Next Week in Tickets: Films playing Boston 30 October 2026 - 5 November 2026

As the calendar flips from Spooky Season to Noirvember, it looks like Netflix is making an unusually hard push to get their awards contenders in theaters this year, even seeming to play nice with AMC!

• John Turturro plays The Only Living Pickpocket in New York in a lean-looking crime caper that also features Steve Buscemi, Tatiana Maslany, and Giancarlo Esposito. It's at the Somerville, the Coolidge, the Lexington Venue, West Newton, Dedham Community Theatre, Boston Common, and the Seaport.
  
  Christmas at the Kringles arrives just before Halloween, as it's a horror movie about a cult-like family that celebrates Christmas all year (and this probably gets it on VOD before the other holiday). It plays Boston Common and Causeway Street.
  
  The first of three Netflix movies hitting theaters this week is The Mosquito Bowl, with Peter Berg directing the story of four college football stars who enlist after Pearl Harbor and play one final scrimmage before being tossed into what is apparently one very gnarly battle. It's at Boston Common.
  
  The latest documentary from Jimmy Chin & Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi is Everest: The Other Side, which follows a couple aiming to not only climb the mountains steep north face - summitted much less often than the south - but ski down afterward. It's at Boston Common (including Imax Laser), the Seaport (Saturday/Sunday/Tuesday/Wednesday), and Assembly Row (including Imax Laser).
  
  Liam Neeson's latest action movie, The Mongoose, has him fleeing the manslaughter of ex-wife Marisa Tomei's husband in a flashy sportscar, and plays Boston Common. Fantasia premiere The Last Temptation of Becky (which, I'm not gonna lie, didn't keep me awake at the end of a long day) plays Boston Common Wednesday & Thursday.
  
  Documentary NAZA returns to screens with a full slate at Fresh Pond, daily shows at the Seaport, and Tuesday/Wednesday screenings in the Lexington Venue.
  
  Once Upon a Time in Hollywood also returns to Imax screens at Boston Common, South Bay, and Assembly Row ahead of the sequel in a few weeks. The Nightmare Before Christmas re-returns to Boston Common (RealD 3D) for the week, the Capitol Friday & Saturday, and Arsenal Yards Friday to Sunday. Scream plays Boston Common all week and the Seaport Friday; The Crow plays Boston Common and Causeway Street Friday/Saturday; Rocky Horror plays a possibly-unaccompanied show at Boston Common Friday in addition to the usual thing with Full Body Cast on Saturday. V for Vendetta plays Boston Common Sunday & Thursday (the 5th of November); Wild at Heart plays Boston Common Sunday & Tuesday and the Seaport Tuesday & Wednesday; Hell House LLC plays Boston Common Sunday.
  
  The BTS World tour stops in Sao Paulo for Live viewings at South Bay, Assembly Row Friday night with an encore Saturday afternoon. Rammstein: Live in Mexico City plays Boston Common Wednesday & Thursday.
  
  Wild Horse Nine has early access shows Friday night at the Somerville, Boston Common (Dolby Cinema), the Seaport, Chestnut Hill. There are secret screenings Monday at Boston Common, Causeway Street, Kendall Square, South Bay, and Assembly Row (long-ish, PG-13).
• The Coolidge Corner Theatre gets a 35mm print of Netflix's La bola Negra, which follows three generations of men during Spain's tumultuous 20th century, often grappling with their own sexuality. It plays on film when on screen #1 or #2, and The Devils still has 35mm showtimes when on screen #2.
  
  The Coolidge also opens documentary Once Upon a Time in Harlem, which restores footage the late William Greaves shot of a get-together of Harlem Renaissance titans in 1972 and fashions it into a feature.
  
  Halloween midnights conclude with Fright Night '85 on 35mm film Friday and an all-35mm Mummy Marathon on Saturday, kicking off with Boris Karloff in the 1932 The Mummy and Hammer's The Mummy's Shroud, with five more until folks finally get out at noon or so. For the kids that can't stay up so late, Frankenweenie plays Saturday morning. Then it's November and time for a program of wintry film noir, starting with On Dangerous Ground Sunday afternoon and Fargo in the later Cult Classics slot on Thursday. Monday's Big Screen Classic is Network, and there's Open Screen on Tuesday.
• Landmark Kendall Square seems to be up to six screens, adding Lea Seydoux in French Thriller Gentle Monster to the pre-Netflix lineup that includes Possible Love.
  
  The 1943 Phantom of the Opera is October's last Saturday Universal Monster Matinee, and then the Kendall starts their own Noirvember series with Double Indemnity on Tuesday, with Mean Streets kicking off a De Niro series on Wednesday.

• It's a quiet start to the week for South Asian movies at Apple Fresh Pond. The big opener is Telugu-language thriller Aadarsha Kutumbam House No: 47 (yes, they're using the "AK-47" abbreviation), with a seemingly flawless family ripping itself apart; it also plays Boston Common, Causeway Street. Telugu-language horror movie #CULT plays late Friday at Fresh Pond but through Tuesday at Boston Common, Marathi-language thriller Gondhal plays Saturday afternoon, and Gujarati-language drama Chatni plays Saturday night. Nepali sports comedy/drama Kabaddi 5: After the Final Match returns for a full week at Fresh Pond; Tamil-language actioner Jailer 2 continues at Fresh Pond and Boston Common. The big opener, though, is the big-budget adaptation Ramayana: Rise of a Legend, which starts Wednesday with both Hindi-language and English-language shows at Fresh Pond, Hindi-language (including Imax 3D Wednesday & RealD 3D) and English-language (including RealD 3D) shows at Boston Common, Hindi-language (including 3D) at Causeway Street.
  
  Vietnamese mystery Karaoke Murder opens at South Bay.
  
  Anime feature The Irregular at Magic High School: Yotsuba Succession Arc plays Boston Common, the Seaport, Assembly Row Sunday (subtitled) and Tuesday (dubbed). Tuesday is also "Godzilla Day", with Godzilla Minus Zero opening at the Museum of Science (Omnimax Tuesday only), Boston Common, (Imax Laser), South Bay (Imax Xenon), Assembly Row (Imax Laser) ahead of a wider release Friday.
• After a Friday Film Matinee of The Gate in 35mm, The Brattle Theatre is back on the IFFBosotn Fall Focus Film Festival's second leg, withRehearsals for a Revolution and Bedford Park on Friday; La Gradiva, Ashes, Everytime,Coward, and Split Rock on Saturday; Tangles, The Dreamed Adventure, Clarissa, andBitter Christmas on Sunday; Elsinore on Monday; I Play Rocky on 35mm Tuesday, and Behemoth! on Wednesday.
• The Harvard Film Archive ends their João César Monteiro series with his final film, Come and Go, on Saturday. After that, "Great Expectations: British Postwar Cinema, 1945-1960" turns the calendar with Halloween-ish screenings of Daughters of Darkness and The Three Weird Sisters on 35mm Saturday and noir-ish They Made Me a Fugitive on Sunday.
• The two main rep series at The Somerville Theatre wraps the Halloween Hullabaloo with House on Haunted Hill (35mm) & Dragonwyck on Friday and a 35mm print of The Rocky Horror Picture Show with Teseracte Players on Saturday. Sunday features Ukrainian/Soviet documentary The Eleventh Year with accompaniment by Psychedelic Cinema Orchestra in the afternoon and Concessions, a comedy about a movie theater's last day of operations, playing on 35mm with a Q&A featuring director Mas Bouzidi and actor Jonathan Lorenzo Price afterward. F— the Nazis returns Monday night with a 35mm print of Inglorious Basterds, while Cult Film Tuesday is Eraserhead on 35mm. Ski movie Warren Miller's Days Off plays Wednesday & Thursday (Miller, who died in 2018, apparently a brand name now).
  
  The Capitol has The Nightmare Before Christmas Friday & Saturday, plus a 6-hour "Celluloid Confidential" 16mm Horror Marathon presented by High Energy Vintage on Sunday.
• The Seaport Alamo pays accidental tribute to the late Sir Patrick Stewart with a 10th anniversary show of Green Room Friday night. They also wrap the Tohoscope series with Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla Saturday/Sunday/Wednesday. They also have Carpenter's Halloween, the '86 Trick or Treat, and Rocky Horror Saturday. They appear to be closed Monday and play Swingers on Thursday.
• The Museum of Science has Event Horizon on the Omnimax dome Friday & Saturday evening for the final Sci-Fi Supersized, with a Dia de Muertos show of Coco on Sunday and Godzilla Minus Zero on Tuesday.
• The Boston Jewish Film Festival kicks off Wednesday at the Coolidge with Belgian WWII romance The Soundman; director Frank Van Passel will be on-hand for Q&A afterward. On Thursday, they move to the Brattle for Our Bodies and Other Shames with director Jenny Lester & actor Malka Wallick, with Looking for Yashida playing at the JCC's Riemer-Goldstiein Theater in Newton.
• The Revolutions Per Minute Festival has enough events year-round that one can forget it's also an annual event, but the 2026 edition begins at Goethe-Institut on Thursday, with programs "Animated Beyond" and "Drawing Closer" free with RSVP.
• The ICA has a short film program "Feel no guilt in your desire" on Thursday night, part of their "90 Years" exhibition; all of these shorts were presented at the ICA during the 1980s.
• The Embassy Cinema finishes Halloween silents week with The Phantom of the Opera 1925 on Friday and Nosferatu 1922 on Halloween, then has 20th Anniversary Election Day specials of Idiocracy on Sunday & Tuesday.
  
  
• The Lexington Venue is open all week but Monday with Fjord (Friday/Saturday/Wednesday), The Only Living Pickpocket in New York, and You Can See Everything. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre and The Silence of the Lambs play Friday & Saturday, with American Doctor Tuesday to Thursday and NAZA Tuesday & Wednesday.
  
  The West Newton Cinema opens The Only Living Pickpocket in New York, Wicker, and Possible Love, holding over A Talent for Murder, Fjord (no shows Sunday/Wednesday), Wildwood, You Can See Everything, and Sense & Sensibility (no show Sunday). Documentary Your Attention Please plays Wednesday evening with director Sara Robin, writer/editor Jack LeMay, and executive producer Joni Siani on-hand for a Q&A.
  
  The Dedham Community Theatre has The Only Living Pickpocket in Now York, Fjord, and Sense & Sensability.
  
