New Delhi, March 14 -- Rachel Weisz has the kind of classical beauty that could launch ships or sink them, cheekbones like alabaster and eyes that smoulder by default, but her real genius is making that face a canvas for the uncontainable. In The Favourite (JioHotstar), her Lady Sarah is a political shark written like a Jane Austen heroine who's mislaid her patience. She's the mad queen's lover, handler, speech writer, counsellor, bully and best friend, a single person embodying court, cabinet and confessional. It's objectively absurd, yet Weisz sells it with cold authority. Across her career she's done klutzes, idealists, addicts, cheats and twins, but Lady Sarah may be the purest expression of her singular gift: to make women who should...