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Regardless of the reasons for its success, the show has recently picked up more steam than the Polar Express lately...

Author: By Mary CATHERINE Brouder, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Ivory Towers Ups Presence | 12/6/2004 | See Source »

...ROUTES A drastic reduction in polar ice during summer months could open reliable shipping lanes along the northern coast of Russia and Canada, making transportation cheaper and increasing access to oil and other natural resources (admittedly a mixed blessing).  But there might also be more icebergs, which could limit the effectiveness of Arctic shipping...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Meltdown! | 11/22/2004 | See Source »

...stop about an inch and a half from your nose. Or possibly it's a much simpler effect--a snowfall that seems to be drifting down on you right there in the theater. Anyway, at some point very early in the 3-D IMAX version of The Polar Express, technology trumps banality and you helplessly surrender to the shock and awe of this big, often thunderous movie. And to a certain pity for the great mass of people obliged to conduct their children to the thousands of theaters in which the film is playing in its ordinary--or as they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Movies: All Aboard the Big Train | 11/22/2004 | See Source »

...likable. They are as wooden as Snow White's prince. And just because it is now possible to count every hair on their heads doesn't mean we want to. But look, it's not art. It's a head trip. You could argue, in fact, that the IMAX Polar Express returns movies to their most primitive beginnings, when the simple act of realistically capturing motion on a screen--narrative subtlety be damned--was sufficient to thrill, enchant and totally involve an audience. By that crude standard, this film is an experience not to be missed. Or, perhaps, repeated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Movies: All Aboard the Big Train | 11/22/2004 | See Source »

...IMAX: Polar Express glows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Table of Contents: Nov. 22, 2004 | 11/22/2004 | See Source »

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