  How sick of Halloween do Salemites get by the end of October, or would they not live there if they didn't love it? Anyway, I expect big turnover for Cinema Salem next week, but for now it's Hocus Pocus, Practical Magic 2, Scream, and and Halloween Friday/Sunday/Wednesday/Thursday Friday/Sunday/Wednesday; The Craft Friday & Sunday. The Universal Monster Lineup is Frankenstein (Friday/Sunday), Dracula (Friday/Sunday), The Bride of Frankenstein (Sunday), The Invisible Man (Sunday), and The Creature from the Black Lagoon (Sunday). The Friday Night LIght show is The Crow. The Wednesday Classic is God Diggers of 1933, with Weirdo Wednesday next door. They're actually closed on Halloween!
  
  Breeder only opens at the Showcase in Dedham and the Liberty Tree Mall in Danvers after a ton of trailers in downtown theaters.

Well, dang, I guess it's the front row for Imax 3D Ramayana. I also figure to go big for Everest, have a full Sunday planned between Godzilla vs Mechagodzilla and the two at the Somerville, and check out The Only Living Pickpocket in New York. Might be last call for Primetime, Sense & Sensibility, and The Social Reckoning, so maybe try to squeeze those in. And we'll see if I feel like staying up for The Mongoose at any point; it'll make it to my Letterboxd page if so.

Next Week in Tickets: Films playing Boston 23 October 2026 - 29 October 2026

I'm glad a doc is going to be on a surprising amount of screens, but it's really squeezing my Asian cinema this week!

• Scratching my head over Clayface, because didn't producer James Gunn see how well the "make antiheroes out of villains you've got the rights to when their hero is sort of off-limits" worked out for Sony? Interesting, though, as director James Watkins has horror bona fides and a screenplay by Mike Flanagan & Hossein Amini. It opens at the Capitol, Fresh Pond, Boston Common (including Dolby Cinema), Causeway Street (XL), the Seaport, South Bay (Dolby Cinema), Assembly Row (including Dolby Cinema), Arsenal Yards (CWX), and Chestnut Hill.
  
  Wicker would maybe have fit into the Brattle's recent fablecore & more series, but just missed. It stars Olivia Colman as a fisherwoman staring down life alone until she has a neighbor (Peter Dinklage) make her a husband out of wicker - and when he proves kind, charming, and sexually adept, it makes the rest of the town envious! That opens at the Coolidge, Boston Common, Causeway Street, Kendall Square, the Seaport, South Bay, Assembly Row, Arsenal Yards, and Chestnut Hill.
  
  The new one from Laika, Wildwood, looks stunning from the trailers and like the best of the animated features where a young woman winds up in a strange realm on a quest, in this case for her baby brother. Shame there doesn't seem to be a 3D release, but you can see it in 2D at Fresh Pond, West Newton, Boston Common (including Dolby Cinema), Causeway Street, South Bay, Assembly Row, and Chestnut Hill.
  
  Taika Waititi's new film, Klara and the Sun features Jenna Ortega as an android purchased late in its model cycle that feels the need to improve the mood of her new family (or be recycled). It plays Boston Common (including Dolby Cinema), the Seaport, South Bay, and Assembly Row.
  
  A Talent for Murder casts Helen Mirren as Patricia Highsmith, who engages an envoy from her publisher (Alden Ehrenreich) in a game of wits as he tries to convince her to write a final Ripley novel. It opens at Boston Common and West Newton.
  
  Sasha Baron Cohen is still doing his in-character ambush stuff, with Ali G: Who Iz I? giving the title character of Da Ali G Show which spawned the Borat and Bruno movies a feature after 25 years. It's at Assembly Row.
  
  Music flicks this week include a BTS World Tour Arirang in Buenos Aires live viewing at South Bay and Assembly Row on Saturday & Sunday and Ozzy & Black Sabbath: Back to the Beginning plays Boston Common Wednesday & Thursday. Pet Semetary '89 plays Boston Common and Causeway Street Friday & Tuesday. The Nightmare Before Christmas plays Arsenal Yards Saturday. Marie Antoinette plays Boston Common and the Seaport Saturday & Wednesday (also Monday at the Seaport). Hell House LLC starts a 10th anniversary run at Boston Common on Thursday. Boston Common also has The Rocky Horror Picture Show on Thursday in addition to the usual Saturday night show (not sure if Full Body Cast is at the extra one). Monday has two mystery previews at Boston Common, Causeway Street, South Bay, and Assembly Row; "regular" at 7pm and "scary" at 9:30pm.
• The Coolidge Corner Theatre still has The Devils on 35mm film when plays on screen #2, which is most of the week, and while many of the other shows are on screen #1, I don't expect they're hauling the print up and down stairs.
  
  The Coolidge also opens Fjord for real after a number of word-of-mouth previews and award-presentation screenings, with the new Cristian Mungiu film starring Sebastian Stan & Renate Reinsve as a couple who relocates from Romania to Norway and courts controversy with how their conservative religion has them raising their kids. Also at the Lexington Venue, West Newton, Dedham Community Theatre, Boston Common, Kendall Square, and the Seaport.
  
  Suburban horror midnights this weekend are Arachnophobia in 35mm Friday and Crawl on Saturday. Sunday afternoon features both a Cinema Masala screening of Kaagaz Ke Phool and a 35mm print of Legend for "Prints of Darkness" (which also includes The Exorcist on 35mm film Tuesday, The Omen with a Jessica Ruffin seminar on Wednesday, and The Prophecy in the late "Cult Classics" slot on Thursday). Monday's Big Screen Classic is Alien (RIP Tom Skerritt), with Ganja & Hess on Tuesday, documentary Vincent Price: What Keeps Us Alive with an intro by his daughter Victoria on Wednesday, and a 35mm print of Poltergeist on Thursday.
• Landmark Kendall Square looks to be at four or five screens this week, one and a half showing the pretty terrific Korean film Possible Love ahead of its Netflix debut. Rep shows include Creature from the Black Lagoon (almost certainly 2D) for the Saturday Universal Monster Matinee, Nosferatu '24 for the Tuesday vampire "Retro" Replay, and The Thing '82 for John Carpenter Wednesdays.

• South Asian films at Apple Fresh Pond this week include Hindi-language spy comedy Udta Teer, Hindi-language thriller Tu Hai Meri Kiran, Hindi-language courtroom drama Prahaar: The Untold Story of Ujjwal Nikam, Telugu-language horror film 418 (at Fresh Pond through Sunday and also at Causeway Street), Nepali sports comedy/drama Kabaddi 5: After the Final Match (Friday/Saturday/Monday). Rajinikanth's latest Tamil-language flick Jailer 2 continues at Fresh Pond and Boston Common.
  
  Hong Kong comedy legend Stephen Chow directs (but apparently does not appear in) Kung Fu Soccer, which returns to the idea of the movie that saw him make a splash in the West, this time with a girls' school team playing in a tournament against similarly-superpowered sides; it plays Boston Common at inconvenient times. Also from China, Go For Broke 2 looks to be one of those in-name-only sequels that has the same setup but no actual continuity. I didn't like the first much at all, but this one does have Isabelle Leong and Sammo Hung, and plays matinees at Causeway Street.
  
  The 5 Centimeters Per Second playing at Boston Common is not a re-release of Makoto Shinkai's early feature, but a live-action remake, which apparently came out in Japan last year and just made its way here.
• The Brattle Theatre hosts the GlobeDocs Film Festival from Friday to Sunday, with live post-film Q&As for almost every presentation (and one on tape). One of the highlights is the Saturday night screening of short "A Tape: The American History of Nobuhiko Obayashi's House", which will be followed by a 35mm print of the film in question. There's also a virtual festival, with A Long Way To Go having a live Q&A on Monday.
  
  Docs continue on Monday with a free screening of Mr. Nobody Against Putin (which may be full), with a free Elements of Cinema screening of John Carpenter's Halloween later that night. After that, they welcome Karina Longworth for a couple nights featuring films from her latest season of "You Must Remember This" ("The Bisexuals"): Tuesday has a double feature of Dreams That Money Can Buy & Laura (the former on 16mm film, the latter on 35mm), and A Place in the Sun on Wednesday. Thursday has the start of the IFFBosotn Fall Focus Film Festival's second leg, with Jesse Eisenberg's The Debut (may already be in rush). Bummer that star Paul Giamatti's not still in town.
• The Harvard Film Archive starts a new series, "Great Expectations: British Postwar Cinema, 1945-1960", with Mandy (aka Crash of Silence) and The Yellow Balloon (35mm) on Friday, Pool of London and Thurn the Key Softly (35mm) on Saturday, It Always Rains on Sunday (aptly) on Sunday; and Hunted (35mm) on Monday. Saturday's Student Cinematheque matinee is Je t'aime, je t'aime paired with short "Un chien andalou", both on 35mm. Thursday's free presentation of Marie Antoinette with Sophia Coppola in person is sold out, although there will be a rush line if you're feeling lucky.
• The Seaport Alamo just doesn't believe in predictable showtimes for its series, with the latest ShawScope presentation, Godzilla vs. Megalon, playing Friday morning and Thursday evening rather than the usual Sunday, although the monthly-ish show of NOFX: 40 Years of Fuckin' Up is Saturday night as usual. Daughters of Darkness plays Monday night, with matinees of Making Marie Antoinette Tuesday & Thursday, and a "Fantastic Fest Presents" presentation of Restoration at Grayson Manor on Thursday.
• The two main rep series at The Somerville Theatre take a holiday this week, but they have Goblin doing a live soundtrack for Dario Argento's Tenebre on Sunday (followed my a mini-concert), and Watsky X Infinity on Monday has Watsky performing live to his visual album X Infinity for its tenth anniversary on Monday. The annual Halloween Hullabaloo starts Tuesday with Night of the Living Dead & House (the latter on 35mm film); Wednesday pairs Killer Klowns from Outer Space (35mm) & Phantasm; and Thursday doubles up on Steven King with Cujo (35mm) & Pet Semetary '89.
  
  (There's also a Channel Zero screening of Clara Bow talkie True to the Navy in the Micro, Friday night at 8pm; $10 cash outside the theater starting at 7:30pm and then I guess everyone heads downstairs together.
  
