Chloe Zhao’s Hamnet is the kind of movie where the whole thing really depends on the final act.  Most of the movie keeps its two leads apart, with Jessie Buckley’s Agnes Shakespeare at “home” and Paul Mescal’s Will Shakespeare living in London (where we see very little of his life there).  As such, the movie really is more about Agnes than the Bard.  But the dark, strange mood of the first two-thirds of the movie gives way to what you’ve been expecting the whole time.  And when it happens, it really is great (and in a way that I didn’t see coming).