Next Week in Tickets: Films playing Boston 7 November 2025 - 13 November 2024

Looks like Fall movie season is really starting in earnest this week!

• The big release is Predator: Badlands, Dan Trachtenberg's third Predator flick over the past four years and the seventh overall (not counting the crossovers), but each is a pretty fresh start. This one is from the point of view of a young Predator, with Elle Fanning as an android it recovers. It's at the Capitol, Fresh Pond, Jordan's Furniture (Imax 2D), CinemaSalem, Boston Common (including Imax Laser 2D & Dolby Cinema 2D & RealD 3D & XL 2D/3D), Causeway Street (including RealD 3D), Kendall Square, the Seaport, South Bay (including Imax Xenon 2D & Dolby Cinema 2D & RealD 3D), Assembly Row (including Imax Laser 2D/3D & Dolby Cinema 2D & RealD 3D), Arsenal Yards (including CWX), and Chestnut Hill.
  
  Also opening is Christy, which features Sydney Sweeney as a boxer who finds that success in the ring does not mean she's not vulnerable to an abusive husband outside it. It's at Fresh Pond, Boston Common, Causeway Street, the Seaport, South Bay, and Assembly Row.
  
  Nuremberg opens at the Coolidge, the Capitol, Fresh Pond, the Lexington Venue, West Newton, CinemaSalem, Boston Common, Kendall Square, the Seaport, and Assembly Row; it stars Russell Crowe as Herman Göring, Michael Shannon as the head prosecutor, and Rami Malek as the army psychiatrist trying to figure out what Göring is thinking.
  
  Also opening is Die My Love, with Jennifer Lawrence and Robert Pattinson joining director Lynne Ramsay as a writer slowly losing her mind and the husband trying to keep things on an even keel. It's at the Coolidge, Boston Common, Causeway Street, Kendall Square, the Seaport, South Bay, and Assembly Row.
  
  There's also Sarah's Oil, with Zachary Levi helping the kid who has inherited a potentially rich field from folks who would exploit her because she's a young Black girl who is convinced she hears the voice of God. It's at Boston Common, Causeway Street, South Bay, and Assembly Row.
  
  Another Sundance '24 selection, I Wish You All the Best, arrives at Boston Common; it follows a non-binary teenager thrown out of their house after coming out to their parents and starting a new life in a new school after moving in with their sister. Also opening at Boston Common is Sanky Panky 4: De Safari, the latest in a series of Dominican comedies with its characters heading to the jungle this time around.
  
  Chicken Run plays 25th anniversary shows Sunday/Wednesday at Boston Common, South Bay, Assembly Row, Arsenal Yards (Wednesday only); the Rocky IV director's cut plays Boston Common Sunday. There are secret previews at Boston Common, Causeway Street, Kendall Square, the Seaport, Assembly Row on Monday; non-mystery previews of Muzzle: City of Wolves at Boston Common, Causeway Street, South Bay, Assembly Row Tuesday. Musical features include Mary J. Blige: For My Fans at Boston Common, South Bay Saturday; J-Hope Tour: Hope on the Stage at Kendall Square, the Seaport, and Assembly Row Wednesday. The early shows for Keeper on Thursday at Boston Common include an Osgood Perkins triple feature that also includes Longlegs & The Monkey.
• This week's Netflix movie opening at Landmark Kendall Square (and West Newton) is Train Dreams, starring Joel Edgerton as a Pacific Northwest orphan working to expand the railroads in the early 20th Century in what looks to be a striking film from the trailers.
  
  Tuesday's John Hughes film at Kendall Square is Weird Science.
• South Asian films opening at Apple Fresh Pond this week include Hindi-language courtroom drama Haq, Telugu-language college drama The Girlfriend (also at Causeway Street), Telugu-language fantasy-horror Jatadhara, Telugu-language comedy The Great Pre-Wedding Show (through Monday), and Nepali-language drama Jaari 2: Song of Chyabrung (through Sunday).
  
  There's also a week-long celebration of Shah Rukh Khan's 60th birthday with 9pm shows of Devdas (Friday), Main Hoon Na (Saturday), Om Shanti Om (Sunday), Chennai Express (Monday), Dil Se.. (Tuesday), Kabhi Haan Kabhi Naa (Wednesday), and Jawan (Thursday). Ram Gopal Varma's 1989 Telugu-language thriller Shiva plays Tuesday to Thursday. Baahubali: The Epic continues at Boston Common.
  