  The Capitol starts a new run of Capitol Classics with The Keep on Thursday, presented with HIgh-Energy Vintage. Monday is the last of the month, so the usual time for Disasterpiece Theatre.
• The Museum of Science has Alien on the Omnimax dome Friday & Saturday evening for Sci-Fi Supersized.
• The Museum of Fine Arts one more show from The Boston Palestine Film Festival, Chronicles from the Siege, on Friday night. They're at the Coolidge for the rest of the weekend with Habibi Hussein and Yesterday the Eye Didn't Sleep on Saturday, and closing night film Palestine Comedy Club on Sunday.
• The Boston Asian American Film Festival is back at ArtsEmerson's Paramount Theater with the "Families Forged & Found" shorts package and Y Vân: The Lost Sounds of Saigon on Saturday, with In Waves and the sold-out Montreal, My Beautiful on Sunday.
• WBUR's CitySpace hosts documentary Minnesota Neighbors on Tuesday, including a post-film conversation with director Patrice O'Neill and participant Frederick Melo.
• The Embassy Cinema has a Halloween silence week, with The Unknown on Tuesday, Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde on Wednesday, and The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari on Thursday, with The Phantom of the Opera next Friday and Nosferatu on Halloween.
• The Regent Theatre has the "Girl Winter" Film Tour on Thursday, featuring live music from Lexi Ugelow.
• The Lexington Venue has indie horror Clownspiracy Friday to Sunday, with Fjord (discussion group Wednesday) and You Can See Everything all week but Monday & Tuesday. They also start a mini-run of The Texas Chain Saw Massacre on Thursday.
  
  The West Newton Cinema opens A Talent for Murder, Fjord, Wildwood, and You Can See Everything alongside Sense & Sensibility and The History of Concrete (Sunday to Thursday). There's a "Behind the Screen" show of Friday Night Lights on Sunday.
  
  The Dedham Community Theatre has Fjord and Sense & Sensability.
  
  Cinema Salem October is still going strong with Hocus Pocus every day but Monday & Tuesday; Practical Magic 2 Friday to Sunday and Thursday, Scream Friday/Sunday/Wednesday, The Craft Friday/Saturday/Wednesday, and Halloween Saturday/Sunday/Wednesday/Thursday. The Universal Monster Lineup is Dracula (Friday to Sunday), The Bride of Frankenstein (Friday), Frankenstein (Friday/Saturday/Sunday), The Wolf Man (Friday/Sunday), The Invisible Man (Saturday/Sunday), and The Creature from the Black Lagoon (Sunday). The Friday Night LIght show is The Texas Chainsaw Massacre Part 2. The Wednesday Classic is Diabolique, with Weirdo Wednesday down the hall, and Miz Diamond Wigfall hosts The Shining on Thursday.
  
  DreamQuil is actually held over at the Showcase in Woburn. Fantasia 2025 selection Terrestrial opens at the Liberty Tree Mall in Danvers.

Kind of wavering between 5 Centimeters and True to the Navy on Friday; the former gives me more wiggle room for the HK stuff over the weekend but I've been curious about Channel Zero for a while. Already got a ticket for Godzilla vs Megalon and hope to squeeze Wildwood, Klara, and A Talent for Murder in there, hoping Wicker and (I guess) Clayface stick around. Updates on my Letterboxd page regardless.

Next Week in Tickets: Films playing Boston 16 October 2026 - 22 October 2026

Feels like we should be knee-deep in scary season and instead we're getting jumbo-sized docs, unlikely restorations, and a couple new versions of things from when I was in college.

• The biggest new version looks to be Georgia Oakley's take on Sense & Sensibility with Daisy Edgar-Jones and Esmé Creed-Miles, who give off a great sisterly vibe in the trailer although, boy, does the Ang Lee version cast a large shadow, and not just from last year's re-release. It's at the Coolidge, The Capitol, Fresh Pond, West Newton, Dedham Community Theatre, Boston Common (including Dolby Cinema & Spanish subtitles), Causeway Street, the Seaport (Dolby Atmos), South Bay, Assembly Row, Arsenal Yards, and Chesnut Hill.
  
  There's also a new Street Fighter movie, which looks to be a different sort of insane than the Van Damme version, although the reviews are pretty vicious. It's at Fresh Pond, Boston Common (including Imax Laser & Dolby Cinema & Spanish subtitles), Causeway Street (including XL), the Seaport, South Bay (including Imax Xenon & Dolby Cinema), Assembly Row (including Imax Laser & Dolby Cinema), Arsenal Yards (including CWX), and Chestnut Hill.
  
  I'm not sure if Whalefall is based on the same story as In the Whale, but it's a memorable situation, with a diver winding up swallowed by a whale and having to find a way to escape before his oxygen runs out. It opens at Fresh Pond, Boston Common (including Dolby Cinema), Causeway Street, the Seaport, South Bay, Assembly Row (including Dolby Cinema), and Arsenal Yards. Mildly surprised nobody's pulling the doc out for "see the real story" bucks.
  
  Documentary You Can See Everything is apparently even crazier than its unnerving trailer, starting out as an all-access look at Elizabeth Holmes before she reported to prison that so absolutely flummoxes the filmmakers that there's a whole second half to this 165-minute movie afterward. It's at the Somerville, the Coolidge, Boston Common (including XL), Causeway Street (including XL), Kendall Square, the Seaport, South Bay, Assembly Row, and Chestnut Hill. Another plus-sized documentary, Alex Gibney's 255-minute Musk, plays the Capitol and Boston Common, with select Boston Common shows on Friday including Q&A and introductions.
  
  Chris Rock directs Misty Green, starring Rosalind Eleazar as a former sitcom star whose career has stalled as she reaches middle age. It opens at Boston Common.
  
  Is Crawlers meant to be a remake of Infested, or does one building full of rapidly-spawning spiders that the authorities are going to fumigate with folks inside just look like another? It plays Boston Common. California Schemin', the directorial debut of James McAvoy (about two Scottish youths who pretend to be American to break into hip-hop) also opens at Boston Common, both with limited/inconvenient showtimes.
  
  Friday & Saturday shows of Trust Me, I'm a Doctor at Boston Common are marked sold out (although maybe that's to put a couple other shows of something else on), but it looks like Sunday through Thursday are on. It stars Kal Penn as a doctor implicated in the death of Anna Nicole Smith.
  
  Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother expands, adding South Bay and Assembly Row to the Coolidge and Boston Common. American Psycho plays Causeway Street and Boston Common Friday & Tuesday. Music doc Always Lalisa has an encore at Boston Common Saturday. Back to the Future plays Boston Common and Arsenal Yards on Wednesday. #Vymara, a found-footage horror comedy with a number of YouTubers playing themselves, plays Boston Common Monday. There's a Monday mystery preview at Boston Common, Causeway Street, South Bay, and Assembly Row.
• Digger in VistaVision is down to half the shows it was at The Coolidge Corner Theatre, which also picks up the new restoration of The Devils on 35mm film, at least when its on screen #2. It's the complete original director's cut in all its NC-17 glory, and, hey, the previous cut was intense itself! It also plays the Somerville and Boston Common.
  
  Midnight suburban scares at the Coolidge this weekend are Wes Craven's The People Under the Stairs on Friday and Scream 4 in 35mm on Friday. There's also Hook for early kids' shows on Saturday & Sunday. Prints of Darkness continues with 35mm prints of Fantasia on Sunday afternoon .Prince of Darkness on Monday evening (a science on screen presentation with BU physics professor Dr. Christopher Grant), Constantine on Tuesday, and Angel Heart on Wednesday. There's a special screening of The Awful Truth on Thursday as a tribute to local cinephile Stanley Cavell, with a sold-out "Rewind!" show of the 1998 The X-Files feature on a different screen.
• Landmark Kendall Square is very much a construction zone, still at five screens (and down to three later in the week), three showing You Can See Everything. Rep shows include The Mummy '32 for the Saturday Universal Monster Matinee, Let the Right One In for the Tuesday vampire Retro Replay, and Prince of Darkness for John Carpenter Wednesdays.
• I don't know if Rajinikanth is still a superstar, but his latest Tamil-language flick Jailer 2 opened at Apple Fresh Pond (which also has Telugu-language shows) and Boston Common Wednesday. Also opening at Fresh Pond are Telugu-language historic epic Ranabaali, Hindi-language Halloween comedy Nayyi Naveli, and Hindi-language legal biopic Prahaar: The Untold Story of Ujjwal Nikam. Hindi-language thriller Drishyam: The Conclusion continues at Boston Common.
  
