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41. Film

    The Truth Won't Set You Free

    Multiperspective, mega-annoying Vantage Point.

    By Scott Foundas

    Published: February 21, 2008

    Remember the 1985 movie version of the Parker Brothers whodunit board game Clue, with its pre-DVD-era gimmick of multiple endings? Well, Vantage Point is like that, only...

42. Film

    Straight to Video

    Michel Gondry attempts to celebrate DIY filmmaking, but comes up short, stale, and flat.

    By Robert Wilonsky

    Published: February 21, 2008

    The pleasures of Be Kind Rewind do not extend far beyond the promise of its premise: Jack Black, magnetized and manic (yawn), erases every single videotape in the rental store...

43. Film

    Kids These Days

    Teen comedy Charlie Bartlett could use a dose of mean.

    By Ella Taylor

    Published: February 21, 2008

    Like most wannabe heroes of the eager-to-please teen comedy, poor little rich boy Charlie Bartlett (Anton Yelchin) is too charming by half and not nearly quirky enough....

44. Art

    Lamstravaganza!

    Why the outrage? MAM's Wifredo Lam show is art at its finest.

    By Carlos Suarez De Jesus

    Published: February 21, 2008

    More than a quarter-century after his death, Cuba's greatest artist is finally getting his due in Miami. "Wifredo Lam in North America," on view at the Miami Art Museum (MAM),...

45. Current Art Shows

    Art Capsules

    By Carlos Suarez De Jesus and Steph Hurst

    Published: February 21, 2008

    Fortunate Objects: Selections from the Ella Fontanals-Cisneros Collection: The show features 59 works in a mind-boggling hodgepodge of media by artists ranging from Damien...

46. Stage

    Dead Man Talking

    Kenny Carnes ponders life, mortality, and transformation on death row.

    By Brandon K. Thorp

    Published: February 21, 2008

    Kenny Carnes's Last Words wouldn't play well in the rest of the theatergoing world. A one-man show examining the human side of the death penalty, it simply wouldn't make sense....

47. Current Stage Shows

    Stage Capsules

    By Andrés Solar, Brandon K. Thorp and Frank Houston

    Published: February 21, 2008

    The Sorrows of Young Werther: Of the many reasons this adaptation of Goethe's play succeeds, the director's savvy use of the small venue ranks highest. Jesús Quintero...

48. Game On

    Hell Yes

    Dante's inferno rages on in Devil May Cry 4.

    By Chris Ward

    Published: February 21, 2008

    Let's just get it out right now: "Devil May Cry" is a weak-ass name for a wicked action game. But what's in a name? In three previous outings, the brutal, hella-challenging...

49. DVDish

    Laughing Pains

    By Robert Wilonsky and Jordan Harper

    Published: February 21, 2008

    Margot at the Wedding (Paramount) Margot (Nicole Kidman, or someone who looks just like her) is a fiction writer whose tales are based, uncomfortably and unkindly, on the...

50. What Else Is New?

    Our Top DVD Picks Scheduled for Release This Week

    Published: February 21, 2008

    Black Water (Sony) Catacombs (Lionsgate) Chaos (Lionsgate) Cops: 20th Anniversary Edition (Fox) The Death of Adolf Hitler (Koch Vision) The Easter Bunny Is Comin' to Town...