  Anime VIRGIN PUNK: Clockwork Girl plays Boston Common Tuesday (subbed) and Thursday (dubbed); the showtime says 94 minutes but IMDB says 35, so there's either a lot of behind-the-scenes footage or a co-feature. The newly-restored Mamoru Oshii feature Angel's Egg has an early-access preview Wednesday at Boston Common (Dolby Cinema). Chainsaw Man - The Movie: Reze Arc continues at Fresh Pond, Boston Common, Causeway Street (including RealD 3D), South Bay, and Assembly Row (Dolby Cinema 2D & RealD 3D), in both subtitled and dubbed shows across most formats/locations. Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle, continues at Boston Common and South Bay.
• The Brattle Theatre has the first of their two Noirvember programs - Film Noir in the 1950s - with The Asphalt Jungle & Sunset Boulevard on Friday (the latter also has a Saturday matinee), Pickup on South Street Sunday/Monday, a 35mm double feature of Cry Danger & The Prowler Sunday, Clash by Night & Pushover on 35mm Tuesday, and The Night of the Hunter on Wednesday.
  
  There's also an RPM Fest show on Sunday, "Gunvor Nelson: Call & Response: Echo" with panel discussion afterward (Ms. Nelson passed earlier this year), a Crafting show of When Harry Met Sally on Monday, and an advance screening of Peter Hujar's Day with filmmaker Ira Sachs on hand.
• The Seaport Alamo shows Knives Out Friday & Sunday in advance of the new Benoit Blanc. They also have Don't Look Now Friday & Saturday, The Descent Friday & Tuesday, Desperately Seeking Susan Saturday, To LIve and Die in L.A. Saturday, and an early access show of Sentimental Value on Wednesday.
• The Capitol Theatre has Capitol 100 screenings of The Sting on Friday, Saturday Night Fever on Saturday (obviously), The Muppet Movie Sunday afternoon, and Network on Thursday.
  
  The Somerville Theatre continues moving their 35mm print of Bugonia upstairs and downstairs depending on special programming. The big one there is Saturday's Godzillathon, which runs 2pm to 2am and includes the original, the new release of Shin Godzilla, and four from in between. They have a "Silents Please" show with Jeff Rapsis accompanying The Big Parade on Sunday (sort of an Armistice Day tradition), documentary Running Home with subject Michael Wardian and director Brian Truglio on hand for a Q&A on Monday, Raging Bull on Tuesday and The King of Comedy on Wednesday to tie in with Robbie Robertson's posthuman autobiography (Porter Square books will have a table in the lobby), and Radu Jade's metafictional take on Dracula on Thursday (apparently a one-off rather than a first night for the 2025 film).
• The Coolidge Corner Theatre appears to be finished with its 35mm print of Bugonia, but Frankenstein is still playing on 35mm in screen 1 (though maybe not lugging the print upstairs to screen 2). Midnights this month feature M. Night Shamalayan, starting with The Sixth Sense on Friday and a 35mm print of The Happening on Saturday.
  