  The week's Ghibli-fest feature is Spirited Away playing Boston Common and Assembly Row dubbed Saturday/Sunday/Wednesday and subtitled Monday/Tuesday. The first few episodes of YURI!!! On Ice play Monday at Boston Common, the Seaport, and Assembly Row.
• The Brattle Theatre has The Hiidden in 35mm for the Friday film matinee, then gets back to "Fablecore and More" with 100 Nights of Hero & The Fall (Friday/Saturday), Jacques Demy's Donkey Skin (Saturday), The Ugly Stepsister (Saturday), The Beast (Saturday), The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (35mm Sunday), Riddle of Fire (Sunday), Innocence (35mm) & Paradise Hills (Sunday), and PIaffe (Monday). The next couple days are special events, and then they pay tribute to Eva Marie Saint with a 35mm print of North by Northwest on Thursday.
• The Harvard Film Archive give folks a second chance to see Masaki Kobayashi's The Human Condition trilogy on 35mm film, with No Greater Love Friday night, Road to Eternity Saturday night, and A Soldier's Prayer Sunday afternoon. Sunday evening, they welcome Ross McElwee for a free screening of his latest film Remake (doors open 20 minutes before showtime, no reservations). Then on Monday, they wrap the Graham Greene series with a final screening of their new 35mm print of The Third Man.
• NAZA continues with matinees at The Seaport Alamo. Hellbound: Hellraiser II plays there on Friday. Spooky-season shows include The Craft Saturday afternoon, A Tale of Two Sisters and Psycho on Monday (the latter a free member screening tied to a K-Pop music video), and Manos: The Hands of Fate on Wednesday.
• The Somerville Theatre has a special "Silents, Please" show on Sunday, as the classic Universal Frankenstein is not a silent but also does not have a score, so Jeff Rapsis will be providing one.. Monday's F— the Nazis show is Surf Nazis Must Die, and the Tuesday Cult Classic is a double feature this week, with Phantom of the Paradise & Repo Man, the latter on 35mm film. IFFBoston alum The Great Experiment returns on Wednesday with a post-film Q&A, while documentary Democracy Noir: A New Dawn plays Thursday, followed by a discussion with filmmaker Connie Field.
• The Museum of Science has Blade Runner 2049 on the Omnimax dome Friday & Saturday evening for Sci-Fi Supersized, and a special preview of The Last Cache - a documentary about the search for scientific equipment left behind on a Yukon glacier in 1937 - on Tuesday, with filmmaker(s) on hand.
• The Museum of Fine Arts hosts The Boston Palestine Film Festival from Friday to Sunday, with a sold out screening of Edward Said: Between Worlds, a short program, and Who Killed Alex Odeh?. They also have An Incomplete Calendar at MassArt on Sunday, With Hasan in Gaza at the Coolidge on Monday, Traces of Home at the Brattle on Tuesday, Seeds of Liberation at Boston University on Wednesday and Umass Amherst Thursday, before returning to the MFA and Coolidge next weekend.
• The Boston Asian American Film Festival continues at ArtsEmerson's Paramount Theater with Breaking the Code Friday, .The Road to Sydney and Jersey Boy on Saturday, and Chinatown Cha-Cha on Sunday, with a different shorts package also playing every day.
• The Regent Theatre has documentary The Art of Adventure on Wednesday with filmmaker Alison Reid.
• The MIT Museum screen's Daved Abel's documentary Entangled on Thursday night with Abel on hand with Conservation Law Foundation's Erica Fuller.
• The Lexington Venue has French thriller Case 137 and NAZA from Friday to Sunday and on Thursday. Buddy plays Friday & Saturday, The Silence of the Lambs shows Saturday with a guest speaker, and documentary The Last Dive plays two matinees on Sunday.
  
  The West Newton Cinema opens Sense & Sensibility and holds over The Social Reckoning, Digger (Friday/Saturday/Sunday/Thursday), The History of Concrete, Primetime (Friday/Saturday/Sunday/Thursday), and Coyote vs. Acme. Wonder if they're doing some renovations/rentals with those less-busy days.
  
  The Dedham Community Theatre is the only place opening Apple's Tenzing, also playing Sense & Sensability and Digger.
  
  Still Salem's favorite month, so Cinema Salem has Halloween Friday/Sunday/Wednesday, Hocus Pocus every day but Monday & Tuesday; Practical Magic 2 Friday to Sunday and Thursday, Night of the Demons with Spooky Picture Show on Saturday, Scream Sunday/Wednesday/Thursday, and The Craft Sunday/Wednesday/Thursday. And, of course, Universal Monsters: Dracula (Saturday & Sunday), Frankenstein (Saturday), The Wolf Man (Saturday & Thursday), The Invisible Man (Sunday & Thursday), The Creature from the Black Lagoon (Sunday & Thursday), The Bride of Frankenstein (Sunday). The Wednesday Classic is The Mystery of the Wax Museum, with Weirdo Wednesday down the hall.
  
  Sci-fi thriller DreamQuil, with Elizabeth Banks as a woman who returns changed from a VR-boosted retreat (and an impressive cast around her), opens at the Showcase in Woburn, as does cabin-in-the-woods flick You Can't Leave. Brazilian spiritual drama Flywheel: Ignition of the Soul and cat-and-mouse thriller One Eye Open plays at the Liberty Tree Mall in Danvers.

Man, look at Monday night - Surf Nazis, 35mm Prince of Darkness, A Tale of Two Sisters, 35mm The Third Man, all in the 7pm hour. Anyway, I've got varied levels of interest in seeing Sense & Sensibility, Street Fighter, Whalefall, and You Can See Everything. I am actually really tempted by DreamQuil, but am I "more time on the bus than in the theater" tempted? Updates on my Letterboxd page regardless.

Next Week in Tickets: Films playing Boston 9 October 2026 - 15 October 2026

Busy week(end)!

• Other Mommy stars Jessica Chastain as both a young mother and what seems to start out as her daughter's imaginary friend before becoming far more sinister. It's at the Capitol, Fresh Pond, Boston Common (including Dolby Cinema), Causeway Street (including XL), the Seaport, South Bay (including Dolby Cinema), Assembly Row (including Dolby Cinema), and Causeway Street.
  
  Aaron Sorkin directs his follow-up to The Social Network in The Social Reckoning, with Jeremy Strong playing Mark Zuckerberg at a point in Facebook's more recent history where his and its power has become destabilizing, with Mikey Madison as a would-be whistleblower. It's at the Capitol, Fresh Pond, West Newton, Boston Common (including Dolby Cinema), Causeway Street, Kendall Square, the Seaport, South Bay (including Dolby Cinema), Assembly Row (including Dolby Cinema), Arsenal Yards, and Causeway Street.
  
  A new version of Angel and the Badman arrives from Angel Studios, with Zachary Levi as the injured outlaw, Meg Fraser as the woman who takes him in, Neal McDonough looking for revenge, and Tommy Lee Jones as the local sheriff. It opens at Fresh Pond, Boston Common, Causeway Street, and South Bay.
  
  This week's film from Scotland is The North, which features two lifelong friends trekking across the country together, and opens at Boston Common.
  
  What is it with Finns casting Samuel L. Jackson as the President of the United States (remember Big Game)? The Beast is Renny Harlin's second release of the year and has Jackson and a Secret Service agent (Joel Kinnaman) taking refuge in the armored (and apparently well-armed) presidential limo during an attack on Washington DC; it opens at Boston Common.
  
  Imax documentary Portrait of an Artist: Stephen Curry follows Curry in the lead-up to is
  
  4,000th career trey and looks at how his emphasis on those shots changed basketball; it's got limited matinees at Boston Common. The restored Queen Budapest encores at Boston Common (Imax Laser) and Kendall Square on Saturday; Filipino concert SB19 Wakas at Simula: The Trilogy Concert Finale has another show at Boston Common Sunday; Always Lalisa, focusing on the Thai Blackpink singer, plays Boston Common (Imax Laser) Monday & Wednesday
  
  Pan's Labyrinth gets a 20th Anniversary re-release that includes a 3D conversion, playing Boston Common (including RealD 3D), Causeway Street (including RealD 3D), the Seaport, and South Bay (including RealD 3D); Instructions Not Included also plays Boston Common for the weekly Hispanic Heritage Month show. 9 to 5 also gets brought back at Boston Common, the Seaport, Arsenal Yards, and Dedham Community Theatre to pay tribute to Dolly Parton. The original 1980 Friday the 13th plays Boston Common and Causeway Street Friday & Tuesday. Gone with the Wind plays Boston Common Sunday/Monday/Wednesday. Training Day plays Wednesday in Dolby Cinema at Boston Common, South Bay, and Assembly Row.
  
  Trust Me, I'm a Doctor has a preview Saturday afternoon at Boston Common. Grandmasters, a documentary on a competitive chess league launched with Magnus Carlsen that will apparently be broken down into a streaming series later, plays Boston Common Sunday & Wednesday. Horror anthology Fresh Meat plays Boston Common on Monday. Monday also has at least two secret preview screenings at Boston Common, Causeway Street, South Bay, and Assembly Row; one specifically for a horror movie, one for something else. There are early access screenings of the new version of Sense & Sensibility at the Capitol, Fresh Pond, Boston Common, Causeway Street, South Bay, Assembly Row, and Arsenal Yards on Wednesday. Some of the Thursday shows of the new Street Fighter at Boston Common (Imax Laser), South Bay (Imax Xenon), and Assembly Row (Imax Laser & Dolby Cinema) are listed as "Bonus Round Fan Event".
• Screen 1 at The Coolidge Corner Theatre is still dedicated to Digger in VistaVision, but they also open Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother, which aside from being the film director Bassam Tariq and Mahershala Ali made when Blade fell through, looks to be a thrilling picture about a hitman who suddenly becomes a single father and is squeezed by everything around him. Also at Boston Common (including XL).
  
  The Coolidge also picks up the new restoration of Unzipped, playing a relatively limited number of shows in the smaller rooms.
  
  The Coolidge After Midnight crew ventures out of Brookline to stage three double features on the deck of the USS Salem in Quincy, with Ghost Ship & The Fog playing Friday, Leviathan & Deep Rising on Saturday, and Jaws & Deep Blue Sea on Sunday; they also head to the Allston Speedway to show Final Destination 3 on Wednesday (maybe the last outdoor show of the season!). Sticking close to home, they continue their October run of suburban scares with Barbarian on Friday and It Follows on Saturday. There's a Cinema Masala show of Kaagaz Ke Phool on Saturday afternoon and a Goethe-Institut preview of the first two episodes of the new season of Babylon Berlin with director Henk Handloegten Sunday morning. There are four screenings of Fjord with director Cristian Mungiu in person as he accepts the Coolidge impact award, although both Sunday night show and the early Monday matinee are sold out, though tickets are still available for a 4pm Monday screening with an introduction. Monday's Big Screen Classic is Dial M For Murder (35mm and presumably 2D), with Open Screen on Tuesday. "Prints of Darkness" shows are Rosemary's Baby in 35mm Tuesday and Devil's Advocate on 35mm Wednesday, and F.W. Murnau's Faust with a live score by the Invincible Czars on Thursday.
• Landmark Kendall Square looks to be open with five screens this week with Ben Affleck writing/directing/starring in kidnapping thriller Animals, which also features Kerry Washington, Gillian Anderson, and Steven Yeun, opening there day-and-date with its Netflix drop. Rep shows include Frankenstein for the Saturday Universal Monster Matinee, Blade for the Tuesday vampire Retro Replay, and Village of the Damned '95 for John Carpenter Wednesdays.

• South Asian films at Apple Fresh Pond (and elsewhere) feature Telugu-language action-comedy Comrade Kalyan (through Sunday); Kannada-language masala drama Premada Oorali (through Sunday); Nepali-language drama Pension Patta. A Telugu-language version of Hanuman Ansh play Fresh Pond and Causeway Street through Sunday, and the new Tamil-language Superstar Rajinikanth blockbuster, Jailer 2, opens at Fresh Pond, Boston Common on Wednesday. Telugu-language historic epic Ranabaali opens Thursday, with Vijay Deverakonda as the title character and Arnold Vosloo a cut above the average guy cast as the British villain. Hindi-language thriller Drishyam: The Conclusion continues at Fresh Pond and Boston Common.
  
