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41. Film

    Dull Roar

    The odd upside of Robert Redford's terribly earnest, quite terrible war drama.

    By ELLA TAYLOR

    Published: November 8, 2007

    Less a war drama than a set of dueling position papers, Robert Redford's Lions for Lambs may be the gabbiest movie ever made about American foreign policy — and it wasn't...

42. Film Feature

    What's Wrong With This Picture?

    Robert Redford and the American façade.

    By SCOTT FOUNDAS

    Published: November 8, 2007

    Although he plays a college professor in his latest film, Robert Redford was, by his own admission, never much of a student, consistently more interested in what was going on...

43. Stage

    Good Grief

    In Bert Royal's imagination, teenage Peanuts characters still make us cynical and hopeful.

    By Alan Scherstuhl

    Published: November 8, 2007

    My favorite Peanuts comes from late February 1956. In it, Charlie Brown explains to Lucy that she's wrong to insist that the sidewalks of their faceless suburb are "pointed."...

44. Art

    Soil Service

    The new Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art changes the landscape.

    By Dana Self

    Published: November 8, 2007

    This was worth the wait. In the elegant and subtle new Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, architect Kyu Sung Woo has designed a light-filled space whose primary duty is to...

45. Art Capsules

    art exhibitions

    By Chris Packham and DANA SELF

    Published: November 8, 2007

    Bountiful Nora Othic's archetypal figures and her dynamic, posed compositions evoke regionalists such as Thomas Hart Benton and Grant Wood but also such mid-20th-century...

46. DVDish

    The Kids Were Alright

    By Robert Wilonsky

    Published: November 8, 2007

    Sesame Street: Old School Volume 2 (Genius) On the heels of the Electric Company boxed sets, which were at once educational and groovy as all get-out, comes the latest in...

47. What Else Is New?

    Our top DVD picks scheduled for release this week:

    Published: November 8, 2007

    The Best of the Colbert Report (Paramount) Blame It on Fidel! (Koch Lorber) Blood Car (TLA) The Crown Prince (Koch) Deck the Halls (Fox) Election (Tartan) Flight of the...

48. Game On

    A Little Sucky-Sucky

    Two vampire classics are back. Unfortunately, this time they bite.

    By Gary Hodges

    Published: November 8, 2007

    Castlevania, the vampire-hunting series that stretches over 20 years and as many games, has basically two kinds of fans. There are the traditionalists, who've followed the...