Next Week in Tickets: Films playing Boston 9 January 2026 - 15 January 2025

Starting to get into more regular openings post-Christmas.

• The Coolidge Corner Theatre picks up the latest from jim Jarmusch, Father Mother Sister Brother, and ensemble piece with three different sets of siblings dealing with their parents, or the gap left without them. It also opens at West Newton and Boston Common.
  
  The Coolidge also opens The Voice of Hind Rajab, a docudrama about volunteers in Gaza attempting to locate and rescue a 5-year-old girl trapped inside a car in a combat zone. Thursday evening's show is a special "Panorama" presentation, with Palestinian speakers including engineer Amir Qudaih, festival programmer Michael Maria, and author Sayed Kashua.
  
  Friday night's True Crime Midnight at the Coolidge is Terrence Malick's Badlands; the January Giallo Midnight on Saturday is A Blade in the Dark. There's a "Projections" double feature of Furiosa & Mad Max: Fury Road on Sunday, plus 1984 on Tuesay, Logan's Run on Wednesday, and the director's cut of RoboCop on Thursday; The Elephant Man, with pre-film seminar by BU's Jonathan Foltz, is the Big Screen Classic on Monday; Open Screen on Tuesday; two sold-out screenings of The Chronology of Water with director Kristen Stewart in person (the film opens next Friday).
• Greenland 2: Migration, sequel to a Gerard Butler flick I'm told is surprisingly good, involves leaving the bunker they worked hard to reach in the first film to try and find a new home in post-apocalyptic earth. It's at Fresh Pond, Boston Common, Causeway Street, the Seaport, South Bay, Assembly Row, and Arsenal Yards.
  
  Folks seem to be saying good things about Primate, which involves a rescue chimpanzee who turns rabid attacking his human family! That's at the Capitol, Fresh Pond, Boston Common, Causeway Street, Kendall Square, the Seaport, South Bay, Assembly Row, and Arsenal Yards.
  
  After kicking around festivals for two years, I Was a Stranger gets a release at Boston Common and South Bay via Angel Studios; it features Omar Sy as a smuggler ferrying Palestinian refugees to Europe. My Neighbor Adolf, meanwhile, has been doing festivals and international openings since mid-2023, and features the late Udo Keir as a newly-arrived tenant in a South American apartment complex whom a Holocaust survivor is sure is Adolf Hitler; it's at Boston Common.
  
  Rosemead at Boston Common features Lucy Liu as a mother looking to protect her teenage son (though likely in totally different circumstances than last year's Presence).
  
  Dead Man's Wire is director Gus Van Sant's first feature in years and has a stacked cast including Bill Skarsgaard, Al Pacino, Cary Elwes, Kelly Lynch, and Colman Domingo retelling the story of a 1970s hostage situation. It opens at Boston Common this week and is due to expand next week.
  
  No Other Choice expands from the Coolidge (35mm) and Boston common to The Somerville Theatre, Kendall Square, and Assembly Row (plus the Seaport next weekend). Is This Thing On? adds the Lexington Venue, CinemaSalem, Causeway Street, the Seaport, South Bay, and Assembly Row to the Coolidge, Boston Common, and Kendall Square.
  
  There's a weekend of 40th anniversary screenings of Labyrinth at Boston Common and Arsenal Yards through Sunday. Stand-up comedy special Godfrey: Rebel with a Cause plays Boston Common and the Seaport Wednesday.
• Blockbuster fantasy adventure The Raja Saab opens in Telugu (all week) & Hindi (through Monday) at Apple Fresh Pond, and in Telugu at Boston Common and Causeway Street. Also opening Friday at Fresh Pond is Tamil-language historical action-drama Parasakthi (Fresh Pond). Several other Telugu-langauge films have staggered openings at Fresh Pond, with action-comedy Mana ShankaraVaraprasad Garu opening Sunday, comedy Bhartha Mahasayulaku Wignyapathi opening Monday, Anaganaga Oka Raju opening Tuesday, and romantic comedy Nari Nari Naduma Murari opening Wednesday. Malyalam-language comedy/fantasy Sarvam Maya has an encore at Fresh Pond Saturday morning, and Hindi blockbuster Dhurandhar is still showing at Fresh Pond (Friday only) and Causeway Street.
  
  There's a "Gundam Double Feature Night" program at Boston Common, South Bay, and Assembly Row Monday/Tuesday (partially dubbed) and Thursday (fully subtitled), with Mobile Suit Gundam Iron-Blooded Orphans Urdr-Hunt "-Path of the Little Challenger-", short program "Wedge of Interposition", and Mobile Suit Gundam Wing Endless Waltz.
  
  Chinese fantasia Resurrection continues at the Somerville (through Monday) and Boston Common.
• The Brattle Theatre kicks off their weekend with a Friday Film Matinee of Les Diaboliques, and then gets back to paying tribute to the many folks we've recently lost: Graham Greene in Wind River & Clearcut on Friday; The Godfather on Saturday & Tuesday for Diane Keaton; Keaton in Reds on Saturday; Udo Keir in Flesh for Frankenstein & Blood for Dracula on Saturday; Claudia Cardinale in The Pink Panther & The Leopard Sunday (the first on 35mm film); Diane Keaton's Heaven Sunday & Monday; Diane Ladd in a 35mm print of Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore Sunday & Tuesday; Jimmy Clift in The Harder They Come Monday; Lee Tamahori's Once Were Warriors Monday & Wednesday; a 35mm print of The Princess Bride for Rob Reiner Wednesday & Thursday; and Keaton in Something's Gotta Give on 35mm Thursday.
• The Seaport Alamo has screenings of Twin Peaks episodes 4-6 on Friday & Saturday; celebrates Sam Raimi with Darkman Friday night; pays tribute to Robert Redford with Three Days of the Condor on Saturday; David Bowie with Moonage Daydream Sunday & Tuesday; continues the Twilight movie parties with New Moon on Monday, and has a Terror Tuesday screening of The Cat.
• Landmark Kendall Square brings back some of the Netflix movies that played in the fall (presumably for Academy voters, but they're selling tickets) - Left-Handed Girl, Frankenstein, and Train Dreams play Friday,Tuesday, and Wednesday. The Natural is Tuesday's Retro Replay. Their website seems to show them closed Monday and only using 4 screens or so Saturday & Sunday, which is odd.
• The Capitol Theatre (re-)opens Hamnet.
• The Regent Theatre has an another encore of "Mountains of the Moon", a collection of outdoor sports adventures set to the music of the Grateful Dead, on Friday evening.
• WBUR's CitySpace will host a screening of documentary Mr. Nobody Against Putin Monday evening, including a post-film panel discussion.
• The ICA has their yearly weekend of Sundance Film Festival Shorts starting on Thursday evening.
• The Museum of Science has Avatar 3 on the Omnimax screen Friday & Saturday evenings through the end of January.
• The Lexington Venue website is open all week with Marty Supreme and Is This Thing On?.
  
  The West Newton Cinema opens Father Mother Sister Brother and holds over Marty Supreme, Song Sung Blue, The Librarians, Avatar 3, SpongeBob, The Secret Agent, Hamnet, Zootopia 2, and Nuremberg.
  
  Cinema Salem has Marty Supreme, Song Sung Blue, Zootopia 2, and Is This Thing On? from Friday to Monday. Friday's Night Light show is Don't Torture a Duckling. The Wednesday Classic is A Face in the Crowd, with a Weirdo Wednesday show next door.

I may not have a lot of time for movies this weekend, and honestly don't know what I'll get to Check my Letterboxd page to find out, since I've finally kind of accepted I won't be keeping up with This Week In Tickets this year.