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"COUPLES RETREAT" -- Four married couples (among them Vince Vaughn, Malin Akerman, Jason Bateman, Kristin Davis and Jon Favreau) vacation at a tropical resort, not realizing that marriage counseling is mandatory there. Directed by Peter Billingsley. (PG-13, for sexual content and language.)

"SOUL POWER" -- A documentary about the legendary soul music concert staged in Kinshasa, Zaire, in 1974 to accompany a Muhammad Ali-George Foreman prize fight. Featuring performances by James Brown, Miriam Makeba, Celia Cruz and B.B. King. Directed by Jeffrey Levy-Hinte. (PG-13, for some thematic elements and brief strong language.

HELD OVER

"9" -- Rag-doll creatures struggle to survive in a post-apocalyptic world in this sci-fi computer-animated fantasy. With the voices of Elijah Wood and Jennifer Connelly. Directed by Shane Acker. (PG-13 for violence and scary images.)

"ALL ABOUT STEVE" -- Sandra Bullock stars as an eccentric crossword puzzle expert who falls for a TV cameraman and follows him around the country. Also starring Bradley Cooper and Thomas Haden Church. Directed by Phil Traill. (PG-13, for sexual content including innuendos.)

"CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF MEATBALLS" (3-D) -- A town copes with food falling from the sky in this animated take on the beloved children's book. With the voices of Anna Faris, Bill Hader, James Caan, Mr. T. and Tracy Morgan. Directed by Phil Lord and Chris Miller. (PG, for brief mild language.)

"DISTRICT 9" -- A human becomes an unlikely ally for aliens held in a South African ghetto in this twist-filled, high-intensity sci-fi thriller. Starring Sharlto Copley, Jason Cope and Vanessa Haywood. Directed by Neill Blomkamp. (R, for bloody violence and pervasive language.)

"FAME" -- Students sing, dance and dream of stardom in a reimagining of the hit film and TV show about a school for performing arts. Starring Debbie Allen, Kelsey Grammer, Asher Book, Kristy Flores, Paul McGill and Naturi Naughton. Directed by Kevin Tancharoen. (PG, for thematic material including teen drinking, a sexual situation and language.)

"THE FINAL DESTINATION" -- The fourth installment in the cursed-teens series features more gory endings as Death does what Death does. Starring Bobby Campo, Shantel VanSanten and Krista Allen. Directed by David R. Ellis. (R, for strong violent/gruesome accidents, language and a scene of sexuality.)

"GAMER" -- In a future where video games can manipulate humans on a mass scale, a master player schemes to take down a sinister game inventor. Starring Gerard Butler, Michael C. Hall and Zoe Bell. Directed by Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor. (R, for frenetic sequences of strong brutal violence throughout, sexual content, nudity and language.)

"G-FORCE" (3-D) -- An action comedy about guinea pigs trained as covert operatives. Yes, you read that right. With the voices of Nicolas Cage, Penelope Cruz, Bill Nighy, Will Arnett, Sam Rockwell and Tracy Morgan. Directed by Hoyt Yeatman. (PG, for some mild action and rude humor.)

"HARRY POTTER AND THE HALF-BLOOD PRINCE" -- The sixth installment of the popular book and film series reunites Harry and his friends as dark times continue to threaten the world. Directed by David Yates. (PG, for scary images, some violence, language and mild sensuality.)

"ICE AGE: DAWN OF THE DINOSAURS" -- The gang runs into a few dinosaurs in part three of the popular animated franchise. Featuring the voices of Ray Romano, Queen Latifah, Denis Leary and John Leguizamo. Directed by Carlos Saldanha. (PG, for some mild rude humor and peril.)

"THE INFORMANT!" -- Matt Damon stars in this Steven Soderbergh farce about a real-life whistleblower who was almost as dirty as the folks he blew the whistle on. Also starring Scott Bakula and Joel McHale. (R, for strong language.)

"INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS" -- Brad Pitt heads an ensemble cast as a cigar-chompin' Army lieutenant who leads a pack of Jewish soldiers on a let's-get-the-Nazis hunt through occupied France in director Quentin Tarantino's rewrite of World War II. Also starring Christoph Waltz, Melanie Laurent, Mike Myers, Eli Roth, Daniel Bruhl and Diane Kruger. (R, for strong graphic violence, language and brief sexuality.)

"THE INVENTION OF LYING" -- Ricky Gervais stars in a comic fantasy about a man who discovers the value of fibbing in a world where everyone tells the truth. Also starring Jennifer Garner, Tina Fey, Jonah Hill and Jason Bateman. Directed and written by Gervais and Matthew Robinson. (PG-13, for language including some sexual material and a drug reference.)

"JENNIFER'S BODY" -- Megan Fox is a cheerleader possessed, who starts killing off her male classmates in this horror comedy written by Diablo Cody, the writer of "Juno." Also starring Amanda Seyfried, Adam Brody and Chip Simmons. Directed by Karyn Kusama. (R, for sexuality, bloody violence, language and brief drug use.)

"LOVE HAPPENS" --Aaron Eckhart is a self-help guru who has written of his wife's death; Jennifer Aniston is the woman he meets at one of his seminars in this romantic weeper. Also starring Dan Fogler, Judy Greer and Martin Sheen. Directed by Brandon Camp. (PG-13, for some language including sexual references.)

"PANDORUM" -- Astronauts awaken from cryogenic sleep aboard a spaceship and can't remember who they are or what their mission is. Starring Dennis Quaid, Ben Foster and Cam Gigandet. Directed by Christian Alvart. (R, for strong horror violence and language.)

"THE PROPOSAL" -- Sandra Bullock plays a high-powered Canadian-born book editor who plots to marry her American assistant (Ryan Reynolds) in order to stay in the U.S. Also starring Mary Steenburgen, Craig T. Nelson and Betty White. Directed by Anne Fletcher. (PG-13, for sexual content, nudity and language.)

"SURROGATES" -- In the future, where people live in isolation and interact through their robots, a cop must leave his home to investigate a murder. Starring Bruce Willis, Radha Mitchell, James Cromwell and Ving Rhames. Directed by Jonathan Mostow. (PG-13, for intense sequences of violence, disturbing images, language, sexuality and a drug-related scene.)

"TOY STORY 1 and 2" (3-D) -- Tom Hanks and Tim Allen are back as the voices of Woody and Buzz in a 3-D double-feature of the movies that started the computer animation craze. "Toy Story" directed by John Lasseter; "Toy Story 2" directed by Lasseter and Ash Brannon. Both feature the voices of John Ratzenberger, Don Rickles, Wallace Shawn and Jim Varney; "Toy Story 2" adds Joan Cusack and Kelsey Grammer to the mix. (Both rated G.)

"TYLER PERRY'S I CAN DO BAD ALL BY MYSELF" -- Filmmaker Perry's latest features Taraji P. Henson as a boozy singer forced to raise her delinquent niece and nephews. Also starring Perry (as Madea), Adam Rodriguez, Brian White and Hope Olaidé Wilson. (PG-13, for mature thematic material involving a sexual assault on a minor, violence, drug references and smoking.)

"WHIP IT" -- Drew Barrymore directs and co-stars with Ellen Page as a small-town beauty queen turned roller-derby ruffian. Also starring Marcia Gay Harden, Juliette Lewis and Kristen Wiig. (PG-13, for sexual content including crude dialogue, language and drug material.)

"ZOMBIELAND" -- A fearless gun lover and a scaredy cat join forces in a world overrun by flesh-eating zombies in this horror comedy. Starring Woody Harrelson, Jesse Eisenberg, Abigail Breslin and Emma Stone. Directed by Ruben Fleischer. (R, for horror violence/gore and language.)

-- Compiled by the Yakima Herald-Republic