Directed by first-timer Richard De Aragues

The editing is superb, the 3D looks great - the format has found a home with high-end docs, it seems - and the inevitable prangs are jaw-dropping, but towards the end you become aware of other riders who should have received more screen time. Directed by first-timer Richard De Aragues. Select. WARRIOR (140 min) MHere's a theory about how this bland, fight-themed cardboard drama came about: a couple of studio suits paid a visit to Hollywood's fabled Autowrite computer, which specialises in spitting out screenplays according to a supplied formula. They showed it Darren Aronofsky's The Wrestler and David O Russell's The Fighter, then said to Autowrite: "Do us one of these, but about mixed martial arts". Tom Hardy and Joel Edgerton play warring brothers from a broken family who are forcedtogether when their bedraggled ex-alcoholic dad (Nick Nolte - who else?) tries getting back into their lives. Grainy, hand-held cinematography can't lend authenticity to the forced emotion. The film is being plugged as being from "The director of Miracle". Miracle was a fine film, butGavin O'Connor also directed the terrible cop drama Pride and Glory (2008), which providesa much more accurate measure of the mediocrity of Warrior. Even the brutal fight scenes are a mess. If you have no idea what mixed martial arts is going into this film, you'll emerge none the wiser. General Rosetta Stone Software . WHAT'S YOUR NUMBER (106 min) MA Funny girl Anna Faris (Scary Movie; House Bunny) can't quite bring her signature charm to this largely charmless attempt at an adult rom She plays a promiscuous middle aged woman who believes the next man she sleeps with must be "the one"; offering advice is the oily, largely unlikeable Lothario across the hall (Chris Evans, aka Captain America). The film's satirical jabs at people addicted to Facebook and Twitter raises a few smiles in what is otherwise a straight-to-cinemas DVD release. Interestingly, this is the fifth mainstream American studio film this year to puncture the myth that lots of obligation-free, recreational sex leads to happiness. What is going on? General. THE WHISTLEBLOWER1/2 (104 min) MA In this extremely well-meaning, occasionally brutal, over-wrought slice of political filmmaking, an Americanised Rachel Weisz plays Nebraska cop Kathryn Bolkovac who, having failed as a mother at home, takes on a top-paying job in Bosnia. She there as a monitor for the United Nations, but soon sees the contractors she working for are into the human trafficking and sex slavery theyre meant to combat. Vanessa Redgrave adds her name to the cause and Weisz works hard as Bolkovac tries doing the right thing in a world of official corruption and immunity clauses, but the righteousness is laid on several layers too thick by first-time director Larysa Kondracki. Yes, the film is based on the experiences of the real Kathryn Bolkovac, but do we have to see her type out her inflammatory let-do-the-right-thing e-mail word for word, and in extreme close-up? Also, the closing minutes of the film suggest the most challenging parts of the story still remains untold. Select. ZOOKEEPER (102 min) PG From the unstoppable Adam Sandler hit factory comes this pleasant, kid-friendly, ultra-formulaic shlub-does-good comedy from the impossible-to-dislike Kevin James, who here reheats his loser persona from the shock hit Paul Blart: Mall Cop to become a passionate carer of talking zoo animals. After having his heart broken, he now trying to win back the affections of the money-seeking woman (Leslie Bibb in a fabulous, pivotal comic performance), though fellow zookeeper (Rosario Dawson) and his animal friends think he making a big mistake.

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