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Review: 'Grand Theft Hamlet'

Shakespeare meets Grand Theft Auto Online in this existential animated documentary.

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Christopher Campbell
Feb 21, 2025
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How would you like a documentary that makes you think of both the COVID-19 lockdowns and the L.A. fires? Grand Theft Hamlet was made during the former, chronicling a virtual production of Hamlet staged completely within the video game Grand Theft Auto Online. That game’s fictional world, Los Santos, is very faithfully based on Los Angeles, right down to…

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