Next Week in Tickets: Films playing Boston 11 July 2025 - 17 July 2024

We are in the "one or two movies grabbing every screen" portion of the year.

• This week, that's the latest take on Superman, written and directed by James Gunn with David Coreswet at Clark Kent, Rachel Brosnahan as Lois Lane, and Nicholas Hoult as Lex Luthor. Not sure what the story is, but it's the first time Warner has launched Superman movies with a larger DC Universe in place. It's at the Somerville, the Capitol, Fresh Pond (including 3D), The Museum of Science (Omnimax Fridays & Saturdays), West Newton, Jordan's Furniture (Imax), CinemaSalem, Boston Common (including Imax Laser 2D/3D & Dolby Cinema & RealD 3D & Spanish subtitles), Causeway Street (including RealD 3D), Kendall Square, the Seaport (including Dolby Atmos), South Bay (including Imax Xenon 2D/3D & Dolby Digital & RealD 3D), Assembly Row (including Imax Laser 2D/3D & Dolby Cinema & RealD 3D), Arsenal Yards (including CWX), and Chestnut Hill.
  
  Also opening is Abraham's Boys, which is subtitled "A Dracula Story", featuring Titus Welliver as Van Helsing, who apparently moved to America with his sons after defeating Dracula, although maybe he's not totally defeated. It's at Boston Common and South Bay.
  
  Kids matinees include Pokemon: Detective Pikachu at Kendall Square Saturday/Sunday/Wednesday; The Wild Robot at Fresh Pond Monday/Tuesday/Wednesday, and Kung Fu Panda 4 at South Bay Monday/Wednesday.
  
  This Is Spinal Tap is held over at Boston Common Friday to Sunday. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest has 50th Anniversary shows at Boston Common Sunday & Wednesday.
• Landmark Kendall Square opens Sovereign, featuring Nick Offerman and Jacob Tremblay as father-and-son believers in sovereign citizenship who will eventually cross paths with Dennis Quaid's police chief.
  
  Tuesday's comedy classic is The Jerk.
• Apple Fresh Pond opens Hindi-language gangster film Maalik, starring Rajkummar Rao; Aankhon Ki Gustaakhiyan, a Hindi-language romance about a visually-impaired couple; and Tamil-language drama Oho Enthan Baby. Hindi-language romantic anthology Metro… In Dino continues at Fresh Pond, where Bangladeshi action movie Taandob plays Saturday afternoon.
  
  Anime Jujutsu Kaisen: Hidden Inventory/Premature Death - The Movie plays Wednesday & Thursday at Boston Common, Causeway Street, the Seaport.
  
  Chinese thriller Malice continues at Causeway Street.
• The Brattle Theatre has an encore of Streets of Fire on 35mm for the Friday Film Matinee. After that, they have a run of Familiar Touch, with Kathleen Chalfant as a woman whose mind is breaking down on the other side of 80. Co-star H. Jon Benjamin will be on hand for a Q&A Friday. It also plays Saturday & Sunday, plus matinees Monday & Thursday. They also have late shows of Christiane F. in a new restoration Friday to Monday.
  
  In rep, Ari Aster programs a number of westerns - The Wild Bunch Saturday afternoon, Unforgiven Sunday afternoon on 35mm film, and No Country for Old Men Wednesday afternoon - ahead of an IFFBoston preview of his new film Eddington on Wednesday. There's also a "Pics and Crafts" show of Marie Antoinette on 35mm film Monday, and the start of their Robert Altman series on Tuesday with M*A*S*H & Brewster McCloud (the latter on 35mm).
• The Coolidge Corner Theatre rearranges showtimes, but mostly keeps the same movies. Midnights this weekend are Kill Bill, with Volume 1 on Friday and Volume 2 on Saturday, both on 35mm film. They also have documentary Sabbath Queen, which follows performance artist Amichai Lau-Lavie over 21 years before he returns to the thousand-year family business of being a rabbi, on Sunday afternoon, with director Sandi Dubowski on hand for Q&A.
  
