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Welcome to my site! My name is Andrea Thompson, and I’m a writer, editor, and film critic who is a member of the Chicago Indie Critics and also the founder and director of the Film Girl Film Festival, which you can find more info about at filmgirlfilm.com! I have no intention of becoming any less obsessed with cinema, comics, or nerdom in general.

Ophelia Movie Review: Daisy Ridley and Naomi Watts are the real victims in a sumptuous but shallow Hamlet retelling

Ophelia Movie Review: Daisy Ridley and Naomi Watts are the real victims in a sumptuous but shallow Hamlet retelling

By Andrea Thompson

Even if you haven’t read the Shakespeare play Hamlet, you still know the story. There was the prince who might be mad, the queen who married her husband’s wicked brother after her husband passed, and probably most iconic of all, the would-be princess who supposedly succumbed to madness herself and drowned, and has been the subject of fervent speculation since.

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Spider-Man: Far From Home Movie Review: Jake Gyllenhaal takes a bland role and runs off with a movie