Next Week in Tickets: Films playing Boston 4 July 2025 - 10 July 2024

Huh, maybe I should have done a 5-day week last time, because this weekend is pretty quiet aside from Wednesday's openings.

• The Coolidge Corner Theatre and Boston Common open IFFBoston closing night film Sorry, Baby, with writer/director/star Eva Victor playing an instructor at a small liberal arts school still reeling from something that happened when she was a grad student.
  
  The Coolidge also opens a special 25 Anniversary Edition of Wong Kar-Wai's In the Mood for Love which reintegrates some footage he cut before its original release.
  
  No midnight show on Friday night, but Green Room plays Saturday. Monday's Queer Cinema presentation is a 35mm print of All About My Mother; Tuesday's Kaidan Kimodameshi show is Kuroneko, also on 35mm film; Wednesday's Big Screen Classic is the original Sabina on 35mm; and Thursday's is Francis Ford Coppola's 2005 "Complete Novel" cut of The Outsiders.
• Chinese thriller Malice, starring Zhang Xiaofei (recently seen in Yolo and Last Suspect) as a reporter investigating two people who fell to their deaths.
  
  Apple Fresh Pond opens Hindi-language romantic anthology Metro… In Dino; Telugu-language action film Thammudu; and Tamil-language 3BHK, about a family looking to buy a home in the city Hindi-language sports movie Sitaare Zameen Par continues at Fresh Pond.
• Jurassic World Rebirth opened Wednesday, and continues at the Capitol, Fresh Pond, West Newton, CinemaSalem, Boston Common (including Dolby Cinema & RealD 3D & Spanish subtitles), Causeway Street (including RealD 3D), Kendall Square, the Seaport (including Dolby Atmos), South Bay (including Dolby Cinema & RealD 3D), Assembly Row (including Dolby Cinema & RealD 3D), Arsenal Yards (including CWX), and Chestnut Hill.
  
  40 Acres opened at Boston Common on Wednesday.
  
  Kids matinees include The Goonies at Kendall Square Saturday/Sunday/Wednesday; Kung Fu Panda 4 at Fresh Pond Monday/Tuesday/Wednesday and Arsenal Yards on Tuesday, and Despicable Me 4 at South Bay Monday/Wednesday.
  
  41st Anniversary shows of This Is Spinal Tap play Boston Common, Arsenal Yards Saturday/Sunday/Monday. There are secret previews at Boston Common, Causeway Street, Kendall Square, the Seaport, South Bay, Assembly Row on Monday (possibly that sequel!). Less secret is Superman playing Tuesday at Boston Common (Imax Laser), South Bay (Imax Xenon), Assembly Row (Imax Laser), plus "Opening Night Fan Events" on Thursday at Boston Common (Imax Laser), South Bay (Imax Xenon), Assembly Row (Imax Laser)
• The Brattle Theatre continues their "Spawn of Jaws: Blockbusters & Wannabe Blockbusters" series withRaiders of the Lost Ark on 35mm Friday & Saturday, Close Encounters Friday, Dune '84 on 35mm Friday & Tuesday, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade on 35mm film Saturday (double feature with Raiders), E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial on 35mm Saturday & Sunday, Poltergeist on 35mm Saturday & Sunday, Conan the Barbarian and a 35mm print of Action Jackson Sunday, The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across The 8th Dimension on Monday & Thursday, Big Trouble in Little China on Monday, Beverly Hills Cop on 35mm & Flash Gordon on Tuesday, Batman on 35mm & Howard The Duck on Wednesday, and then wrapping things up with their annual 35mm Trailer Treats show and Streets of Fire on 35mm Thursday.
• The Somerville Theatre has a midnight special of Cats on Saturday. They begin their "Great Remakes" series on Monday, with a double feature of 1951's The Thing from Another World & 1982's The Thing, the latter on 35mm. They screen indie Stealing Pulp Fiction on Tuesday, a Summer Camp show of Ash Wednesday on Wednesday, and the new 4K restoration of Shall We Dance? on Thursday.
  
  The Capitol Theatre the "Peninsula Dreams Film Festival" on Saturday afternoon, and then a "Blame Canada! USO Show" presentation of South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut in the evening, with a pop-up arcade and musical performances before and after the show.
• The Harvard Film Archive gets a bit of a late start on their summer deep dive, "Floating Clouds: The Cinema of Naruse Mikio". The film that gives the series its title plays Saturday evening and Sunday afternoon, with Sudden Raid Saturday night, Yearning Sunday evening, and Sound of the Mountain Monday evening. All film this weekend - and I believe for the entire series - are on 35mm film.
• The Seaport Alamohas Attack the Block on Monday, and Hot Spring Shark Attack on Wednesday
• Landmark Kendall Square is doing comedy classics in July, kicking off the weekly series with National Lampoon's Animal House on Tuesday.
• The Regent Theatre has documentary Why Are You You? on Wednesday, which shares an abbreviation with subjects the Young Religious Unitarian Universalists (by design, I imagine).
• Outdoor screenings listed at Joe's Free Films include Finding Nemo at the TimeOut Market on Monday, Inside Out 2 at Hoyt Field in Cambridge on Wednesday, and Paddington at Assembly Row & The Wild Robot at Somerville's Lincoln Park on Thursday.
• The Museum of Science returns "Superhero Dogs" to its Imax shorts rotation, and tickets are on sale for Superman when it opens in a couple of weeks.
• The Lexington Venue is open all week but Monday with F1, plus free matinees of Stars and Stripes Forever on Saturday and Yankee Doodle Dandy on Sunday.
  
  The West Newton Cinema continues F1, Jurassic World Rebirth, Elio, How to Train Your Dragon, Materialists, The Phoenician Scheme, and The Life of Chuck. Thursday's Ty Burr Film Club show is The Night of the Hunter.
  
  Cinema Salem has 28 Years Later, Jurassic World Rebirth, F1, and M3GAN 2.0 through Monday. Wednesday has the 1937 A Star Is Born, with the mystery Weirdo Wednesday show down the hall.
  
  If you can make it out to the Dedham Community Theatre, they are showing French film Mr. Blake at Your Service, starring John Malkovich as a widower who takes a job as a butler to Fanny Ardant, with Émilie Dequenne also in the cast.

I figure the long weekend will let me get an early start for bladder-busters F1 and Jurassic Park 7 around Malice and 40 Acres, hopefully catching up with Elio in 3D, 28 Years Later and Materialists before Hot Spring Shark Attack and the Trailer Treats - Fantasia is less than two weeks away so there's a wall there!