Next Week in Tickets: Films playing Boston 2 May 2025 - 8 May 2024

Here's hoping what I missed during the festival didn't get wiped out by the big Marvel movie!

• The big Marvel movie for the start of summer is Thunderbolts*, and I'm just going to assume the asterisk is to warn us that this isn't The Masters of Evil pretending to be a new superhero team while the Avengers have disappeared, but various characters from Black Widow, Falcon and the Winter Soldier, and Ant-Man 2 thrown into the middle of a clash between two ultra-powerful supers. It's at least got Florence Pugh as White Widow at the center, though! It plays The Capitol Theatre, Fresh Pond (including 3D), The Embassy, Jordan's Furniture (Imax 2D), West Newton, CinemaSalem, Boston Common (including Imax Laser 2D/3D & RealD 3D & Dolby Cinema & Spanish Subtitles), Causeway Street (including RealD 3D), Kendall Square, the Seaport (including Dolby Atmos), South Bay (including Imax 2D/3D & RealD 3D & Dolby Digital), Assembly Row (including Imax Laser 2D/3D & RealD 3D & Dolby Cinema), Arsenal Yards (including CWX), and Chestnut Hill.
  
  Horror movie Rosario features Emeraude Toubia as a woman whose grandmother has just died and who will have to face supernatural entities before the ambulance arrives during a snowstorm; David Dastmalchian is in there somewhere, which is a good omen. It's at Boston Common, Causeway Street, and South Bay.
  
  Bonjour Tritesse is not a French movie, but an American indie set in the south of France with Lily McInerny, Claes Bang, and Chloe Sevigny that just looks like the sort of thing Ozon would have cast Ludivine Sagnier in back in the day. It's at Boston Common. Also at Boston Common, and also featuring Chloe Sevigny, is Magic Farm, from La Planeta filmmaker Amalia Ulman, about a film crew that winds up in the wrong place and decides to work with what they've got.
  
  Boston Common and Chestnut Hill will have "Block Party" shows of A Minecraft Movie all week, presumably so kids can scream and cheer without old folks complaining, while the Seaport Alamo has it for Saturday & Sunday matinees. There are 25th Anniversary screenings of Dogma at Boston Common on Saturday, but they're already listed as sold out. 50th Anniversary presentations of Monty Python and the Holy Grail at Boston Common and Arsenal Yards on Sunday and Wednesday. The week's Wednesday "Halfway to Halloween" show at Boston Common is Annabelle. Looking forward rather than back, an R-rated mystery preview plays at Boston Common, Causeway Street, South Bay, and Assembly Row on Monday. There are non-mystery early access screenings of Clown in a Cornfield at Boston Common, the Seaport, and Assembly Row on Wednesday, plus Watch the Skies (aka UFO Sweden), also at Boston Common on Wednesday.
• BUFF opening night film The Surfer opens at Landmark Kendall Square, Boston Common, and the Lexington Venue, with Nicolas Cage playing a divorcé attempting to buy the house on the Australian coast where he grew up, clashing with Julian McMahon as the ringleader of a bunch of locals who chase off any non-residents trying to surf their beach.
  
  Kendall Square also has an R-rated secret movie on Monday and starts Meryl Streep May with a screening of Out of Africa on Tuesday. Björk concert film Cornucopia plays Wednesday (also at Boston Common, the Seaport), and Tall Tales, a "collaborative album and visual experience" from producer Mark Pritchard, musician Tomm York, and director Jonathan Zawada, plays Thursday.
• Apple Fresh Pond opened Telugu-langage action flick HIT: The 3rd Case (also at Causeway Street) and Tamil actioner Retro (also at Boston Common) earlier in the week, and adds Hindi-language actioner Raid 2 (also at Boston Common) with Ajay Devgn returning as a tax agent hunting down a new white-collar criminal, and Tamil-language Tourist Family, about a clan of Sri Lankan immigrants new to India.
  
  The Dumpling Queen, a biopic of with Ma Li as Wanchai Ferry founder Zang Jianhe, opens at Boston Common; it's a Hong Kong story with a mainland star but HK supporting cast and director Andrew Lau Keung-Lau (not to be confused with Andy), playing in Mandarin.
  
