“Ararat”
(out of four)
See review

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“Irreversible”
(out of four)
See review

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“A Man Apart”
New Line Cinema
Rated R
(Not reviewed)

Vin Diesel is a total bad-ass new action hero, but he also appears in independent films and tries to do dramatic stuff. He even played The Iron Giant. Theoretically, “A Man Apart” will feature him both kicking some ass and doing some acting, as he plays a drug enforcement officer who gets angry when a drug lord kills his wife. F. Gary Gray, the man behind “Friday,” directs.

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“Phone Booth”
(out of four)
See review

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“Till Human Voices Wake Us”
Paramount Classics
Rated R
(out of four)

Let us go then, you and I
To a movie that throws pacing to the sky
And tests patience with numb actors who look etherized.
Let us go through certain half deserted themes
And mutter that it seems
Shallow love stories can’t support the hell
That is watching stiff actors dutifully tell
Tales that turn T.S. Elliot’s work into a tedious film called “Till Human Voices Wake Us,”
And the pacing will leave time
To realize you don’t care and you don’t care
About Guy Pearce and Helena Bonham Carter’s mystical affair
Although the flashbacks to Pearce’s childhood are fair,
The film ends not with a bang, but with a whimper
[They will say “how he mixed up his Eliot poems! But how he at least understands them better than the film!"]

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“What a Girl Wants”
Warner Bros.
Rated PG
(Not rated)

Legendary Nickelodeon star Amanda Bynes stars in this remake of a 1958 film about a 16 year-old Nickelodeon star who goes to England in search of her father, a politician. Word has it that some genuine British people appear in the film, including the sexy Colin Firth and Jonathan Pryce.
jeremy@red-mag.com