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The Soloist (12A) ****

FILMS dominated by a couple of actors doing fine work don’t come along as often as we might wish, so that’s one reason to catch this moving new film from British director Joe Wright (Pride & Prejudice / Atonement).Read

The Crimson Wing (PG) ****

IF A 78-minute documentary film about flamingos sounds like it won’t have much legs in the cinema you’d be right.Read

Wanted (15) ****

Working for those offering him most money, Radhe switches from one gang to another.Read

Creation (PG) ****

AS WATCHABLE as it is thought-provoking and inspirational, Creation is a film that will help children see the bigger picture in class and to realise the answer to the most important question of all: ‘Why am I learning this?’Read

Surrogates (12A) ****

IF YOU like sci-fi thrillers Westworld, Total Recall, Minority Report and I, Robot then plug yourself into Surrogates.Read

Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs 2D/3D (U) *** (with trailer)

THE title of this inventive comedy fantasy animation sounds like a weather forecast you might expect to hear on BBC WM... if you were planning a day out at the IKEA store and restaurant next to Junction 9 of the M6.Read

Maggie revels in mother role

AFTER winning huge acclaim in her breakthrough role opposite James Spader in the saucy movie Secretary, Maggie Gyllenhaal, like brother Jake, has emerged as one of Hollywood’s hottest talents.Read

The Firm (18) *

BRITISH writer-director Nick Love is an acquired taste for the DVD generation – and now he’s entering pointless remake territory.Read

Away We Go (15) **** (with trailer)

SAM MENDES has already had one movie out this year already – and Revolutionary Road is still riding high in my 2009 top ten to date having haunted me for weeks after seeing it.Read

Gamer (18) * (with trailer)

THE global video gaming market is forecast to be worth more than $75 billion within four years.Read

Pixar boss John's still Buzzin'

THE best things in life are often said to happen in threes.Read

I want to be a playwright

JESSE Eisenberg has chosen an unusual career path.Read

The September Issue (12A) ****

I’M A BLOKE with no particular interest in fashion.Read

Adventureland (15) ****

SET IN 1987 and taking its name from a theme park, Adventureland treads not dissimilar ground to last week’s release (500) Days of Summer.Read

Whiteout (15)

KATE Beckinsale keeps making films for distributor Entertainment which, more often than not, refuses to offer regional preview screenings on the grounds of lack of prints/piracy issues.Read

Sorority Row (15) **

THE HOUSE on Sorority Row, aka Seven Sisters, is a little-known 18-certificate horror film from 1983 which was cleverly taglined ‘When the nightmare ends... the terror begins’.Read

Julie & Julia (12A) ****

SHE might have turned 60 in June, but there’s no stopping Meryl Streep – as her latest brilliant performance illustrates.Read

Fish Tank (15)

TO PARAPHRASE sci-fi writer Philip K Dick (Total Recall), if anybody wants a truly bleak, two-hour snapshot of the downside of modern British life, this film will deliver it for you wholesale.Read

Bumper crop of top films

WITH the Holy month of Ramadan coming to an end, Vue Star City Birmingham is gearing itself for big blockbuster releases to mark the beginning of the Eid celebrations.Read

Dorian Gray (15) ***

WHERE would director Oliver Parker be without a master wordsmith to fall back on?Read