NEW FILMS FRIDAY
- ARARAT — Acclaimed director Atom Egoyan returns with this drama, which uses the film-within-in-a-film gimmick to help tell the story of the 1915-18 Armenian Holocaust. In English, Armenian and French, with English subtitles. R (violence, profanity, gore, nudity, drugs, sex, rape). (Broadway.)
- DYSFUNKTIONAL FAMILY — Concert film starring comedian Eddie Griffin, who is shown visiting his family during a tour stop in Kansas City. A selection of the 2003 Sundance Film Festival. R (racial epithets, profanity, vulgarity, brief sex, brief nudity). (Century, Jordan Landing.)
- THE GREATEST ADVENTURE OF MY LIFE — Independently released feature about a young Kentucky boy who runs away from home to join the Union Army during the Civil War. Pat Hingle stars. Not rated, probably PG-13 (violence, profanity, gore). (Ritz.)
- IRREVERSIBLE — Writer-director Gaspar Noe's "urban-horror" tale caused a sensation at this year's Sundance Film Festival for its graphic scenes of violence, including sexual violence. Vincent Cassel and Monica Bellucci star. In French and Spanish, with English subtitles. Not rated, probably NC-17 (violence, profanity, nudity, vulgarity, rape, gore, sex, drug use, racial epithets). (Tower.)
- A MAN APART — The title character is an undercover agent (Vin Diesel) who decides to take revenge on the members of the drug cartel that murdered his wife. Larenz Tate co-stars. R (violence, profanity, gore, drugs, nudity, racial epithets, vulgarity, brief sex). (Carmike 12; Century; 5-Star; Gateway; Holladay; Jordan Commons; Jordan Landing; Megaplex 12; Redwood, with "Old School"; Ritz.)
- PHONE BOOTH — Long-delayed thriller starring Colin Farrell as a philandering publicist who finds himself pinned down in a telephone booth by a sniper (Kiefer Sutherland) with ulterior motives. R (profanity, violence, gore, vulgarity, racial epithets). (Carmike 12; Century; Gateway; Holladay; Jordan Commons; Jordan Landing; Megaplex 12; Redwood, with "Cradle 2 the Grave"; Ritz.)
- TILL HUMAN VOICES WAKE US — This Australian drama (with some supernatural overtones) stars Guy Pearce as a psychology professor haunted by past memories as he attempts to help an amnesiac (Helena Bonham Carter) recover hers. R (sex, vulgarity, brief gore). (Broadway).
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