John Harlow in The [London] Sunday Times:
"The favourite for best actress was Kate Winslet, for her role in the controversial film The Reader. Though Winslet has been attacked for appearing in a film that arguably commits the unthinkable and humanises a Nazi, it has brought her a sixth Oscar nomination.
"She may be defeated only by the fear of her making a winner’s speech as incoherent as her emotional ramble at the Baftas."
