If there is one disappointing element of this moving, amusing, sad and memorable film it’s that it isn’t five hours long.

| Jan 18, 2025

To be an artist, or not to be? That is the question of “Grand Theft Hamlet"

| Jan 18, 2025

Grand Theft Hamlet is not just a lark, but a savvy project from stalled-out creatives hoping to make something of all this spare time.

| Jan 17, 2025

“Grand Theft Hamlet” is really about a number of other themes: artistic obsession, community, and, I think most important, what constitutes “real” life in a world pervaded by digital existences.

| Jan 17, 2025

More than just a shaggy dog story, “Grand Theft Hamlet” is a pointed, entertaining and moving examination of interdisciplinary conductivity at its most surprising.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jan 17, 2025

A making-of film fueled by the chaos of a plan gone wrong, Grand Theft Hamlet is equal parts charming and cheesy—both due to its experimental setting.

| Original Score: B | Jan 13, 2025

Grand Theft Hamlet excels at blurring the line between low and high art.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jan 12, 2025

At its best when incorporating text from the play with oddly appropriate gameplay. The intoning of Hamlet’s best-known soliloquy over footage of a bar in the game’s skid row really does look like something from a straight-up indie film of the play.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 12, 2024

... What ultimately stays with you is the actor duo’s commendable ability to find inspiration and poetic gravitas in silliness, horseplay and tomfoolery, even (and especially) in the darkest of times.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 11, 2024

Sam Crane and Pinny Grylls’ feature co-directorial debut is a riotously funny, unexpectedly poignant ode to gaming, Shakespeare, the indestructible nature of art, and the benefits of befriending bazooka wielding extraterrestrials.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 10, 2024

For me, Oosterveen’s bewildered voice sounds very much like Simon Jones as Arthur Dent in The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy and I mean it as the highest possible praise when I say Douglas Adams would have loved this film. I certainly did.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Dec 6, 2024

Hamlet is about people pretending to be something they’re not; but the GTA version is perversely revealing: we may not know what the actors look like until the very end, but we know what’s haunting them.

| Dec 6, 2024

However, what makes this wickedly entertaining is how ridiculously amusing it is, and how such an incredibly stupid proposition ended up being so watchable.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 21, 2024

We haven’t even scratched the surface of “Pandemic Stories” that will unfold on screen over the next generation, but you won’t see another one quite like this.

| Mar 16, 2024

This whole project results in absolute hilarity but the film is also exceptionally moving.

| Mar 12, 2024

A documentary that returns Shakespeare to his rightful place at the intersection between high and low art, and restores a palpable sense of danger to one of the stalest but still most exciting English-language plays ever written.

| Original Score: B+ | Mar 11, 2024

"[An] endearing and provocative chronicle of a production of Shakespeare that takes place entirely in the world of “Grand Theft Auto.”

| Mar 11, 2024

An easy, wry, instantly rewarding watch...

| Mar 11, 2024

Innovative and touching.

| Mar 11, 2024