  They also have The People's Joker on Monday evening, kabuki-derived horror movie Demon Pond on Tuesday, Dog Day Afternoon for Wednesday's Big Screen Classic, a 35mm Cinema Jukebox show of Saturday Night Fever on Thursday, and a cult classic show of Romy and Michelle's High School Reunion later Thursday night.
  
  (They're also the venue for Boston Jewish Film's Summer Cinematheque screening of Marathon Mom on Thursday, with tickets available on BJF's website.)
• The Harvard Film Archive has more 35mm Mikio Naruse: Untamed (Friday evening/Sunday afternoon), A Wife's Heart (Friday night), and Sudden Rain (Sunday evening). They also welcome Yugoslav auteur Karpo Godina for bahrudin "Bato" Čengić's Life of a Shock Force Worker (with Godina's "Sunday Picnic") Saturday evening, a program of experimental shorts Saturday night, and episodes 1 to 3 of Frame for a Few Poses on Monday evening.
• The Museum of Fine Arts screens La Chimera on Friday evening, with a panel of the museum's experts on hand for a conversation afterward.
• WBUR's CitySpace has a "Set in Boston" screening of The Bostonians on Friday night, with Sean Burns & Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Megan Marshall discussing it afterward.
• The Somerville Theatre has a 35mm double feature of Die Hard & Working Girl on Saturday evening (apparently it's a Bob's Burgers thing), with a midnight screening of Hundreds of Beavers later that night. Independent film Sunlight plays Sunday and Tuesday evening. Monday's Great Remakes double feature are the '58 and '86 versions of The Fly (the latter on 35mm film). Wednesday's Summer Camp show is What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? on 35mm, and Thursday features music documentary Harley Flanagan: Wired for Chaos.
  
  The Capitol Theatre has a 4th Wall show with Digital Awareness providing visuals for A Monolithic Dome, War Machine, and Astral Bitch on Saturday.
• The Seaport Alamo has an "Agfadrome" screening of 1977 South Korean folk horror film Io Island on Wednesday.
• The Regent Theatre has two movies on Sunday evening, with actress Taylor Treadwell there for meet & greet before American Warrior in the afternoon and documentary Goddess of Slide: The Forgotten Story of Ellen McIlwaine with director Alfonso Maiorana there for a Q&A in the evening. On Wednesday, they team with The Book Rack with The Princess Bride, with a post-film discussion about the adaptation.
• There's a pretty full slate of outdoor screenings listed at Joe's Free Films: Moana at the Charles River Esplanade on Friday, Miss Congeniality at the Prudential Center on Saturday, 5 on Wednesday (Moana 2 at Boston Harbor Shipyard, Despicable Me 4 at Timothy J. Toomey Jr. Park in Cambridge, Moana at Castle Island and Point Break on 35mm at the Rose Kennedy Greenway via the Coolidge), and Flubber at Urban Park Roof Garden in Cambridge & The Outsiders at Somerville's Lincoln Park on Thursday.
• The Lexington Venue is open all week but Monday with Familiar Touch, Friendship, and Hot Milk.
  
  The West Newton Cinema opens Superman and Bad Shabbos, continuing Jurassic World Rebirth, Elio, Materialists, The Phoenician Scheme, and The Life of Chuck.
  
  Cinema Salem has 28 Years Later, Jurassic World Rebirth, and Superman through Monday. The original The Toxic Avenger is Friday's Night Light show, with podcast The Spooky Picture Show hosting a 40th anniversary screening of Day of the Dead on Saturday, plus a Wednesday Classics show of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?.
  
  If you can make it out to the Liberty Tree Mall in Danvers, they've got a four-walled booking of influencers-getting-picked-off horror movie Skillhouse. The Dedham Community Theatre holds overFrench film Mr. Blake at Your Service.

Already have a ticket for Superman in Imax 3D on Saturday, a family gathering on Sunday, and then I leave for Montreal for the Fantasia International Film Festival on Monday. Can I fit Materialists and maybe a 3D Elio or even Sovereign in around that? Maybe, maybe not.