  Two films from China open this week, albeit mostly at awkward times. Once Upon a Time in the Middle East plays at Causeway Street and South Bay, starring Shen Teng as a chef at a Chinese restaurant that becomes a refuge when an American-backed war breaks out; V is a mainland-produced Hong Kong crime story from the director of Animal World and Go Away Mr. Tumor!, opening at Boston Common and Causeway Street.
  
  Japanese exorcism thriller Never After Dark, which I quite liked at Fantasia this summer, opens at Boston Common.
  
  Vietnamese comedy Luck for Sale opens at South Bay.
• NAZA, a documentary exposé of Israeli atrocities in Gaza, opens The Seaport Alamo and West Newton. The Alamo also screens the 1987 Hellraiser on Friday, while The Texas Chain Saw Massacre plays Saturday & Monday. Mockumentary A Bloody Mess screens on Saturday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, with director Daniel Hayden and cast member Sydney O'Toole doing an in-person Q&A for the last show. Showgirls is the Carolco show on Sunday, there's both a preview of Sense & Sensibility with livestreamed Q&A, plus Ginger Snaps for Terror Tuesday, and what looks like the only local screening of biopic Tenzing (before it disappears into AppleTV) on Wednesday.
• The Brattle Theatre plays Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey in 35mm for the Friday film matinee before returning to the first half of the Independent Film Festival Boston Fall Focus Film Festival, which previews the upcoming months with Once Upon a Time in Harlem and The Only Living Pickpocket in New York (ain't it a bummer John Turturro and Tatiana Maslany probably aren't still in town?) on Friday; All of a Sudden, Look Back, Fatherland, and Club Kid on Saturday; Iron Boy, Minotaur, Rose, and Tender Loving Care on Sunday; and Wild Horse Nine on Tuesday.
  
  On Monday, they mark Indigenous Peoples' Day with Powwow People in the afternoon and Mārama at 9pm; in between is a crafting-friendly screening of Knives Out. On Wednesday, they begin the not-not-Halloween "Fablecore and More" series with The Adventures of Baron Munchausen on 35mm film, with I Saw the TV Glow playing late Thursday. Thursday also has a special screening of Albert Brooks's Real Life in association with local band Gollylagging and music blog Allston Pudding, which I'm sure makes some sort of sense if you know them.
• The Harvard Film Archive has three by João César Monteiro this weekend, with God's Wedding Friday, The Hips of J.W. on Saturday, and Recollections of the Yellow House Sunday afternoon. Saturday's Student Cinematheque show pairs Buster Keaton in Sherlock Jr. & "The Balloonatic" with live accompaniment by student Blake Hullinger.
• The Somerville Theatre presents the 1925 The Phantom of the Opera Saturday night with the New England Film Orchestra performing Carl Davis's score live. Sunday offers a double feature of The Love Witch on 35mm film and the delightful I Married a Witch before or after. Monday's F— the Nazis show is The Sound of Music on 35mm film, with The Princess Bride on 35mm film for Cult Classics Tuesday This week's 70mm presentation of The Odyssey is on Wednesday. Maybe it's the last, maybe not.
  
  The Capitol has the premiere of documentary Progress? on Friday night.
• The ICA has a special screening of on Friday, with director Louis Massiah on-hand for a post-screening talk.
• The Museum of Science has Pacific Rim on the Omnimax dome Friday & Saturday evening for Sci-Fi Supersized.
• The Regent Theatre has three films this week: The BoSox Club presents a screening of the terrific baseball movie Eephus on Saturday with members of the cast & crew, including Bill Lee, who will be signing autographs afterward Indie A Simple Machine screens on Sunday with filmmakerMark Alan Hoffman and star Richard Blackmon. Finally, documentary House of Hope screens on Wednesday.
• The Museum of Fine Arts has the James McNeill Whistler "Exhibition on Screen" Saturday afternoon.
• The Boston Asian American Film Festival kicks off Thursday night at the Coolidge with a sold-out show of Isle Child.
• Last weekend for the virtual leg of The Taiwan Film Festival of Boston (most easily accessed via the ticketing page).
• The Lexington Venue is open Friday to Monday and Thursday with American Doctor, Ha-Chan Shake Your Booty!, and Digger. Documentary Hanging By a Wire plays Thursday evening.
  
  The West Newton Cinema opens NAZA, The Social Reckoning and keeps Digger (Monday to Wednesday), The History of Concrete, The Incomer (Saturday to Wednesday), Primetime, and Coyote vs. Acme. Rock opera Tommy plays Saturday. Au Revoir Les Enfants plays Thursday afternoon; there's a "Producer's Circle" presentation of a still-untitled RV family documentary Thursday evening.
  
  The Embassy Cinema shows locally-produced comedy short "Frat Earthers" Saturday night.
  
  The Dedham Community Theatre plays 9 to 5, Digger, and The Incomer.
  
  All-Halloween all-the-time at Cinema Salem, with Hocus Pocus every day but Monday & Tuesday; Practical Magic 2 Friday to Sunday and Thursday; The Craft Friday to Sunday and Wednesday; John Carpenter's Halloween Friday/Sunday/Wednesday/Thursday. The Devil's Backbone is the Friday Night Light. Universal Monstersthis week are Dracula (Friday & Thursday), Frankenstein (Saturday), The Wolf Man (Sunday), and The Creature from the Black Lagoon (Friday & Thursday). Scream plays Saturday & Wednesday, and The Craft on Sunday. The Wednesday Classic is 1945's The Picture of Dorian Gray, and Weirdo Wednesday is probably spooky in some way too.
  
  Winter of the Crow, starring Leslie Manville as a professor who witnesses a student killed by secret police in 1981 Warsaw, opens at the Liberty Tree Mall in Danvers, as does Double Trouble, an action-comedy starring sisters Madeleine & Violet McGraw.

As I often do, I am mostly going to rely on the Fall Focus to sell out without me except for the stuff I think is less likely to get a regular theatrical release (mainly Iron Boy on Sunday) so I can cram V, Once Upon a Time in the Middle East, The Beast, Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother, and Tenzing. Updates on my Letterboxd page.

Next Week in Tickets: Films playing Boston 2 October 2026 - 8 October 2026

Happy birthday to me and a surprising number of folks in my extended family! What'd you get me, studios?

• Mainly, Digger, the new Alejandro G. Iñárritu film starring Tom Cruise as an oil billionaire whose operations have apparently caused and environmental disaster and brought the world to the brink of World War III. It kind of looks like a cautionary tale about trying to make Doctor Strangelove without Kubrick and Sellers, but we'll see. Playing at the Coolidge (VistaVision!), the Somerville, Fresh Pond, Jordan's Furniture (Imax Friday to Sunday), the Lexington Venue, West Newton, Dedham Community Theatre, Boston Common (including Imax Laser & Dolby Cinema), Causeway Street (including XL), Kendall Square, the Seaport, South bay (including Imax Xenon & Dolby Cinema), Assembly Row (Imax Laser & Dolby Cinema), and Arsenal Yards (including CWX).
  
  Also opening is Verity, Anne Hathaway's fifth movie of the year, this time starring her as a paralyzed writer who chooses Dakota Johnson's up-and-comer to ghost-write her final novel, although is she as powerless as she seems? The film also features Josh Hartnett as her husband, directed by Michael Showalter, who will always be The Baxter and the host of a NESN game show to me. It's at the Capitol, Fresh Pond, Boston Common (including Dolby Cinema & XL), Causeway Street (including XL), Kendall Square, the Seaport (including Dolby Atmos), South Bay (including Dolby Cinema), Assembly Row (including Dolby Cinema), Arsenal Yards (including CWX), and Chestnut Hill.
  
  The Influencer Project, which claims to be "from the creators of The Blair Witch Project" but basically has two of the filmmakers acting as producers, has an online personality being stalked in Copenhagen; it's at Fresh Pond and Boston Common. Another internet horror story, the messy but surprisingly watchable Appofeniacs, plays Boston Common. Meanwhile, in the Amazon (via Boston Common and South Bay), Beware Boiúna pits Logan Marshall-Green and Jessic Rothe against some sort of giant animal.
  
  Comedy The Incomer stars Domhnall Gleeson as a man sent to relocate two siblings from the Scottish island where they've been on their own since their parents died when they were children, playing Boston Common, West Newton, and Dedham Community Theatre. Rolling Loud: The Movie has Owen Wilson as a father who gives into his son's pleading to go to the titular hip-hop festival, gets separated, and has misadventures trying to reconnect; it opens at Boston Common.
  
  Love of Your Life, a romance directed by Rachel Morrison and starring Margaret Qualley, opens at Boston Common on Wednesday about a week and a half ahead of hitting Prime.
  
  Two or three major re-releases this week: The Nightmare Before Christmas shows in RealD 3D at Boston Common, Causeway Street, South Bay, and Assembly Row; Moonlight is at Boston Common and the Seaport; Donnie Darko plays Boston Common (presumably the original version as it's a "25th anniversary" release) Friday to Sunday. The Hispanic Heritage Month feature at Boston Common is Stand and Deliver. Hostel plays Boston Common and, Assembly Row Friday & Tuesday.
  
  Concert film Linkin Park: Unshatter has encore presentations at Boston Common and Kendall Square on Saturday; the restored Queen Budapest plays Boston Common (Imax Laser) and Kendall Square Wednesday; and Filipino concert SB19 Wakas at Simula: The Trilogy Concert Finale plays Boston Common Thursday. There's a mystery preview at Boston Common, Causeway Street, South Bay, Assembly Row, and Arsenal Yards Monday. Scottish comedy-drama The North has a preview at Boston Common (Dolby Cinema) on Monday; Other Mommy gets "fan event" screenings as part of its early start Thursday at Fresh Pond, Boston Common, Causeway Street, and Assembly Row.
• South Asian films at Apple Fresh Pond (and elsewhere) include Hindi-language thriller Drishyam: The Conclusion (a remake of a Malayalam film and also the sequel to a Hindi remake of the original), which also plays Boston Common; Malayalam-language comedy Don't Trouble the Trouble, where a kidnapper discovers the little girl he's taken has supernatural powers (plays in Telugu on Friday/Monday/Wednesday and in Telugu at South Bay); Tamil-language adventure Sigma; Tamil-language crime comedy Baththa with Vijay Sethupathi as a criminal trapped in an elementary school bathroom from Friday to Monday; and Tamil-language fantasy Yezhu Kadal Yezhu Malai ("Seven Seas Seven Hills") on Friday & Saturday.
  
