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...with the plot. A 15-year-old lad named Michael Berg (David Kross, giving a splendidly modulated performance of teen angst, sexuality and intellectual aspiration) falls ill in the entrance of an apartment building in 1950s Germany. He is rescued by an attractive working-class woman named Hanna (Kate Winslet in a performance that heartbreakingly combines passivity and anger) who arranges his return home. When he comes back to thank her for her aid, they embark upon a heated sexual relationship, which, in due course, she abruptly breaks off. Some years later, as a law student, he visits a courtroom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Reader: Love and the Banality of Evil | 12/10/2008 | See Source »

Revolutionary Road Richard Yates' devastating 1961 novel about a couple whose marriage implodes amid the cocktails and commuter trains of '50s suburbia may be the best book you've never read. So read it now--then see the film, starring Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Short List | 12/4/2008 | See Source »

...good romantic comedy is like a good holiday break. You want to revisit it. You want to start conversations with "Remember when ..." This is not that film, not even with Jude Law, Kate Winslet, Jack Black and Cameron Diaz. This is more like a weekend doing laundry. Not awful, just...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Downtime: Mar. 26, 2007 | 3/15/2007 | See Source »

Christians normally reserve this vehemence for a different place name beginning with H. But this was war. Hollywood, no longer satisfied with trying to undermine Christianity, was taking a shovel, pickax and video camera and trying to physically destroy it. The man who showed us Kate Winslet's breasts in Titanic was boasting that he had brought God to Manhattan in a box and DNA-tested him like a dinosaur femur...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hollywood vs. Jesus | 3/1/2007 | See Source »

...Little Miss Sunshine.”Best Actress: Penelope Cruz, “Volver”; Judi Dench, “Notes on a Scandal”; Helen Mirren, “The Queen”; Meryl Streep, “The Devil Wears Prada”; Kate Winslet, “Little Children”Embodying Queen Elizabeth II, Mirren has demolished the competition and stands alone as the one to beat. Cruz, whose English language films like “Vanilla Sky” and “Sahara” have never showcased her talent, has been...

Author: By Christopher C. Baker, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Boobs, Politics, and Golden Statues | 2/8/2007 | See Source »

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