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41. Film

    Son of Rambow: A movie that celebrates why we make movies

    By Jim Ridley

    Published: May 8, 2008

    No adult has ever been able to codify what separates a good movie from a classic. In kid terms, though — those favored by Son of Rambow, a chipper tribute to the cinema...

42. Film

    Director David Mamet and his hero fight the power and succumb to it in Redbelt

    By J. Hoberman

    Published: May 8, 2008

    David Mamet's Redbelt is a tricky bar brawl — call it the Roundhouse of Games. The writer-director has scarcely abandoned his sense of the movies as an innately...

43. Stage

    Speak Spanish to Me at the Herberger Theater leaves Robrt L. Pela looking for the exit

    By Robrt L. Pela

    Published: May 8, 2008

    The most sparkling bit of dialogue I heard the other night at Actors Theatre's production of Speak Spanish to Me came from the charming lady seated on my left. At intermission,...

44. Brown Town

    Marcos Najera wonders what Brown Town would have been without his nona-Nana

    By Marcos Najera

    Published: May 8, 2008

    It was the strangest day of my life. It was one of the best days of my life. On a Saturday in early April, I went to a funeral, a wedding, and a 90th-birthday bash — all...

45. Game On

    Mario Kart Wii is nothing you haven’t seen, but so what?

    By Chris Ward

    Published: May 8, 2008

    This year marks the 16th birthday of Mario Kart, the landmark Nintendo franchise that consists of eight identical racing games and legions of fans who buy every one of...