Next Week in Tickets: Films playing Boston 6 February 2026 - 12 February 2025

Odd weekend incoming.

• After all, the biggest opening is arguably The Moment, a mock-doc starring Charlie XCX in an exaggerated comedy about her negotiating the absurdities of her first stadium tour. It's at the Coolidge, the Somerville, Boston Common, Causeway Street, Kendall Square, the Seaport (including Dolby Atmos), and Assembly Row.
  
  Luc Besson directs a new take on Dracula that seems to owe a lot to Francis Ford Coppola's, with Christopher Waltz as a vampire-hunting priest. It's playing Fresh Pond, Boston Common, Causeway Street, Kendall Square, the Seaport, South Bay, and Assembly Row.
  
  Kevin James stars in Solo Mio, playing a man jilted at the altar who goes on the honeymoon anyway and meets a nice local. That's at Fresh Pond, Boston Common, Causeway Street, South Bay, and Arsenal Yards.
  
  Buffalo Kids, an animated film about Irish orphans having adventures when they come to America, actually comes from Spain and has been dubbed with a British cast including Gemma Arterton, Sean Bean, and Stephen Graham. It's at Fresh Pond and Boston Common. Another animated adventure, Time Hoppers: The Silk Road, is from Canada and features characters of mostly MENA descent; it's at Boston Common Saturday & Sunday.
  
  The third part of Renny Harlin's 3-part remake of The Strangers opens at Fresh Pond, Boston Common, Causeway Street, the Seaport, South Bay, Assembly Row, Chestnut Hill; I'd love to hear how likely my theory that it started as a 6-episode streaming series is. There's also Whistle, in which a group of teenagers including Dafne Keen and Sky Yang find an "Aztec Death Whistle" that causes the way one would eventually die to manifest in the present. Goofy premise, nice cast. It's at Fresh Pond, Boston Common, and the Coolidge (Friday/Saturday midnights only, with screenwriter Owen Egerton on-hand Saturday).
  
  Colombian film A Poet, with an aging poet mentoring a teenager in a scene that's not exactly great for young people, plays Boston Common.
  
  AMC has a number of films showing at Boston Common and South Bay for Black History Month, with Ali playing this week.
  
  Assembly Row and South Bay will be showing the Winter Olympics at various times, starting with the opening ceremony on Friday afternoon. There are early RealD 3D previews of GOAT Saturday at Boston Common and Assembly Row; a preview of Crime 101 with a livestreamed Q&A afterward at Kendall Square, South Bay, and Assembly Row on Monday; a mystery preview at Boston Common, Causeway Street, the Seaport, South Bay, Assembly Row, also on Monday; and an early Dolby Cinema show of Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die at Boston Common and Assembly Row Tuesday. Concert film Eric Church: Evangeline vs. The Machine Comes Alive plays Boston Common (Imax Laser), with Gale: Yellow Brick Road (yet another dark take on Oz) also playing Boston Common that evening.
• Apple Fresh Pond opens Tamil-language romance With Love, Guari-language romantic comedy Lagan Laagii Re, Malayalam-language thriller Anomie (through Sunday), and Malayalam-language comedy Ashakal Aayiram (through Sunday). Hindi-language action flick Border 2 keeps going for another week.
  
  AMC discovered Hong Kong fantasy-action movie Back to the Past was severely underbooked last weekend and added a screen at Causeway Street and more shows at Boston Common by Sunday.
  
  Anime Scarlet didn't get an Oscar nom with its odd December limited release, but I like it quite a bit, and it plays mostly matinees at Boston Common (Imax Laser) and South Bay (Imax Xenon) this week; it's slated for more showtimes when it moves to regular screens Thursday.
  
  K-pop concert doc Stray Kids: The dominATE Experience plays Boston Common (including Imax Laser & Dolby Cinema), Causeway Street, the Seaport, South Bay (Imax Xenon & Dolby Cinema), Assembly Row (Imax Laser & Dolby Cinema).
• The Brattle Theatre opens Magellan with Gael Garcia Bernal as the first navigator to cross the Pacific; it's probably the most mainstream thing Filipino filmmaker Lav Diaz has done and its 164-minute runtime is probably among his shortest! They also have the restoration of Safe from Friday to Sunday. Before that, the weekend begins withh a Friday Film Matinee of Do the Right Thing in 35mm.
• The Somerville Theatre has Parsley from Friday to Tuesday; this Dominican film recounts one of the darkest periods of that nation's history (when all Haitians in the country were ordered executed in 1937) from the perspective of a pregnant Haitian married to a Dominican man. One Battle After Another and The Testament of Ann Lee continue 70mm screenings through Sunday (check the screen for Ann Lee). After that, The Boston Sci-Fi Film Festival kicks off with a preview of Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die and two shorts programs on Wednesday, with Dream Theater, The Black Hole (not the 1970s Disney film), and another shorts program on Thursday.
  
