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...minutes. If Tykwer's use of pixelated photos, split screens and cartooning in Lola gets you thinking that The International will offer a fizzily anarchic reimagination of the thriller genre, fuhggedaboutit. Running or stumbling a full two hours, this is a medium-IQ sample of spy dystopia - dour, sit-throughable and generically entertaining...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The International: The Banker As Bad Guy | 2/12/2009 | See Source »

...says, is a "person who can make a competent assessment and engage a patient's spiritual person in the service of health. When people say, 'I'm not sure you can help because I'm not very religious,' the chaplains say, 'That's not a problem. Can I sit down and engage you in conversation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Biology of Belief | 2/12/2009 | See Source »

Moviegoing is exactly what separates the audience from the Academy. You, dear ordinary cinephile, go to a theater and sit in a big room with a big screen on which, you hope, big things will happen. Those things are called movies. But the Academy balloters, by and large, aren't true moviegoers; the movies come to them, on DVD screeners. When the members, many of whom are on the set for 12 or 14 hours a day, do their Oscar homework, they want a retreat from the pyrotechnics they've been creating. They want dramas that are important yet intimate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How the Oscars Became the Emmys | 2/12/2009 | See Source »

...Cornelius says, there is nothing wrong with a little bit of belief. "Evolve beyond belief? There is always belief," Cornelius says. "After all, every time you sit down in a chair you have to have the belief that it will hold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A New Evolution Fight at Site of Scopes 'Monkey Trial' | 2/11/2009 | See Source »

...have any idea. When that time comes, Deborah and I sit down and we decide what the people of the 15th want, we decide what the good Lord wants, and then we decide what we want. That's a decision I make every two years, and I don't make it before the right time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rep. John Dingell | 2/11/2009 | See Source »

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