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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Most Like ...," but the similarities can be baffling. Rent the Indian drama Fiza and you'll be pointed to Season 1 of Scrubs and the Bakker biopic The Eyes of Tammy Faye. This is when I yearn for the guys behind the old Kim's counter. Not that every video-store clerk is a budding Quentin Tarantino, eager to point renters toward some arcane masterpiece from Italy or Hong Kong, but you do miss out on a face-to-face with a knowledgeable cinephile...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Netflix Stinks: A Critic's Complaint | 8/10/2009 | See Source »

Getting movies by mail is, Netflix hopes, just a stage between the Blockbuster era of video stores and the imminent streaming of movies. You can already get 12,000 Netflix titles on your TV (if you have a Blu-ray player or spring for a $100 Netflix box). So, O.K., soon there will be no more waiting for DVDs. But it'll come at a price. You'll be what the online corporate culture wants you to be: a passive, inert receptacle for its products...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Netflix Stinks: A Critic's Complaint | 8/10/2009 | See Source »

...rather go out to the movies. Or to a video store, even if it is in Sicily...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Netflix Stinks: A Critic's Complaint | 8/10/2009 | See Source »

...athletic achievement--and a writer could spend her whole career trying to craft a line that says so while also being deadpan hilarious. This is Keegan's debut, and she doesn't even hang out at the pool. ("I don't like chlorine," she says in a promotional video clip about the book. "It makes my eyes sting.") Nevertheless, she has written an ambitious and exhilarating novel about a girl for whom swimming is as vital as breathing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Master Stroke | 8/10/2009 | See Source »

...meanwhile, pay is simply one more risk factor that regulators should keep an eye on. "Once you accept that government is already regulating the business decisions of banks, I don't know why this particular business decision to compensate should be exempted from intervention," Bebchuk says. (Watch TIME's video of Peter Schiff trash-talking the markets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Should Executive Pay Be Regulated? | 8/10/2009 | See Source »

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