Kate Winslet

By John Lichman When it comes to lazy film clichés, Nazis are one step above slow-motion gunfights and barely underneath “the hero must get the girl and save the day.” It’s fitting that Nazis manage to encompass everything  from being the symbol for the Big, Bad Guy to perversion, occult beliefs and Holoc...

By Karina Longworth I take comfort that it’s not as bad as it could have been. When divorced from its source, Revolutionary Road is a pefectly servicable film. Mendes may dispose of much of the meat of Yates, but he hasn’t made a film without something to say. Road’s thesis is that the present is only tolerable when...

By Christopher Campbell As much as the Academy loves Streep and Winslet (and Kidman and Cate Blanchett), and as much as voters like an Oscar comeback from a relatively M.I.A. past nominee like Scott Thomas (see Julie Christie, Sissy Spacek, Ellen Burstyn, etc.), the Academy really seems to have a thing for young, pre...