  The Capitol Theatre picks up Sentimental Value for those who need to do a bit of Oscar catch-up.
• In addition to the special shows of Whistle (with the writer present on Friday), The Coolidge Corner Theatre's February midnights are gothic romances, starting appropriately enough with a 35mm print of Ken Russell's Gothic on Friday and Tony Scott's The Hunger on Saturday. The weekend's "Cinema Masala" is a new restoration of Sholay playing in the big room Saturday (sold out) and Sunday. Monday features both a stage & screen show of Auntie Mame and a special preview of Pillion featuring director (and Coolidge Breakthrough Artist Award winner) Harry Lighton. There's Open Screen on Tuesday, an "Opposites Attract" show of Woman of the Year on Wednesday, and Now, Voyager on 35mm Thursday with a pre-film seminar led by UMass Boston professor Sarah Keller
• Folks keep going to Two Sleepy People at The Seaport Alamo, huh? They also kick off a month of free-to-members Friday night horror movies with John Carpenter's The Thing, jump forward to the end of the original run of Twin Peaks with episodes 28-30 on Saturday, plus Repo Man Saturday evening, a "Crafthouse" screening of the musical Phantom of the Opera Sunday afternoon, Brief Encounter a bit later Sunday, Ciao! Manhattan and Tales from the Crypt: Demon Knight on Tuesday, and both a movie party for My Best Friend's Wedding and a preview of Nirvana The Band The Show The Movie with livestreamed Q&A on Wednesday.
• The Harvard Film Archive has more Antonioni/Bertolucci/Olmi series with Red Desert introduced by Max Goldberg on Friday (sold out), plus The Spider's Stratagem and Partner on Saturday. The Complete Stanley Kubrick has an encore of Killer's Kiss and "Day of the Fight" on Sunday and The Killing on Monday. Everything this weekend is on 35mm film.
• The Museum of Fine Arts concludes their annual Festival of Films From Iran with Black Rabbit, White Rabbit Friday evening, The Great Yawn of HIstory Saturday afternoon, and Taste of Cherry Sunday afternoon.
• Time Travel IS Dangerous! plays as part of "Time Travel on Screen" at the MIT Museum on Friday night, with Stephen Fry narrating a tale of two thrift-shop owners who use a discarded time machine to fill their shop with antiques.
• Landmark Kendall Square has Ghost on Tuesday, and Alfred Hitchcock's Suspicion on Wednesday.
• The rescheduled-due-to-weather last day of the Belmont World Film's annual Family Film Festival is now Saturday, with "The Scarecrow's Wedding", School Chale Hum, and We Are Greenland: Soccer Is Freedom playing at the Regent.
• The Regent Theatre also hosts the Banff Centre Mountain Film Festival, with a program of 6 short adventure documentaries playing Monday to Thursday.
• Joe's Free Films shows Crossfire playing with the Somerville CineClub at the West Branch Library, part of a series on film noir and the Red Scare.
• The Lexington Venue is open Friday to Sunday, Tuesday, and Thursday with The Secret Agent, Hamnet, and A Private Life. Massachusetts Avenue: Life Along Cambridge's Main Artery plays with Q&A Saturday (the Venue is on that street, although well past the Cambridge border!), Among Neighbors on Sunday morning, and there's a free screening of documentary The Social Dilemma followed by discussion on Tuesday..
  
  The West Newton Cinema opens Oscar nominated documentary Mr. Nobody Against Putin and holds over Arco, Send Help, The Testament of Ann Lee, The Choral, One Battle After Another, Father Mother Sister Brother, Marty Supreme, The Secret Agent, and Hamnet. Filmmaker John Sayles visits on Saturday, reading from his new novel Crucible and hosting a screening of City of Hope. Sinners plays as a Behind The Screen show on Sunday, and Train Dreams plays Thursday.
  
  Cinema Salem has Send Help, Iron Lung, No Other Choice, The Secret Agent, and Hamnet from Friday to Monday. Casablanca is the Wednesday Classic, with a Weirdo Wednesday show on another screen..

I'm thinking Magellan, Parsley, Dracula, and maybe The Moment among new releases; Safe and Time Travel Is Dangerous! from the rep, and some Oscar catch-up that really needs doing before the flood of movies for Valentine's Day/vacation week (and maybe Lunar New Year). Maybe check out some stuff for the SF film fest, although they make it difficult to get a handle on it. Updates on My Letterboxd page daily. Well, no promises, but I'm on a 39-day streak right now, so odds are good.