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Intellect outweighs story in "Girls" revival 10 May 08, 01:28 ET Reuters - Making its Broadway debut in a handsome and beautifully acted production by the Manhattan Theatre Club, Caryl Churchill's 1982 play "Top Girls" proves as intellectually daring and dramatically unsatisfying as it was upon its premiere more than a quarter-century ago. more Docu chronicles family that surfed together 9 May 08, 21:03 ET Reuters - When you've got a subject as colorful as legendary surfer Dr. Dorian "Doc" Paskowitz at your disposal, you'd have to mess up pretty seriously not to have an engaging documentary on your hands. more Billboard CD reviews: Death Cab, Black Angels 9 May 08, 19:58 ET Reuters - Death Cab for Cutie, that poster boy for sensitive indie pop, proves there's some grit behind all that pretty, "OC"-approved music with "Narrow Stairs." The follow-up to 2005's "Plans" provides welcome evidence of growth: more From couch to court, Gabriel Byrne charms in 'Camelot' 9 May 08, 06:30 ET AP - He can't sing and he can't dance, but Gabriel Byrne can charm - and he did while portraying the chivalrous King Arthur in "Camelot." more Page compels, but "Fragments" never jells 9 May 08, 00:00 ET Reuters - A failed cinematic experiment notable mainly for its fine starring performance by a pre-"Juno" Ellen Page, "The Tracey Fragments" provides more evidence (not that any was needed) that an extensive use of split-screen visuals is far more irritating than arresting. more "Vice" traffics in cop-movie posturing 8 May 08, 23:59 ET Reuters - The cliches fly faster than the bullets in "Vice," a B-movie with loftier affectations and all the gritty authenticity of Cheez Whiz. more Marital warfare strains for laughs in "Vegas" 8 May 08, 20:53 ET Reuters - A mean-spirited streak is creeping into studio-manufactured rom-coms these days -- you know, where someone wants to sabotage his best friend's wedding. This escalates in Fox's "What Happens in Vegas," a film that views marriage as a combat sport. more `Rafta, Rafta' gently lampoons generational differences 8 May 08, 18:55 ET AP - Picture two young people trying to enjoy their wedding night in the bedroom right next to the groom's parents, and you'll get an idea of the frustrating yet touching comedic premise of Ayub Khan-Din's warmhearted play, "Rafta, Rafta ...," currently in a New Group production at off-Broadway's Acorn Theatre. more A family that built Saudi Arabia, and shaped a wayward son 8 May 08, 18:26 ET AP - "The Bin Ladens: An Arabian Family in the American Century" (The Penguin Press, 575 pages, $35): In Steve Coll's "Ghost Wars," the Pulitzer Prize-winning 2004 account of the CIA, Afghanistan and Osama bin Laden, the bin Laden family gets passing treatment. more Capsule reviews of `Speed Racer' and others 8 May 08, 15:34 ET AP - Capsule reviews of films opening this week: more

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