{"id":204513,"date":"2026-04-10T11:17:26","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T15:17:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=204513"},"modified":"2026-04-10T11:18:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T15:18:14","slug":"hamlet-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=204513","title":{"rendered":"Review: <i>Hamlet<\/i> (2026)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/images-e1775786587979.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"533\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-204514\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/images-e1775786587979.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/images-e1775786587979-150x200.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/images-e1775786587979-300x400.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/images-e1775786587979-75x100.jpg 75w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Perfect timing, what with my Shakespeare reading project and all. Riz Ahmed plays Hamlet in a new &#8211; and streamlined &#8211; version of the script, taking place in present-day London among the South Asian community. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rogerebert.com\/reviews\/hamlet-riz-ahmed-film-review-2026\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">I reviewed for Ebert.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dBP9OUlnoY4?si=MTNonwcnl6nSGn7p\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Perfect timing, what with my Shakespeare reading project and all. Riz Ahmed plays Hamlet in a new &#8211; and streamlined &#8211; version of the script, taking place in present-day London among the South Asian community. I reviewed for Ebert.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[2208,2137,2668,218],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204513"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=204513"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":204519,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204513\/revisions\/204519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=204513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=204513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=204513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}