The film Grand Theft Hamlet is constantly surprising, breathtakingly imaginative, and a great introduction to Shakespeare — or, I guess, to video games — whichever you need introducing to.

The documentary, following a production of "Hamlet" within "Grand Theft Auto V," is a high mark for the machinima genre of in-game filmmaking.

For the most recent precedent for Grand Theft Hamlet, you’d probably have to go back nearly 20 years, to a 2006 episode of South Park.Titled “Make Love, Not Warcraft,” it found Cartman ...

Grand Theft Hamlet is more than a documentary about logistical madness, randomly hump-thrust-emoting alien avatars, and mindless virtual violence.

Grand Theft Hamlet will follow the story of out-of-work theater actors Sam Crane and Mark Oosterveen, who had the idea to stage a full production of Shakespeare’s ‘Hamlet’ within Grand Theft ...

That’s exactly the premise of Grand Theft Hamlet, a documentary that chronicles two actors’ tumultuous attempt during the Covid-19 pandemic to stage the bard’s famous tragedy entirely within ...

Like those films, “Grand Theft Hamlet” recreates the look and feel of the digital world so well that we start to feel what it’s like to live in a virtual space, even for a little while.

Part absurdist making-of doc, part postmodern inquiry, “Grand Theft Hamlet” takes place entirely within a game known for its unhinged violence.

Grand Theft Hamlet premiered at the 2024 SXSW Film Festival, winning the Jury Award for best documentary feature. The movie ...

"Grand Theft Hamlet" received largely positive reviews from critics, with IndieWire's David Ehrlich writing that "few pandemic films have better expressed the desperation to connect with a world ...

“Grand Theft Hamlet” is clearly a product of the unique moment in history that necessitated it. The documentary is one of the first truly interesting films made about the pandemic, ...

How ‘Grand Theft Hamlet’ found the soul in video-game cinema. The documentary, following a production of “Hamlet” within “GTA V,” is a high mark for the machinima genre of in-game ...