  Indonesia horror-comedy Ghost in the Cell plays Boston Common all week and the Seaport Saturday, Sunday, and Wednesday.
  
  1993 anime Ninja Scroll plays subtitled Sunday/Monday/Wednesday at Boston Common, the Seaport (no show Monday), Assembly Row.
• The big deal at The Coolidge Corner Theatre is that they've once again pulled VistaVision projectors from a museum so that they can be one of five theaters in the world showing Digger in that format, so it's living on screen #1 for at least the first week.
  
  Midnight movies for October are all about horror in the suburbs, starting off with Bob Balaban's Parents on Friday and Joe Dante's The 'Burbs on Saturday, which also features documentary Rozz Williams: Romeo's Distress. There's a "Relaxed Screening" (lights up, sound down a bit, open captions) of Back to the Future Sunday morning, a "Stage & Screen" presentation of A Few Good Men on Monday, and "Prints of Darkness" shows of Heaven Can Wait (Tuesday), Jennifer's Body (Wednesday with Kay Lynch seminar), and Little Nicky (35mm Thursday in the later "Cult Classics" slot). Mystery Train plays in 35mm for Cinema Jukebox on Thursday with pre-show performance by Fortuna 500.
• Landmark Kendall Square seems to really be deep in renovation this week - I only count five of nine (soon to be eight) screens showing movies Friday to Sunday, nothing on Monday, and only special presentations Tuesday to Thursday. That includes the new rep series for October: Universal Monster Matinees every Saturday, starting with Dracula, Tuesday vampire Retro replays starting with The Lost Boys, and John Carpenter Wednesdays kicking off with Halloween. The Social Reckoning is listed for Thursday but no regular screenings after that yet.

• The Brattle Theatre has The Witches of Eastwick on 35mm for their Friday Film Matinee this weekend and keeps the early Halloween train rolling with the restored, uncut Japanese version of Masaki Kobayashi's Kwaidan from Friday to Monday, with the Vinegar Syndrome original Night of the Vamp-Friars on 35mm late Friday & Saturday.
  
  There's an RPM Festival presentation of the films of Marjorie Keller ("Intimate observer") on Sunday, and they pair with neighbor Lovestruck Books to host author Alice Hoffman for screenings of Practical Magic on Tuesday (though she'll be autographing copies of the sequel, and may only be present for the 6pm show, heading next door for the after-party rather than attending the 9pm). On Thursday, they partner with Independent Film Festival Boston to start the first leg of their annual Fall Focus with Possible Love, the new drama from Burning director Lee Chang-dong, which is headed to Netflix and may not hit theaters here because of how things are in flux at the Kendall.
• Speaking of Masaki Kobayashi, The Harvard Film Archive has his entire nearly-ten-hour The Human Condition Trilogy on new 35mm prints this weekend, with No Greater Love Friday evening, Road to Eternity Saturday afternoon, and A Soldier's Prayer Saturday evening (they will also screen two weeks later if you can't make both that and Kwaidan work this weekend). A couple more from the João César Monteiro series play after that, with Silvestre Sunday afternoon and The Last Dive Monday evening.
• The Somerville Theatre has coming of age comedy Edie Arnold Is a Loser on Sunday evening, with directors Megan Rico & Kade Atwood and star Adi Madden Cabrera on-hand for a Q&A afterward. Monday's F— the Nazis show is Dead Snow, with Freaks on 35mm film for Cult Classics Tuesday This week's 70mm presentation of The Odyssey is on Wednesday.
  
  The Capitol picks up Verity and Ha-Chan, Shake Your Booty!.
• The Seaport Alamo has Blue Velvet on Sunday, Casino Royale Monday & Tuesday, and Union County Tuesday & Wednesday, plus a free screening for Victory Club members of Addams Family Values on Tuesday (technically the second feature to a CBS sitcom preview).
• The Museum of Science has Jurassic Park on the Omnimax dome Friday & Saturday evening for Sci-Fi Supersized.
• The Regent Theatre has one more screening of the 2026 edition of the Manhattan Short Film Festival on Sunday.
• CineFest Latino 2025 continues this weekend with shorts at the Boston Public Library Friday afternoon, Freeing Juanita (Friday), Scarlet Girls (Saturday afternoon), Sana y Salva (Saturday afternoon), and spotlight film Runa Simi (Saturday evening) at ArtsEmerson's Paramount Theater; It's Still Night in Caracas (Friday) at the The Museum of Fine Arts; Libertad (Saturday) and Puerto Rican shorts (Sunday afternoon) at the Brattle; and closing night film La Bola Negra at the Coolidge Sunday.
• The virtual leg of The Taiwan Film Festival of Boston continues through 11 October (the website is a bit confusing; go to the ticketing page).
• The Lexington Venue has is open Friday to Sunday and Thursday with Primetime and Digger.
  
  The West Newton Cinema gets Digger, The History of Concrete, The Incomer, holding over Forgotten Island, Primetime ("Behind the Screen" show Tuesday), and Coyote vs. Acme,. Independent film Situations plays Friday, Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday. They're also the latest stop for local doc The Airwaves Belonged to the People: WBCN and the American Revolution on Friday, with filmmakers Bill Lichtenstein and Robert F. Sennott on hand. Bipolar syndrome documentary BrainStorm plays Wednesday with a post-screening panel with the filmmakers and experts, and Ty Burr's Film Club meets on Thursday for Bringing Up Baby.
  
  The Embassy Cinema has a few films over the next month, with cult documentary Winnebago Man playing Saturday & Sunday.
  
  The Dedham Community Theatre opens Digger and The Incomer.
  
  October means Halloween all the time at Cinema Salem, with Hocus Pocus and John Carpenter's Halloween every day but Monday & Tuesday, Practical Magic 2 Friday to Sunday and Thursday; The Craft Friday to Sunday and Wednesday; Scream Saturday/Sunday/Wednesday; and a bevy of Universal Monsters movies: The Wolf Man (Friday), Frankenstein (Friday & Sunday), The Creature from the Black Lagoon (Friday & Saturday), Bride of Frankenstein (Saturday & Sunday), The Invisible Man (Saturday & Sunday), Dracula (Saturday & Sunday). The Wednesday Classic joins in with the 1925 The Phantom of the Opera, and probably Weirdo Wednesday as well.
  
  Futuristic thriller April X opens at the Liberty Tree Mall in Danvers and has one random screening at Boston Common Tuesday afternoon. There is a sing-along version of Buddy opening at the Showcases in Woburn & Dedham plus the Liberty Tree Mall

Might go for a long night on Friday with Kwaidan and Night of the Vamp-Friars at the Brattle, but will hold off on seeing Digger in VistaVision until at least Monday, when the Green Line is running southwest of North Station (I idly wonder if the work would have been rescheduled if the Red Sox had hosted the Wild Card Series). Between/after,Verity a little catch-up, and maybe some horror or some of the wave of very specifically Scottish films coming out. Updates on my Letterboxd page.

Next Week in Tickets: Films playing Boston 25 September 2026 - 1 October 2026

It kind of feels like Fall Movie Season begins this weekend, with stuff that could possibly be awards contenders, if not certain ones.

• Primetime features Robert Pattinson as Chris Hansen, who hosted the "To Catch a Predator" segments on Primetime Live, which were a sensation but drew controversy for being lurid and self-aggrandizing. It's at the Coolidge, the Somerville, Fresh Pond, Lexington, West Newton, Boston Common, Causeway Street, Kendall Square, the Seaport (including Dolby Atmos), South Bay, Assembly Row, Arsenal Yards, and Chestnut Hill.
  
  Director David Ayer reunites with Brad Pitt in Heart of the Beast, playing a veteran with his retired army dog who crash-land deep in the Alaskan wilderness and must rely on each other to get out. It's at the Captiol, Fresh Pond, Boston Common (including Dolby Cinema), Causeway Street, Kendall Square, the Seaport, South Bay (including Dolby Cinema), Assembly Row (including Dolby Cinema), Arsenal Yards, and Chestnut Hill.
  
  Get ready for a lot of animated films with young women going through portals to strange lands this fall, starting with Forbidden Island from DreamWorks, which starts in 1990s Manila and sends two friends to a strange world where they gain strange powers but may forget themselves and their old lives if they don't return. It's at the Capitol, Fresh Pond, West Newton, Boston Common (including Dolby Cinema 2D & RealD 3D & Spanish), Causeway Street (including RealD 3D), the Seaport, South Bay (including Dolby Cinema 2D & RealD 3D), Assembly Row (including Dolby Cinema 2D & RealD 3D), Arsenal Yards (including CWX), and Chestnut Hill.
  
  Romantic comedy Charlie Harper features Nick Robinson (Charlie) & Emilia Jones (Harper) as a couple hitting the first bumps in their relationships; it plays Boston Common and the Seaport. The Stunt Driver stars Jay Baruchel in a true-life comedy about a daredevil looking jump a mile-wide river in a rocket-propelled car, opening at Boston Common. Also coming from the Great White North is You Had to Be There (subtitled "How the Toronto Godspell Ignited the Comedy Revolution, Spread Love & Overalls, and Created a Community That Changed the World (in a Canadian Kind of Way)"), a documentary on a 1972 stage production that set the stage for decades of Canadian comedy. It's at Boston Common, Lexington, and West Newton.
  
  Marvel re-releases Avengers Endgame in an "Encore" edition that includes a few minutes of new footage and presumably some sort of preview for Avengers: Doomsday, playing Fresh Pond, Jordan's Furniture (Imax Friday-Sunday), Boston Common (including Imax Laser 2D & Dolby Cinema 2D & XL 2D & RealD 3D), Causeway Street (including XL 2D & RealD 3D), the Seaport, South Bay (including Imax Xenon 2D & Dolby Cinema 2D & RealD 3D), Assembly Row (including Imax Xenon 2D & Dolby Cinema 2D & RealD 3D), Arsenal Yards (including CWX), and Chestnut Hill. The Hispanic Heritage Month feature at Boston Common this week is Spanglish.
  
