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41. Cafe

    The historic Raphael Hotel’s restaurant tries to lure a younger crowd – but misses by a few years

    By Charles Ferruzza

    Published: March 26, 2009

    A month ago, the venerable Raphael Hotel on the Country Club Plaza, eager to connect with that desirable younger demographic, introduced Chaz on the Plaza. The dining room is...

42. Film

    Sunshine Cleaning

    By Robert Wilonsky

    Published: March 26, 2009

    More than a year after its first twirl at Sundance, this Amy Adams and Emily Blunt dramedy finally shrugs its way into theaters, and it almost seems like an afterthought. A...

43. Film

    Gomorrah

    By J. HOBERMAN

    Published: March 26, 2009

    Matteo Garrone's corrosive, slapdash exposé of organized crime in and around Naples comes on like Mean Streets cubed. Many of Gomorrah's characters and situations are...

44. Film

    Goodbye Solo

    By SCOTT FOUNDAS

    Published: March 26, 2009

    As William, a taciturn senior who seems to be planning for his final days, veteran character actor and former Elvis Presley bodyguard Red West takes center stage in Goodbye...

45. Film

    The Haunting in Connecticut

    By SCOTT FOUNDAS

    Published: March 26, 2009

    There's no rest for the dead — or the living — in this laughably hokey haunted-house hand-wringer based on yet another Amityville-style "true story." The trouble...

46. Film

    How About You

    By ELLA TAYLOR

    Published: March 26, 2009

    Again, grumpy old geezers are burnished into old dears just in time for Christmas by a rosy young beauty with problems of her own. The twist here: The embittered seniors...

47. Film

    Monsters vs. Aliens

    By Robert Wilonsky

    Published: March 26, 2009

    Monsters vs. Aliens is strictly playbook material for DreamWorks, makers of kidult-friendly pop-culture mash-ups. But it has one thing going for it that its predecessors did...

48. Film

    Timecrimes

    By Jim Ridley

    Published: March 26, 2009

    Less a mind-fuck on the level of 2004's ingenious Primer than a sort of mental canoodle, this modestly diverting slice of shoestring Spanish sci-fi, from writer-director and...

49. Stage

    The Rep tries to make beautiful music out of disillusionment

    By Alan Scherstuhl

    Published: March 26, 2009

    The book Winesburg, Ohio is often preoccupied with the question of how an artist might capture the truth of a place like Winesburg, Ohio, so I can't assume that author Sherwood...