netted Jessie Buckley a Best Actress Oscar — and Riz Ahmed’s gritty take on the Bard, the eponymous prince is officially all the rage. With Ahmed’s "Hamlet" is playing in theaters, the cultural obsession with Shakespeare’s most brooding hero shows no signs of waning.
Ahmed’s film transports the tragedy to contemporary London, featuring a standout moment where the Oscar-nominated actor bellows the famous "To be or not to be" monologue while speeding through a tunnel. Ahmed suggests this unconventional staging taps into the "radical, confronting DNA of the speech," proving it is about far more than a simple choice between life and death.
