Critics commonly cite with approval actors who can “disappear” into their characters, but that’s rarely, in the best sense, held true of Kate Winslet. The British actress’ instinctive sensuality drives men crazy, but if her frank carnality is unapologetically contemporary, her body — a violin rather than a twig — has the old-fashioned voluptuousness of an early screen siren. Women love her, too, perhaps because no matter the caliber of the movie, her trademark has been an intelligent, subtly ball-busting stare into the camera or at her leading man, which insists she’s a woman who... More >>>