  Korean thriller Yadang: The Snitch opens at Causeway Street.
• The Brattle Theatre probably just kept the DCP of IFFBoston selection An Unfinished Film on their servers after showing it as part of IFFBoston, right? The latest from Lou Ye, it's a story about filmmakers who reunited to finish a film abandoned during production just as the Covid pandemic reared its head. It plays Friday to Monday. Donnie Darko plays later on Friday to Sunday, in its original theatrical release version, on 35mm film. There's also a "Resistance of Vision Festival" shorts program with a post-film panel on Saturday afternoon, and the latest Grrl Haus Cinema program, "Experimental Echoes", on Thursday.
  
  They also have Top Secret! for their Friday Film Matinee, as well as an encore on 4K DCP Tuesday evening. There is also a special encore of last week's sold-out Chungking Express "pineapple expiration date" screening, and Real Genius on 35mm film Tuesday & Wednesday.
• The Coolidge Corner Theatre mostly keeps going with what they've been doing, although they reset the rep calendars. Midnights in May will be featuring soundtracks by Tangerine Dream, with Sorcerer on Friday and Kamikaze 89 on Saturday. They've got their third 35mm Lord of the Rings marathon in as many months on Sunday. Monday's Big Screen Classic is Czech New Wave classic Daisies, with a seminar from Alex Kittle beforehand; Tuesday's "Stage & Screen" show is Katharine Hepburn in David Lean's Summertime; Wednesday begins "Ani-Mania!" (I'd've gone with "Ani-May!", myself) with Satoshi Kon's Millennium Actress; and Thursday has a Cinema Jukebox show of Buena Vista Social Club on 35mm film.
• The Seaport Alamo has French lesbian pop musical Queens of Drama on Friday, Sunday, and Tuesday. Barry Lyndon plays Saturday & Sunday; Nashville plays Sunday; there's a Hunger Games: Catching Fire movie party on Monday; an R-rated mystery movie preview Monday (think they're all the same movie?); and J-Horror flick Noroi: The Curse on Tuesday.
• The Harvard Film Archive is dark for most of the weekend, but has a second screening of Wang Bing's Youth (Spring) (the part of the trilogy that didn't play last weekend) on Monday.
• The Somerville Theatre opens Sinners, now that Ani DiFranco and IFFBoston have moved on. They continue Frederick Wiseman showings with Boxing Gym on Tuesday and start this year's F— The Nazis series with a 35mm print of Raiders of the Lost Ark on Wednesday.
• The Museum of Science has upcoming Omni screenings of Everything Everywhere All at Once on Saturday the 17th and The Glassworker on the 31st of May.
• Movies at MIT has Yi Yi on Friday and Saturday evenings. As always, if you're not part of the MIT community, they'd appreciate an email at lsc-guest (at) MIT dot edu ahead of time.
• Belmont World Film plays Sima's Song, a film about the friendship between two very different women in 1970s Afghanistan, at the West Newton Theatre on Monday, with Berklee history professor and author James Bradford on hand to introduce it.
• The Regent Theatre presents a selection of the "Wild & Scenic Film Festival" on Thursday.
• The Embassy has Thunderbolts* and The Legend of Ochi through Sunday. Do the Right Things plays for Monday's free community matinees; they've also announced a "Movie Makers" camp for the summer.
• The Lexington Venue is open Friday/Saturday/Sunday/Wednesday/Thursday, opening The Surfer, and keeping The Ballad Of Wallis Island.
  
  The West Newton Cinema opens Thunderbolts* and keeps The Legend of Ochi, Cheech & Chong's Last Movie, Conclave, The Penguin Lessons, Sinners, Secret Mall Apartment, and A Minecraft Movie.
  
  Cinema Salem has Thunderbolts*, The Accountant 2, Sinners, and A Minecraft Movie through Monday. Friday's Night LIght show is zombie biker movie Psychomania, and the Wednesday Classic is Suspicion, with a Weirdo Wednesday show on the other screen.

When does Stubs A-List go from 3 to 4 movies a week? Not until the 23rd for me, apparently, so I'll use it for Thunderbolts*, Yadang, and The Dumpling Queen, and maybe catch up on what I missed elsewhere (around a Red Sox game).