  There's Cinema Masala seminar on Saturday morning, and then a screening of Amar Akbar Anthony on Sunday afternoon. Monday's Big Screen Classic is a restoration of The Grapes of Wrath and Thursday's is You've Got Mail (with seminar led by UMass Boston's Sarah Keller). Tuesday's Noirvember show is Sudden Fear with post-film discussion. There's also an Open Screen night on Tuesday and Dead Poets Society on Wednesday, the first show of a month-long tribute to Ethan Hawke around his receiving the 2025 Coolidge Award,
• Boston Turkish Festival's Documentary/Shorts Competition moves to Goethe-Institut Boston this weekend, with programs Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.
• Wicked Queer presents Major! at ArtsEmerson's Paramount Center
Friday night; it's a documentary about Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, one of the black trans women who were at the center of the Stonewall Riot (and who recently passed away).
• The Harvard Film Archive starts a new program, "Columbia 101: The Rarities", celebrating some of the less-known entries in the venerable studio's canon, mostly on 35mm film. This week's selections are Let Us Live (Friday evening), Washington Merry-Go-Round (later Friday night), Address Unknown (Saturday evening), The Brave Bulls (DCP later Saturday night), and a double feature of Under Age & Girls Under 21 Sunday night. Saturday afternoon's student-programmed double feature is Miracle in Milan & Killer of Sheep (free with Harvard ID); there's also a rescheduled presentation of Hong Sang-soo's The Day a Pig Fell into the Well on 35mm film Sunday afternoon, a presentation of Jordan Belson's (mostly) 16mm films led by Raymond Foye on Monday, and a free presentation of films from the current Film Study Center fellow on Thursday evening.
• The Boston Jewish Film Festival continues at the Brattle (Saturday), The Museum of Fine Arts (Sunday), West Newton (Monday/Tuesday), Orchard Cove in Canton(Monday), Arts at the Armory in Somerville (Tuesday), the Coolidge (Wednesday/Thursday). Of special note (to me) is The Stamp Thief at the MFA Sunday morning; I contributed to the Kickstarter and am eager to see the result.
• The Irish Film Festival has a screening of Colin Farrell-narrated documentary From That Small Island - The Story of the Irish at the Capitol this Saturday, with a post-film discussion panel; free tickets available at their site.
• The Taiwan Film Festival of Boston has a special screening of A Chip Odyssey, a feature-length documentary on the birth and growth of Taiwan's semiconductor industry, on Tuesday night. Director Hsiao Chu-Chen and producers Ben Chen & Ben Tsiang will talk afterward.
• The Mid-Week Musical Movie at The Regent Theatre this Wednesday is Finding Lucinda, which follows musician Avery "ISMAY" Hellman as she digs into the history of Lucinda Williams in the places that molded her. Hellman and others will be present with live music and discussion.
• Movies at MIT has Didi in 26-100 on Friday & Saturday; remember to give them a head's up if you're not part of the MIT community.
• The Lexington Venue is open all week but monday with Nuremberg, Blue Moon (no shows Tuesday/Thursday), and Springsteen (no show Tuesday). There's a free screening of documentary A Sunday in Hell, which is about a bicycle race rather than war, on Sunday morning, and four free Veterans' Day screenings on Tuesday - Mister Roberts, Destination Gobi, Stalag 17, and Sahara.
  
  The West Newton Cinema opens Train Dreams, It Was Just an Accident and Nuremberg, keeping Bugonia, Nouvelle Vague (with a "Behind the Screen" show Sunday), Blue Moon, Frankenstein, and Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere. There's a "Director's Spotlight" show of There Was, There Was Not on Friday (although travel-related trouble means filmmaker Emily Mkrtichian will be joining by Zoom rather than in person), plus a second screening on Sunday. There are also matinees of Charlotte's Web and The LEGO Movie: The Second Part on Tuesday and a "Ty Burr's Movie Club" show of Children of Men on Thursday.
  
  Cinema Salem comes back from their post-Halloween nap with Predator: Badlands, Nuremberg, One Battle After Another, and Bugonia Friday to Monday. It being Salem, there's still spooky stuff - the Happenstance Horror Fest has morning and afternoon blocks on Saturday - and they also begin a run of Noirvember Wednesday classics with Angel Face (free Weirdo Wednesday down the hall). On Thursday, they do a big Whodunnit Watch Party with Clue, followed by a quick walking tour and after party.
  
  There's also a whole ton of movies that couldn't find a home in Boston/Cambridge/Somerville but can maybe be reached via buses: British cartoon Grand Prix of Europe at Showcase Woburn, Dedham, Patriot Hingham, the Liberty Tree Mall in Danvers; Chinese animated hit Nobody in Danvers; Franco-Japanese animation Little Amélie or the Character of Rain in Danvers; ensemble comedy Lost & Found in Cleveland in Woburn, Danvers; Unexpected Christmas in Danvers; Karen Kingsbury's The Christmas Ring in Danvers; and Argentine drama Belén in Danvers.

Geez, that's a busy week - even after sleeping fast post-Godzillathon, I think I'd normally try to see what I could do with the T to see some of the animated things in Danvers, but Sunday's probably busy with The Stamp Thief and the Brattle's noir, which conflicts with Om Shanti Om (the SRK film I'd most like to catch)! It's a pretty stacked group of new releases, noir, and anime as well. (Follow my my Letterboxd page for what I do get to)