  Documentary No Limbs: No Limits: The NickV Story plays Boston Common Saturday; concert film Linkin Park: Unshatter plays Boston Common and Kendall Square on Wednesday night. There are early-access screenings for Verity at Fresh Pond, Boston Common (Dolby Cinema), Causeway Street (XL), the Seaport ("Girls' Night Out"), South Bay (Dolby Cinema), Assembly Row (Dolby Cinema), and Chestnut Hill Wednesday.
• The Coolidge Corner Theatre has a couple other notable openings: The History of Concrete is a documentary from John Wilson, which apparently gets meta as he tries to pitch the doc as a Hallmark-style movie. It also opens at Boston Common and the Seaport.
  
  Also opening at the Coolidge is Ha-Chan, Shake Your Booty, with Rinko Kikuchi as a ballroom dancer making a comeback and perhaps finding romance with a new teacher. It also plays West Newton, Boston Common, and the Seaport.
  
  The Coolidge hosts a "Frizzi 2 Fulci" concert on Friday night, tying into their Midnight show of The Beyond on 35mm Friday; a new restoration of Cannibal Holocaust plays Saturday. "Welcome to the Art House" continues with Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall his Past Lives on Sunday afternoon and Nostalghia Wednesday evening. Sunday offers a screening of Monty Python and the Holy Grail to tie into the upcoming Spamalot run at the Wang. Another tie-in (perhaps) is Strictly Ballroom playing Monday night, with Tony Gannana doing a pre-show seminar. The Halloween "Prints of Darkness" series/class starts Tuesday, fittingly with 1922 silent Häxan. Thursday's Big Screen Classic is a 35mm print of Witness.
• Telugu-language historic action film The Paradise opened Wednesday and continues at Apple Fresh Pond, Boston Common, Causeway Street, and South Bay. Also opening at Fresh Pond are Meesaya Murukku 2, a Tamil-language film which picks up its chronicle of the career of Hiphop Tamizha Adhi; Tamil-language crime drama Dorothy, and Hindi-language fantasy-actioner The Vvan: Force of the Forest. Hanuman Ansh continues at Fresh Pond.
  
  The week's Ghibli Fest entry is Princess Mononoke, playing Boston Common and Assembly Row dubbed Saturday/Sunday/Wednesday and subtitled Monday/Tuesday; there's also a presentation of the stage version of Spirited Away at Boston Common on Thursday. Akira's big-screen re-release continues at the Coolidge.
  
  Korean alien-attack movie Hope continues at at Boston Common.
• The Brattle Theatre has two Chaplin shorts for their Friday Film Matinee - "A Dog's Life" & "Shoulder Amrs" - with pre-recorded soundtracks on their 35mm prints. After that, they have a selection of new restorations from the Il Cinema Ritrovato, with Charles Burnett's My Brother's Wedding (Friday/Saturday), Agens Varda's Vagabond (Friday), Kon Ichikawa's Ten Women in Black (Saturday), Tod Browning's Freaks (Saturday), Tsui Hark's The Blade (Saturday), Guy Maddin's Careful (Sunday/Tuesday), Luchino Visconti's Bellissima (Sunday), John Berry's He Ran All the Way (Sunday), Franco Rossi's Smog, an Elements of Cinema presentation of Mitchell Leisen's Midnight (Monday), F.W. Murnau's Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (Tuesday), Diva de Jean-Jacques Beineix (Wednesday), and Martin Scorsese's New York, New York (Thursday).
• The Harvard Film Archive has a couple more from the João César Monteiro series, with Recollections of the Yellow House on Friday and God's Comedy on Saturday. The Saturday Student Cinematheque is Federico Fellini's Amarcord on 35mm, and then they spend two days of "The Adventures of Lotte Reiniger", with Robert Humphreville accompanying The Adventures of Prince Achmed on Sunday afternoon and a selection of her short films on 16mm film Monday evening.
• The Somerville Theatre salutes Dolly Parton on Friday (9/25), with Nine to Five on 35mm for $9.25. Monday's F— the Nazis show is Casablanca on 35mm, with Pink Flamingos on film for Cult Classics Tuesday They've also got one more 70mm presentation of The Odyssey on Thursday.
  
  French comedy/drama The Marching Band continues at The Capitol. It's also the end of the month, so Monday should be the day for the monthly Disasterpiece Theatre tape-trading/trash-talk night.
• The Seaport Alamo has an AGFADrome mystery screening late Friday, and has Destroy All Monsters for the monthly TohoScope show Saturday & Sunday. NOFX: 40 Years of Fuckin' Up plays Saturday (with another show in a month). The Birdcage plays Monday, there's a special presentation of Deathgasm 2: Goremageddon on Tuesday, there's a Nacho Libre movie party on Wednesday, and Terminator 2: Judgement Day as part of the Carolco series on Thursday.
• Landmark Kendall Square has music doc Occupational Hazard: The First Coral Reefers Saturday afternoon. September's rep series finish with Mean Girls for "School Days" Tuesdays and The Stepford Wives for Wednesday's Nicole Kidman show.

• The Museum of Science has The Matrix on the Omnimax dome Friday & Saturday evening for Sci-Fi Supersized, and a free-with-RSVP screening of Vivo for Hispanic Heritage month on Saturday.
• RPM Festival has a show at CAMlab Harvard University featuring films and performances by Hampshire College Faculty & Alumni on Saturday.
• The Regent Theatre has screenings of the 2026 edition of the Manhattan Short Film Festival on Sunday & Thursday.
• CineFest Latino 2025 opens Wednesday at the Coolidge with American Pachuco: The Legend of Luis Valdez with director David Alvarado on hand for a Q&A, moving over to ArtsEmerson's Paramount Theater for Theydream with director William Caballero there on Thursday.
• The Museum of Fine Arts has an "Exhibition on Screen" presentation on Thursday devoted to James McNeill Whistler.
• The Taiwan Film Festival of Boston has completed its in-person portion but the virtual festival will run through 11 October (the website is a bit confusing; go to the ticketing page).
• The Lexington Venue has is open Friday to Sunday and Tuesday & Wednesday with Primetime and You Had to Be There (no show Tuesday). Palestine '36 also plays Wednesday.
  
  The West Newton Cinema gets Forgotten Island, Ha-Chan, Shake Your Booty, Primetime, and You Had to Be There, and keeps Filipiñana, Coyote vs. Acme, and Tony. They show 1924 Baby Peggy feature Captain January with live accompaniment by Leslie & Barbara McMichael on Friday, a "Musical Matinee" of High Society on Saturday, documentary featurette The Boston Bulldogs (with panel discussion) on Sunday, and Situations with director Greg Vrotsos present for a Q&A on Thursday.
  
  The Dedham Community Theatre holds over Bad Apples and The Weight.
  
  Cinema Salem is going with Salem witches this Halloween season with Hocus Pocus and Practical Magic 2 taking up most of the screen times Friday to Monday. Friday's Night Light show is Chow Yun-fat in John Woo's The Killer, there's a sold out Rocky Horror Picture Show with Teseracte Players on Saturday (Full Body Cast at Boston Common). 2001: A Space Odyssey is the Wednesday Classics, with Weirdo Wednesday next door.
  
  The Showcase in Dedham opens Hello Beautiful, a drama starring Tricia Helfer as a woman dealing with a breast cancer diagnosis.

The storm is making the weekend crazy, as I had tickets for the Sunday Red Sox game that got moved up to Friday, so I'm no longer worried about Destroy All Monsters bumping into it and, as a bonus, maybe the new time for the Friday game will make it possible to get to the AGFADrome show (no tickets sold one day out!). Also got tickets for Deathgasm 2, which makes for a pretty full week already before even looking at new releases. Also probably hitting two at the Brattle Saturday, excited in part because I wind up staring at a poster for The Blade half the times I use the men's room there. Updates on my Letterboxd page.

Next Week in Tickets: Films playing Boston 18 September 2026 - 24 September 2026

Another week with more movies!

• The big opening is a reboot of Resident Evil from Barbarian & Weapons director Zach Creggar, apparently hewing closer to the games that the Milla Jovovich series did. It's at Fresh Pond, Jordan's Furniture (Imax Friday-Sunday), Boston Common (including Imax Laser & Dolby Cinema & Spanish subtitles), Causeway Street (including XL), Kendall Square, the Seaport, South Bay (including Imax Xenon & Dolby Cinema), Assembly Row (including Imax Laser & Dolby Cinema), Arsenal Yards, and Chestnut Hill.
  
  GKids continues to corner the market on animation with Shaun the Sheep: The Beast of Mossy Bottom, the latest mostly-pantomime stop motion film from Aardman which has Shaun doing some mad science to save the pumpkin patch and things going awry. It opens at the Capitol, the Coolidge, Fresh Pond, the Lexington Venue, West Newton, Boston Common, Causeway Street, and Chestnut Hill. Another kid-friendly film, Tiny Fugitives, opens at Boston Common, with Johnny Knoxville as a camp counselor trying to evict pre-teens trying to stay there after it closes for the season.
  
  The Weight is a depression-era western starring Ethan Hawke as a prisoner recruited to snuggle gold out of a mine by Russell Crowe's warden. It's at the Somerville, the Coolidge, West Newton, the Lexington Venue, Dedham Community Theatre, Boston Common, Causeway Street, the Seaport, and South Bay.
  
  Dark comedy The Musical stars Will Brill as a high-school music teacher who decides to make the annual musical an act of revenge against his ex-girlfriend's new lover; it plays Boston Common. Mena Massoud (who has had an odd career since the live-action Aladdin) plays the title character in Daniel and the Fiery Furnace, which adapts the story of Daniel and the exile to Babylon from the Torah. It also opens at Boston Common.
  
  The Transformers: The Movie gets a 40th Anniversary re-release at Boston Common and Causeway Street. Warner continues to try to make "Batman Day" happen with special comics and first the Tim Burton film playing the Somerville (70mm), Boston Common, South Bay, and Assembly Row Friday & Saturday, while The Lego Batman Movie plays in 3D at Boston Common, South Bay, and Assembly Row Saturday & Sunday; Mask of the Phantasm plays Boston Common and South Bay Saturday. Hispanic History Month screenings begin at Boston Common with Dora and the Lost City of Gold playing afternoons.
  
