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The dyspepsia of Del Toro's performance is partly due to the bromides he has to enunciate - that the most important quality of a revolutionary is "love," and that he's not a Catholic but "I believe in mankind" - and partly because so little information is vouchsafed about his non...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soderbergh and Tarantino: Warrior Auteurs | 5/22/2008 | See Source »

In the '70s, no Cannes festival was complete without some sexually explicit film to stoke outrage and fill screening rooms. Those randy days are long gone, and this year the only erotic hoo-hah was for this intimate German drama about, to get right to the point, naked old people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Critical Snapshot in 10 Reviews or Less | 5/21/2008 | See Source »

The current government could have continued to hold out against Hizballah and clung to office and symbolic support from the West. But in the absence of any real central authority, the country was already starting to unravel along sectarian lines. Lebanon's multi-religious character and political system - which divides...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lebanon Agreement Buoys Hizballah | 5/21/2008 | See Source »

With flaring red lipstick on a face that hasn't seen much time in the California sun, and with a grieving matched in severity only by her will to learn the truth, Jolie carries the burden of the first hour. As the story expands, and finds new avenues of real...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Clint and Angelina Bring a Changeling Child to Cannes | 5/20/2008 | See Source »

These days, a visitor to Whitechapel would be hard-pressed to avoid one of the myriad Jack the Ripper walking tours crisscrossing its narrow streets. One operator, London Walks, says of the 140 tours it offers, the Ripper walk "is by far the most popular," the only one scheduled seven...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jack the Ripper Revisited | 5/20/2008 | See Source »

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