Next Week in Tickets: Films playing Boston 2 January 2026 - 8 January 2025

For as frequently as studios have seemed like they weren't providing options enough for those of use with theater memberships during the past few months, it's a pretty active New Year's weekend, considering how often theaters are just holding over the Christmas movies.

• Some of that is expansions of stuff with awards buzz, such as No Other Choice, the new film from Park Chan-wook, based on a novel by Donald E. Westlake and starring Lee Byun-hun as a white collar worker struggling to find a new job and resorting to eliminating the competition. It plays on 35mm film The Coolidge Corner Theatre (at least for the showings on screen #2, as Marty Supreme in 70mm has screen #1), and digitally at Boston Common. It expands to Assembly Row next week.
  
  That's the same situation as Resurrection, the new film from Chinese auteur Bi Gan featuring Jackson Yee as a dreamer in a future when such things are outlawed, whose various incarnations track the history of movies. Shu Qi co-stars, though she mainly appears in the first and last segments (which are also some of the more jaw-dropping. It's at the Coolidge, Boston Common, and The Somerville Theatre (starting Tuesday, after the Slutcracker folks have cleared out).
  
  The Coolidge's January midnight shows are a mix of true crime (In Cold Blood on Friday) and giallo (the new restoration of The House with Laughing Windows on Saturday). The Coolidge also has Saturday & Sunday morning kids' shows of Happy Feet (co-directed by George Miller!); The Cook, the thief, His Wife & Her Lover as Big Screen Classic on Monday; Idiocracy as part of their January "Projections" sci-fi series on Tuesday (there is an accompanying "Dystopia Now?" class over the month's five Tuesdays); Terminator 2 and The Voice of Hind Rajab on Wednesday, the latter featuring a Q&A with actor Saja Kilani; and V for Vendetta as the Projections Cult Classic on Thursday.
• There's also more conventional screen-fillers: We Bury the Dead, a zombie movie movie starring Daisy Ridley that's been kicking around festivals for a year, opens at Boston Common, Causeway Street, the Seaport, South Bay, and Assembly Row. The Dutchman, with André Holland as a successful man pulled into a web by seductress Kate Mara, has also been on the circuit since SXSW and opens at Boston Common. The Plague, a thriller about a tween being hazed at water polo camp, has merely been looking for release since Cannes and plays Boston Common and the Seaport.
  
  Is This Thing On? continues at the Coolidge, Boston Common, and Kendall Square. It expands to South Bay and Assembly Row next week. Boston Common runs a Kidz Bop Live concert movie Friday to Monday. There's a mystery horror-movie preview at Boston Common, Causeway Street, South Bay, and Assembly Row on Monday. A weekend of 40th anniversary screenings of Labyrinth start at Boston Common and Arsenal Yards on Thursday.
• Apple Fresh Pond opens Tamil-language crime drama Sirai, Hindi-language military drama Ikkis, Malyalam-language comedy/fantasy Sarvam Maya. Hindi blockbuster Dhurandhar is still showing at Fresh Pond, Boston Common, and Causeway Street.
  
  A new Lupin the IIIrd movie, The Immortal Bloodline, plays Boston Common, the Seaport, Assembly Row Sunday/Tuesday (subtitled) and Monday (dubbed).
• The Brattle Theatre gives a second run to Jafar Pahani's It Was Just an Accident from Friday to Thursday, with Bruno Forzani & Hélène Cattet's Eurospy head-trip Reflection in a Dead Diamond sharing the screen those days. After that, they begin a series of memorial screenings, paying tribute to Diane Keaton with The Godfather on Wednesday; Jimmy Cliff with The Harder They Come later Wednesday; Tom Stoppard with Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead on Thursday; and Udo Keir with My Own Private Idaho early/late Thursday.
• The Seaport Alamo has Reservoir Dogs Friday, Monday, and Sunday; a Sam Raimi series with Evil Dead 2 Friday & Wednesday and Army of Darkness Tuesday; the start of weekly screenings of Twin Peaks episodes on Saturday; The Man Who Fell to Earth on Saturday; Real Genius Sunday; Twilight Sunday (movie party) & Monday; and a preview of Dead Man's Wire with a livestreamed Q&A featuring director Gus Van Sant and others on Tuesday.
• The Tuesday Retro Replays at Landmark Kendall Square look kind of random for January, with Superman: The Movie playing th is week. There's also a "Filmmaker Focus' on Stanley Kubrick with A Clockwork Orange on Wednesday; both are available as part of series bundles.
• The Regent Theatre has an encore of "Mountains of the Moon", a collection of outdoor sports adventures set to the music of the Grateful Dead, on Friday evening.
• Joe's Free Films has the Somerville CineClub showing Barbarella at the Somerville Public LIbrary on Wednesday.
• The Museum of Science has Avatar 3 on the Omnimax screen Friday & Saturday evening.
• The Lexington Venue website is only showing Marty Supreme and Song Sung Blue for Friday at this writing, but they're probably open all week but Monday.
  
  The West Newton Cinema picks up Spinal Tap II: The End Continues to pay tribute to Rob Reiner and holds over Marty Supreme, Song Sung Blue, The Librarians, Avatar 3, SpongeBob, The Secret Agent, Hamnet, Zootopia 2, Nuremberg. Thursday's Ty Burr Movie Club selection is Her.
  
  Cinema Salem has Marty Supreme, Song Sung Blue, Zootopia 2, and Wicked: For Good from Friday to Monday. The Wednesday Classic is James Cagney & Joan Blondell in Blonde Crazy, with a Weirdo Wednesday show on the other screen.

I've got even more catch-up to do after the past week's craziness (do not have a 100-year-old boiler in your basement if you can help it), but figure on catching at least We Bury the Dead and No Other Choice among the new arrivals. Checkmy Letterboxd page for progress!