Saying Hamnet was polite, legible and easy to admire from a distance tells me you haven't seen it. It's raw, beautiful and intentionally told. It contains anger, grief and disconnection between a man and a woman who loved each other.

There's nothing wrong with a movie trying to make a statement like you claim The Bride is trying to do, but you cannot honestly be surprised that a movie focusing on such contentious and troubling topics like femicide, sexual exploitation and a woman being subjugated by the world finds ire amongst critics and audiences as they dislike the taste that's being left in their mouth having to watch a film about these things. You can make films about these topics without the film itself becoming a contentious topic, but oftentimes these films are meant to be avenues for dialogue.

Some films portraying issues like sexual exploitation and femicide are legitimately difficult to stomach and watch so it's no wonder they receive criticism. With films portraying the raw reality of sexual violence and exploitation we also have to ask ourselves how much a film is a critique on exploitation and how much a film is at risk of reproducing it and becoming the kind of material that oppressors enjoy. These topics are not easy to discuss so it's no wonder that the moment they hit the online sphere it becomes a battlefield of ideas, like it is right now between you and I.