Another Friday means another round of fresh outta the box movies. With summer's end possibly mere weeks away, these are our last days to indulge in the pastime of escaping Austin's scorching good vibes to sit in distracted air-conditioned comfort. And in some parts of the country it's already fall, which means there's a bumper crop of new movies out!

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford: On one hand, this period drama (um, the title sort of gives away the plot) will probably be as long-winded and self-conscious as its title, but on the other hand, it features Brad Pitt and current "It" Affleck brother Casey in waistcoats--and if Legends of the Fall or A River Runs Through It are any indication, a Brad Pitt period piece can be watchable, especially if, as a viewer, you have ovaries.

Eastern Promises: Director David Cronenberg reunites with Viggo Mortensen (last seen in Cronenberg's A History of Violence) for a brutal tale of shifting allegiances in London's eastern-European mob underworld, co-starring Naomi Watts and a sinister Armin Mueller-Stahl.

Good Luck Chuck: In the newest raunchfest for the College Humor set, gimlet-eyed comedian Dane Cook plays a dentist struggling to break a curse in which all his exes find true love only after breaking up with him. Wait, surely that happens to Dane Cook in real life too? Jessica Alba does her best to channel Cameron Diaz as the clumsy babe of his dreams.

The Hottest State: Erstwhile squirrelly dreamboat Ethan Hawke directs this adaptation of his 1997 novel, chronicling the obsessive breakup between an actor from Texas (Mark Weber) and a Latina singer from...Connecticut?! (Co-starring the eminently crushworthy Catalina Sandino Moreno from Maria Full of Grace.)

In the Shadow of the Moon: This doc, which won Best Documentary at Sundance, mixes interviews with the aging Apollo astronauts who walked on the moon with awesome, newly remastered footage from the Apollo program.

In the Valley of Elah: The grizzled-to-perfection Tommy Lee Jones stars as a patriotic retired Army police officer on a grim mission to find out what happened to his AWOL Iraq-veteran son in this super-promising thriller by director Paul Haggis (Crash).

Lady Chatterly - This latest celluloid version of D.H. Lawrence's novel about an aristocratic woman who steps out on her invalid husband with the groundskeeper has won five Césars (the French equivalent of the Oscar) and it's the first to be directed by a woman (Pascale Ferran.) So you can feel validated in seeing it, even if you're only there for the endless, quiveringly graphic outdoor sex scenes.

Resident Evil: Extinction: Milla Jovovich in artfully shredded postapocalyptic zombie-hunting lingerie is always easy on the eyes, but will another phoned-in installment in the Resident Evil series convince anybody but hardcore fanboys to watch?

Sydney White: The latest slice of tweenager cheese presents crazy-eyed Amanda Bynes as a college-freshman "tomboy" who is too "real" for the sorority she joins. So she commences to try and fix the social system through Student Government, and it all sort of confusedly follows the arc of Snow White--the sorority girls are Evil Sisters, there are Seven Dorks, the fabled mirror is a Myspace page...Please, take the tween in your life to In the Shadow of the Moon, and not this.

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