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Maggie O’Farrell is responsible for some of my biggest COVID cries (impressive, considering how hotly contested that category is). Hamnet hit home with its uncanny parallels to pandemic life with shuttered playhouses, quarantines and families separated by illness. The film adaptation, released last year to great acclaim, presented me with another emotional outpouring. This time at the powerhouse performance from Jessie Buckley, whose grieving maternal howls made me flinch – but never look away.
