Hamnet: ‘All other acting looks like doodling by comparison’ Kevin Maher It’s been a good year for movies, and several of the best picture nominees are remarkable. The Secret Agent is audacious, Train Dreams is soothing, Sinners is wildly original and even the grossly over-fêted One Battle After Another has its moments. But there is only one genuine best picture here. And that’s Hamnet. It’s “best” not just because the director Chloé Zhao and the author Maggie O’Farrell transformed the latter’s dense and non-chronological novel into a streamlined movie narrative of romance, love and harrowing loss. Nor is it the...