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Without the clichéd finale of brining in a deus ex machina, the US and the European Union have several ways to reach the climax in this story, yet all share the recurring quality of ambiguity. The first one is the status quo: keep pressuring and negotiating with both Teheran and the Kremlin, and writing large checks for opposition groups from CIA accounts. In a time of urgency, however, this might seem like a more long-term project than Brussels or Washington are willing to accommodate...
...title of Pope Benedict XVI's first encyclical, "God Is Love," might suggest a religious twist on a late Beatles song, but to those who know the life's work of Professor Joseph Ratzinger, the 72-page document "Deus Caritas Est" carries the imprint of an exceptionally clear-minded and utterly convinced Catholic theologian...
...Still, Ratzinger's writings-dating back to his seminal 1968 work "Introduction to Christianity," in which he confronts many of the same themes addressed in "Deus Caritas Est"-stand out for their depth of thought and clarity of prose. He never shies away from confronting the modern challenges to faith head-on, rendering his work relevant for believer and non-believer alike. An avid Mozart fan, the new Pope might even be open to the message from the old Beatles' song "All You Need is Love." He would insist, of course, on ergo to the title: "All You Need...
...only superhero—in fact, the world’s only political superhero. Its protagonist’s remarkable abilities are an interesting wrinkle rather than the center of the plot. A civil engineer by trade, he stumbles onto a Generic Glowing Object (itself an instance of deus ex machina present in nearly every superhero’s origin story) that explodes and inscribes curving scars on his face reminiscent of the metallic tracery on a circuit board...
...frustrating nature of this film is that it pulls the audience in with a witty dissection of modern corporate life, but its conclusion refuses to really address the issues it brings up. There is an undercurrent to the entire movie reinforced by its far-too-easy deus ex machina that says that the world should revert to the traditional archetypes of the 1950s. It is a frustrating punk-out that a movie so interested in looking at modern mores should seem like it could be a remake of a 1950s Cary Grant-Warren Beatty comedy. Walking out, there...