Michele Shapiro

Michele Shapiro served as Time Out New York’s inaugural film editor before covering the pop culture beat as an entertainment editor and director for Glamour, Seventeen, and Self.

Film and TV

I Was Genuinely Moved by the Oscars This Year. Here’s Why.

Was it perfect? No. Occasionally self-congratulatory? Of course. But there were some genuinely joyous and important moments during this year’s Academy Awards

In still taken from the movie Hamnet, Agnes and Will stand in a forest, close together, as though they are about to kiss.

Film and TV

The World Might Be William Shakespeare’s Stage, But the Story Belongs to Agnes

In the movie version of “Hamnet,” Shakespeare’s wife Agnes, played with wild abandon by the actress Jessie Buckley, looms large with possibility.