Ian McKellen can speed through Richard III — no problem. He's also played King Lear and the Danish prince. But Chloe Zhao's Hamnet, which imagines the creative origins of William Shakespeare's Hamlet?

Ian McKellen disagrees with several aspects of the film Hamnet, based on the 2020 novel by Maggie O'Farrell, which concerns itself with the life of William Shakespeare. "I don't quite get it," ...