Big movie news: The MBTA is running service an hour later - and for free on weekends during September - so there are more options for seeing stuff that starts late!
- Big release this week is The Conjuring: Last Rites, which could be the finale of this series that treats a married pair of real-world "exorcists" like the real thing! Or not! It's at Fresh Pond, Jordan's Furniture (Imax), CinemaSalem, Boston Common (including Imax Laser & Dolby Cinema & Spanish subs), Causeway Street, Kendall Square, 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.
Also opening is The Threesome, in which a three-way hookup becomes truly ill-conceived as both women wind up pregnant. It's at Boston Common, Causeway Street, South Bay, and Assembly Row.
After opening at the Coolidge, the Kendall, and Boston Common last week, Splitsville expands to the Somerville, Causeway Street, the Seaport, South Bay, and Assembly Row.
The Broadway performance of Hamilton that went to Disney+ back when theaters were closed in 2020 gets a wide release, playing at West Newton, Boston Common, Causeway Street, Kendall Square, the Seaport, South Bay, Assembly Row, Arsenal Yards, and Chestnut Hill.
Light of the World, an animated film about the life of Jesus (didn't we just have on of these?) told from the perspective of the apostle John, opens at Fresh Pond and Boston Common.
The Breakfast Club has 40th anniversary shows at the Seaport Saturday & Monday and at Boston Common and South Bay on Sunday & Wednesday. There are Wednesday Early Access Screenings for Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale at Boston Common (Dolby Cinema), South Bay (Dolby Cinema), Assembly Row (Dolby Cinema), Arsenal Yards (CWX), and Spinal Tap II: The End Continues in Imax at Jordan's, Boston Common, South Bay, Assembly Row (probably the only Imax shows as Demon Slayer takes most screens Friday.
- Twinless opens at The Coolidge Corner Theatre; with writer/director James Sweeney co-starring as one of two folks who meet at a support group for people who have lost a twin. It also plays Kendall Square, the Lexington Venue, West Newton, Boston Common, and the Seaport.
The last few screenings of Jaws, through Sunday, play on 35mm film at the Cooldige. The midnight series at the Coolidge for September is the first batch of restorations of the long-unavailable outside-Asia Golden Princess library, starting with A Better Tomorrow on Friday and City on Fire on Saturday, with Hundreds of Beavers also playing late Saturday. The 2025 CatVideoFest plays Sunday afternoon; Monday night offers a Panorama screening of Your Fat Friend; Tuesday has a special screening of Lesbian Space Princess; Wednesday has a "Page to Screen" show of the Cocteau Beauty of the Beast with Nicholas Elliott, who has translated a book about the film, on-hand; and Thursday has both a Rewind! Show of Clueless and an early show of The Baltimorons wite writer/producer/star Michael Strassner on-hand.
- Love, Brooklyn, a romance involving two connected couples in the titular borough, opens at Landmark Kendall Square and Boston Common.
The Retro Replay series at Kendall Square for September is anniversary screenings, starting with Airplane! on Tuesday.
- The Somerville Theatre opens animated coming-of-age comedy Boys Go to Jupiter for a limited run Friday to Sunday. It gives way to rep shows during the week, with V for Vendetta on 35mm film Monday, and documentary featurette "Holding Up the Sky", with director Bob Nesson on hand to discuss his film about about two men who met in prison after killing their abusers as teenagers, on Wednesday. There's also a secret 35mm members' screening on Thursday.
The Capitol Theatre opens A Little Prayer, with David Strathairn as a man who discovers his son is having an affair and finds himself mostly worried about how it will affect his daughter-in-law. They also begin a series of screenings celebrating their 100th anniversary, with a restored The Gold Rush playing Saturday night. Finally, there's a "Gothic Cabaret" with Velvet Dirtmunchers and Charming Disaster on Thursday.
- New South Asian movies at Apple Fresh Pond include Hindi-language historical drama The Bengal Files, Hindi-language thriller Baaghi 4 (also at Boston Common), Tamil-language thriller Madharasi, Telugu-language crime flick Ghaati, and Telugu-language romance Little Hearts (through Sunday). Held over are Malayalam-language action-fantasy Lokah Chapter 1: Chandra and Hindi-language romance Param Sundari.
