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Puffed up with grand notions of their country's historical greatness, the mullahs have convinced themselves that their Middle Eastern importance and cunning diplomacy give Iran a tactical edge in the nuclear showdown. They scoff at U.S. arguments that Iran's huge oil and gas reserves make nuclear power needless...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Iran: Still Defiant | 12/17/2004 | See Source »

Perhaps Hollywood can't be trusted to make Hollywood-style movies anymore. When ancient-history films lumber like the elephantine Alexander, or when technological gewgaws abduct the magic of fantasy in films like The Polar Express, where can a curious cinephile go? China. That's where director Zhang Yimou blended...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Movies: Fine China, Kung Fu Style | 12/17/2004 | See Source »

I also agree with Marber: the movie's achievement is that "it manages to be realistic and dreamlike simultaneously. We wanted that semi-hallucinogenic atmosphere without seeming fantastic. We wanted it to feel like being in love, which is hermetic. It just keeps out the rest of the world." The...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Whatever Happened to Movie Sex? | 11/24/2004 | See Source »

The Incredibles has those characters, that heart. And after that poignant stretch of family dysfunction, the movie brings on its supervillain--Mr. I's onetime groupie Incrediboy, now the cunning, gadget-obsessed Syndrome (Jason Lee)--and explodes into the year's wittiest, zippiest adventure, with each knockout action sequence eclipsing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Movies: All Too Superhuman | 10/25/2004 | See Source »

With rolling acoustic guitar rhythms and soft vocals, the music of the Beautiful Girls could pass for something in the genre of mellow rockers like the Dave Matthews Band, David Gray or the famed college band, Dispatch. But it is with the addition of cunning rap solos to gentle melodies...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New Music | 10/22/2004 | See Source »

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