  There's an early access show of Forgotten Island at Boston Common, South Bay, Assembly Row, and Chestnut Hill Sunday afternoon, and mystery previews (PG, so maybe also that) at Boston Common, Causeway Street, South Bay, and Assembly Row Monday. Documentary Heaven in Stone and Glass plays Boston Common, South Bay, and Assembly Row Sunday and Wednesday. Kpop concert film NCT 127 5th Tour "Neo City: Seoul - The Redline" plays Assembly Row Sunday; rock doc Pulp: What Do You Do For an Encore? plays Kendall Square and the Seaport on Thursday.
• A couple movies with previews at The Coolidge Corner Theatre open for their regular runs: Union Country features Will Poulter and Noah Centineo as brothers going through rehab in a part of Ohio hit hard by the opioid epidemic. The screening of documentary American Doctor on Friday with filmmaker Poh Si Teng doing a Q&A is sold out, but the film about three doctors from different backgrounds volunteering in Gaza will be playing (mostly) on screen #3 all week.
  
  The Coolidge also picks up Boorman and the Devil, which played BUFF and looks back on John Boorman's time directing The Exorcist II.
  
  The midnight basics hit Rocky Horror with Teseracte and some of Full Body Cast for a sold-out show Friday, who also do their regular gig at Boston Common Saturday, while The Room plays with Greg Sestero on hand on Saturday. Cinema Masala returns Saturday afternoon with Shah Rukh Khan and Kajol in Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge, and there's also a presentation of CatVideoFest 2026 on Sunday. "Welcome to the Art House" continues with Amores Perros with a seminar by Dr. Bruno Guaraná Sunday afternoon and Down By Law on 35mm Thursday. East of Eden is the Big Screen Classic on 35mm Monday, while Romy and Michelle's High School Reunion plays for Science on Screen Wednesday. There's also a "Rewind!" screening of A Goofy Movie on Thursday.
• Landmark Kendall Square opens If I Go Will They Miss Me, which looks at Watts through the imaginative eyes of a 12-year-old boy (it also plays Boston Common). They also have School of Rock for "School Days" Tuesdays and Miss Congeniality for the Wednesday Sandra Bullock spotlight.

• Plenty of South Asian cinema at Apple Fresh Pond this week: Hindi thriller Daayra (also at Boston Common), Hindi action-comedy Vibe (through Sunday), Nepali romantic drama Behulii, Malayalam-language thriller It's a Medical Miracle, and Malayalam-language crime dama Pradhama Dhrishtya Kuttakkar. Telugu-language historic action film The Paradise opens at Boston Common, Causeway Street, South Bay (at least) on Wednesday. Hanuman Ansh continues at Fresh Pond, Boston Common, and Causeway Street.
  
  I'm not sure how big a hit Take Off was when it played China back in January, but this story of a rural inventor trying to perfect a personal jetpack is opening on one of the larger screens at Boston Common (including XL). Dear You continues at Boston Common and Causeway Street.
  
  The original animated adaptation of Ghost in the Shell has an anniversary release at Boston Common (and plays the Seaport subtitled Friday & Monday and dubbed Saturday); Akira's big-screen re-release continues at the Coolidge. There's a Crunchyroll Anime Sneak Peak night at Boston Common, the Seaport, Assembly Row on Monday.
  
  Korean alien-attack movie Hope continues at at Fresh Pond, Boston Common, Causeway Street, Kendall Square, the Seaport, South Bay, and Assembly Row.
• The Brattle Theatre has their first Friday Film Matinee in a few weeks, with a 35mm print of The Goonies playing at 3:30pm. They also host the FIRE Freedom of Speech Film Festival, playing Lenny on Friday, All the President's Men and Spotlight on Saturday, and The Librarians on Sunday. All are separate admission and feature post-film discussion.
  
  That overlaps with a tribute to the recently-departed Sam Neill, with Sleeping Dogs Friday, Jurassic Park on 35mm Saturday & Sunday, Possession Saturday & Thursday, The Hunt for the Wilderpeople on Sunday, and a 35mm double feature of In the Mouth of Madness & Event Horizon on Wednesday.
• The Harvard Film Archive begins a Sophia Coppola retrospective (she's due to visit in late October with tickets to her presentation of Marie Antoinette being snapped up quickly) with 35mm prints of The Virgin Suicides and The Bling Ring on Friday night. The Student Cinematheque series returns Saturday after noon with Cabaret on 35mm film, and Graham Greene screenings return with The Third Man and George Cukor's adaptation of Travels with My Aunt later Saturdayevening. The weekend concludes with two more from the João César Monteiro series, with Snow White on Sunday and Hovering Over the Water on Monday.
• French comedy/drama The Marching Band, in which a world-famous composer learns his long-lost brother is a working-class guy who plays trombone in a local marching band, opens at The Capitol. They also have a free (with RSVP) screening of CODA on Wednesday in addition to the regular open-captioned features, and screen documentary The Dads, followed by a group of local PFLAG members discussing their own experiences raising trans and nonbinary kids.
  
  The Somerville Theatre participates in Batman day with a 70mm print of Burton's film Friday to Sunday, also welcoming Jeff Rapsis to accompany a 35mm print of Harold Lloyd in For Heaven's Sake for the comedy's 100th anniversary. They bring back "Fuck the Nazis" with Raiders of the Lost Ark on 35mm Monday, show Monty Python and the Holy Grail on film for the Tuesday Cult Classic, and have a 70mm screening of The Odyssey on Wednesday.
• The Seaport Alamo plays indie oddity Chronovisor on Friday, Saturday, Tuesday, and Wednesday; it's an armchair mystery where an academic tries to track down a mysterious device that can allegedly take pictures through time. The week's Carolco presentation is Basic Instinct (Saturday), while the Twilight screenings reach New Moon on Saturday/Sunday (fan screening)/Tuesday/Wednesday. They also screen the original Korean My Sassy Girl on Sunday, the Wachowskis' Speed Racer on Monday, miss Batman day by screening it Wednesday with a Spy Kids movie party down the hall, and Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai plays Thursday.
• The Taiwan Film Festival of Boston spends the weekend at The Museum of Fine Arts with Deep Quiet Room (sold out) on Friday, a 40th anniversary screening of Hou Hsia-hsien's Dust in the Wind on Saturday, and Lucky Lu (with short "Falcon Eyes") on Sunday, before closing the in-person segment out at the Brattle Theatre on Monday with a free screening of the New Taipei City Documentary award series and Marching Boys with the filmmakers on hand for a Q&A. There will be three weeks of virtual screenings on Giloo afterward (not a bad deal for $3 and lots of free passes given away with surveys at in-person shows).
• The Museum of Science has Interstellar on the Omnimax dome Friday & Saturday evening for Sci-Fi Supersized. There's a free-with-RSVP screening of Vivo for Hispanic Heritage month on the 26th.
• The Boston Film Festival runs this weekend with Unleashed Spirits: The Rise of the Hollywood Vampires at the Wang Center on Friday and various shows at the Boston Public LIbrary, Massachusetts College of Arts and Design, and ArtsEmerson's Paramount Theater, notably including Beneath the Blue Suburban Skies, with writer/director/costar Edward Burns in person; that's marked as a US Premiere and it may actually be the case, despite playing TIFF in 2019 and Burns seeming to be a filmmaker with a small but loyal audience. It wraps up in Rockport on Monday before going virtual on Tuesday.
• The Regent Theatre has their first screening of the 2026 edition of the Manhattan Short Film Festival on Thursday.
• Joe's Free Films (and the Coolidge website) show free outdoor screenings of Toy Story at CambridgeSide on Friday, Superman '25 at the Cambridge Urban Park Roof Garden on Saturday, The Proposal at TimeOut Market on Monday, a double feature of The Straight Story & Wings of Desire at Mount Auburn Cemetery on Tuesday & Wednesday (via the Coolidge), and The Incredibles at Hood Park in Charlestown on Thursday.
• The Lexington Venue has Coyote vs. Acme (Friday & Ssaturday), Shaun the Sheep (Friday to Sunday), and The Weight (Friday to Thursday). They also have a James Whistler "Exhibition on Screen" on Saturday morning, documentaries The Last Picture Shows and Unbroken: The Untold Story of Shen Yun Saturday afternoon; Who Moves America with post-film Q&A Monday; Bernstein's Wall, Late Fame, and Cold War in Philly on Wednesday, and Does Sound Heal on Thursday.
  
  The West Newton Cinema picks up Filipiñana after its Brattle run, Shaun the Sheep, The Weight, and continues Practical Magic 2, Coyote vs. Acme, and Tony. There's a Behind the Screen presentation of documentary Baby Doe with director Jessica Earnshaw there for a post-film discussion on Wednesday, plus local favorite Rebel with a Clause on Thursday.
  
  The Dedham Community Theatre appears to be the only place in the Boston area opening Saoirse Ronan comedy Bad Apples (in which she plays a primary school teacher whose results improve immensely when she accidentally injures a troublemaking student and locks him in her basement) as well as picking up The Weight.
  
  Cinema Salem remains more-or-less all-in on Practical Magic 2 and Coyote vs Acme (no show Saturday) Friday to Monday, though there's also a "Something Wicked" Cabaret show based on Hocus Pocus Friday to Sunday, a Spooky Picture Show/Rewind Market presentation of Night of the Creeps Saturday, a Murder She Wrote anniversary Whodunit Watch Party on Sunday, and The Graduate for Wendesday Classics (plus Weirdo Wednesday). Salem CritterFest has on-demand presenations through Sunday.
  
  Sunny Dancer, with Bella Ramsey as a 17-year-old with leukemia whose parents send her to "chemo camp", plays the Liberty Tree Mall in Danvers, as does Without Blood, a wartime drama directed by Angelina Jolie starring Salma Hayek and Demian Bichir.

Really busy weekend when you add in What the Fluff? and the Boston Pizza festival, but I'm going to try to fit Chronovisor, 70mm Batman, For Heaven's Sake, and The Weight in as well as the Taiwan Film Festival finale, although that makes going against Raiders and Speed Racer is really frustrating! There's also some Sam Neill flicks I'd like to pick up if I can fit them in. Updates on my Letterboxd page.