Animated Chinese adventure The Legend of Hei 2 opens at Boston Common, Causeway Street (the original is, thankfully, easily streamable). Chinese holdovers are Jackie Chan in The Shadow's Edge at Boston Common and Dead to Rights at Causeway Street.
Vietnamese drama Leaving Mom (Mang Me Di Bo) continues at South Bay.
Upcoming anime blockbuster Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle has a "Crunchroll Subscriber Early Access Screening" at Boston Common (Dolby Cinema), Assembly Row (Dolby Cinema) on Tuesday.
- The Seaport Alamo opens Preparation for the Next Life, a romantic drama about an Uyghur refugee and an American soldier who meet in New York, playing all week.
In rep, they continue Nightmare on Elm Street screenings with #2 (Freddy's Revenge) Friday and #3 (Dream Warriors) Saturday, and Harry Potter movies with #5 (Half-Blood Prince) on Saturday/Sunday. There are member previews of Twinless on Tuesday and Preparation for the Next Life on Wednesday. There's one last show of Jaws on Sunday, and a movie party for the original This Is Spinal Tap on Tuesday.
- The Brattle Theatre has the Quay Brothers' first feature in 20 years, Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass, a surreal combination of live action and stop-motion with a man seeking his father in a strange asylum - in since it's not long for a feature, they're also showing the Quays' 1986 short "Street of Crocodiles" with it! Friday through Sunday, it splits the screen with a restoration of Leos Carax's The Lovers on the Bridge.
On Tuesday, they have a new restoration of Tsui Hark's screwball comedy Shanghai Blues. Wednesday and Thursday feature two episodes Twin Peaks: The Return each, while Thursday offers a 35mm matinee of The Palm Beach Story and an evening show of The Darjeeling LImited.
- The Harvard Film Archive mostly spends the weekend with Hong Sang-soo: On the Occasion of Remembering the Turning Gate (35mm Friday evening), In Another Country (35mm Friday night), Hahaha (35mm Sunday afternoon), Hill of Freedom (Sunday evening), and A Traveler's Needs (Monday evening). The free series of Steve McQueen's Small Axe films with Lover's Rock and Red, White and Blue on Saturday.
- The rerelease of Jaws is held over for straggling shows at various places, most notably The Museum of Science and
The New England Aquarium, who both have them on their Imax screens Friday & Saturday evenings.
- Movies at MIT has Conclave Friday & Saturday; open to the public but give them a heads-up if you're not part of the MIT community.
- Joe's Free Films has the sing-along version of Wicked outside at Boston Landing on Saturday evening.
- The Embassy in Waltham doesn't seem to be a regular going concern these days, but they've got a listing for indie Everyone Asked About You on Wednesday.
- The Lexington Venue is open all week but with Eden, My Mother's Wedding, and Jaws. They have another screening of Georgia O'Keeffe: The Brightness of Light on Saturday with art historian Nancy Scott, and also screen The Last Class Saturday, Sunday, and Thursday.
The West Newton Cinema opens Twinless and Hamilton, holding over Shari & Lamb Chop, Caught Stealing, Honey Don't!, Highest 2 Lowest, and Rebel with a Clause. There's a "Behind the Screen" presentation and discussion of Caught By the Tides on Sunday afternoon and a Ty Burr's Movie Club screening of Michael Clayton on Thursday.
Cinema Salem has Weapons, Jaws, The Roses, and The Conjuring: Last Rites through Monday. Stalag 17 is the Wednesday Classic with Weirdo Wednesdays down the hall, and Creepshow plays Thursday.
Indie comedy Griffin in Summer joins drama A Little Prayer at the Dedham Community Theatre, with writer/direector Nicholas Colia on hand Sunday evening. The Liberty Tree Mall in Davers is playing Pools, which sounds like a modern distaff riff on The Swimmer, and Everything to Me, aka The Book of Jobs, about a girl growing up in Silicon Valley and idolizing Steve Jobs.
New Quay Brothers!
Splitsville &
The Threesome look like fun! Three restored Hong Kong movies I can get to and maybe even make it home afterwards!
Boys Go to Jupiter looks neat! There's an actual reason to take the airport bus to the Alamo! It is a fun weekend even if you've never seen a
Conjuring movie and grow more actively hostile to them the more you learn!
