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41. Film

    Fast Track to Nowhere

    It's anime on overdrive in the Wachowski brothers' souped-up, tricked-out Speed Racer.

    By J. Hoberman

    Published: May 8, 2008

    Converting a fondly remembered cartoon series — one of the first Japanese animes syndicated on American television — into a prospective franchise, the Matrix...

42. Film

    Warrior King

    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. Film

    Now Playing

    Then She Found Me

    By Robert Wilonsky

    Published: May 8, 2008

    First-time writer-director Helen Hunt stars as April Epner, a schoolteacher desperate to have a child before she turns 40 (Hunt herself turns 45 this year, but never mind...

44. Art

    Madness and Art

    A local gallery spreads the spotlight on artists at the margins.

    By Carlos Suarez De Jesus

    Published: May 8, 2008

    In a charming old two-story pink house on the corner of a quiet Little Havana street, several middle-age folks are gathered at a dining table for lunch. Some appear medicated...

45. Stage

    The M Ensemble's Mastery

    From the Mississippi Delta is the troupe's top show of the season.

    By Brandon K. Thorp

    Published: May 8, 2008

    We're getting to this one a few weeks late, and that's wrong. There isn't a single person in eyeshot of this newspaper who couldn't benefit from From the Mississippi Delta...

46. Current Art Shows

    Art Capsules

    Published: May 8, 2008

    Wifredo Lam in North America More than a quarter-century after his death, Cuba's greatest artist is getting his due in the first large-scale solo exhibition. The beautifully...

47. Game On

    Still Lapping It Up

    There's more of the same in Mario Kart Wii, and that just might be plenty.

    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...