Next Week in Tickets: Films playing Boston 23 May 2025 - 29 May 2024

You know, for a film that's opening in as many theaters as it is tonight, I don't think I've seen a single preview for Lilo & Stitch at the movies. Tons of posters & standees, and bits with Stitch swallowing his cell phone at AMC, but not one actual trailer. Caveats: Festivals have eaten two weeks in the past couple months, and covid another, so the last kids' movie I saw in theaters was The Day the Earth Blew Up, but I watch a lot of mainstream movies; I feel like I would have seen *one* preview by now.

• That Lilo & Stitch remake plays at The Capitol Theatre, Fresh Pond, the Embassy, the Lexington Venue, West Newton, CinemaSalem, Boston Common (including Dolby Cinema & RealD 3D & Spanish dubbed/subtitled shows & Korean subtitles), Causeway Street (including RealD 3D), the Kendall, the Seaport (including Dolby Atmos & Kid-Friendly), South Bay (including Dolby Cinema & RealD 3D), Assembly Row (Dolby Cinema & RealD 3D), Arsenal Row (including CWX), and Chestnut Hill.
  
  Also opening wide is the potential conclusion of Tom Cruise's nearly 30-year run as Ethan Hunt in Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning, picking up from where Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One left off a couple years ago, fighting an AI "entity" aimed at world destruction. It's at the Capitol, Fresh Pond, the Lexington VenueJordan's Furniture (Imax), West Newton, Boston Common (including Imax Laser & Dolby Cinema & Spanish subtitles), Causeway Street, the Kendall, the Seaport (including Dolby Atmos), South Bay (including Imax Xenon & Dolby Cinema), Assembly Row (including Imax Laser & Dolby Cinema), Arsenal Yards (including CWX), and Chestnut Hill.
  
  Neal McDonough stars in The Last Rodeo as a retired rider entering one last rodeo to benefit his grandson. It's at Fresh Pond, Boston Common, Causeway Street, and South Bay.
  
  Friendship expands, adding the Somerville, West Newton, Causeway Street, the Seaport, South Bay, and Assembly Row to the Coolidge, Boston Common, and Kendall Square.
• Jane Austen Wrecked My Life (Jane Austen a gâché ma vie) opens at The Coolidge Corner Theatre, West Newton, Kendall Square, Boston Common, and the Seaport. It's a French romantic comedy about a Shakespeare & Co. clerk who winds up in a love triangle at the Jane Austen Writer's Residency.
  
  The Tangerine Dream midnights at the Coolidge are Thief on Friday and The Keepon 35mm film on Friday (hopefully with my favorite pre-screening story). On Sunday, they have a Ghost in the Shell double feature with Mamoru Oshii's original followed by his sequel Innocence afterward; it's the first of three Ani-Mania shows, with Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion on Tuesday and Inu-Oh on Wednesday. Monday's Big Screen Classic is the original The Heartbreak Kid; Thursday offers both a special screening of Henry Johnson with star Evan Jonigkeit doing a remote introduction and a cult classic show of Wet Hot American Summer on 35mm later in the evening.
• There are four new South Asian movies at Apple Fresh Pond: Hindi romantic comedy Bhool Chuk Maaf, Hindi horror-comedy Kapkapiii, Malayalam-language action flick Narivetta, and Tamil-language actioner Ace.
  
  J-pop Concert film Ado Special Live "Shinzou" plays Boston Common Wednesday.
  
  Haitian thriller July 7: Who Killed the President of Haiti? and Vietnamese film The Ancestral Home continue at South Bay.
• The Somerville Theatre opens Friendship on Friday and plays the new 4K restoration of Ran on Saturday, Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday (except Wednesday). They also continue F— the Nazis with The Sound of Music in 35mm on Sunday, The Great Escape in 4K on Sunday, and a 35mm print of The Mortal Storm on Wednesday.
  
  The Capitol Theatre appears to be skipping their monthly Disasterpiece Theater show because of the holiday, with the next on 30 June.
• The New England Aquarium adds "Shark Kingdom" to their Imax rotation starting on Saturday.
• The Brattle Theatre has Reunion Week, including Jaws on 35mm Friday to Sunday rather than the usual 4th of July shows. There's also Nine Queens on 35mm for the Friday Film Matinee, Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom (Friday), American Psycho (Saturday), Cooley High (Saturday), Bring It On (Saturday), Sunset Boulevard (35mm Sunday), Born Yesterday (Sunday), O Brother, Where Art Thou? (35mm Sunday), Gun Crazy & Winchester '73 (Monday with the latter on 35mm), Almost Famous & Tommy (Monday), Erin Brockovich (35mm Tuesday for Elements of Cinema), Orpheus (35mm Wednesday), Black Moon (35mm Wednesday), The Gleaners and I (Thursday), and Grey Gardens (Thursday).
• The Museum of Fine Arts continues the annual Festival of FIlms From Japan with Between the White Key and the Black Key n Friday, Cottontail on Saturday, Shadow of Fire on Sunday, and Look Back.on Sunday.
• The Seaport Alamo has a Family Party show of Lilo & Stitch on Saturday, Jaws on Monday & Tuesday (including a Movie Party show on Monday), a "Terminating Mystery Movie" on Wednesday, and a preview of The Phoenician Scheme with livestreamed Q&A on Thursday.
• Landmark Kendall Square has Julie & Julia for its Tuesday Meryl Streep movie.
• The Museum of Science is preselling tickets to the The Glassworker on Saturday the 31st of May and A Million Miles Away on the 7th of June with José M. Hernández, whose life inspired the story, on hand..
• The Embassy has Lilo & Stitch and Hurry Up Tomorrow through Sunday. The original Godzilla is the free community movie on Monday (and possibly Sunday, from the website).
• The Lexington Venue is open all week with Lilo & Stitch and Mission: Impossible.
  
  The West Newton Cinema turns a lot of screens over, opening Lilo & Stitch, Mission: Impossible, Friendship, and Jane Austen Wrecked My Life, holding over We Were Dangerous, The Penguin Lessons, and Secret Mall Apartment.
  
  Cinema Salem has Lilo & Stitch, Thunderbolts*, Sinners, and Final Destination Bloodlines through Monday. Friday's Night Light show is Female Trouble, there's a Girlies with Anniversaries encore of Clueless on Saturday afternoon, Rocky Horror with Teseracte Players that night (with Full Body at Boston Common apparently taking the week off), "Craft Night" with The Craft on Wednesday, when they also have Singin' in the Rain for the Classic and the Regular Weirdo Wednesday show.

I'll probably do Mission: Impossible, Jaws Ran, The Great Escape, and The Mortal Storm, maybe catch Sinners in 70mm