- Fun fact: Margot Robbie has produced Emerald Fennell's previous two features, but "Wuthering Heights" is the first she's appeared in; she and Jacob Erlordi star as the stepsibling lovers in what is apparently a very horny take on Emily Brontë's novel. It's at the Coolidge, the Capitol, Fresh Pond, Jordan's Furniture (Imax Friday-Sunday), the Lexington Venue, West Newton, CinemaSalem, Boston Common (including Imax Laser & Dolby Cinema & XL), 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.
All-star thriller Crime 101 features Chris Hemsworth as a master thief targeting couriers on California's highway 101, Halle Berry as his inside woman at the insurance company, and Mark Ruffalo as the cop tracking him down, with Jennifer Jason Leigh, Nick Nolte, and Barry Keoghan also figuring in the action. It's at Fresh Pond, Jordan's (Imax Friday-Sunday), Boston Common (including Imax Laser & Dolby Cinema), Causeway Street, Kendall Square, the Seaport, South Bay (including Imax Xenon), Assembly Row (including Imax Laser & Dolby Cinema), and Chestnut Hill.
For the kids, there's GOAT, looking for some of that Zootopia cash, only its small prey animal in a world where predators rule is a goat playing a heightened version of basketball. It's at Fresh Pond, the Capitol, West Newton, Boston Common (including Dolby Cinema 2D & RealD 3D), Causeway Street (including RealD 3D), the Seaport, South Bay (including Dolby Cinema 2D & RealD 3D), Assembly Row (including Dolby Cinema 2D & RealD 3D), Arsenal Yards (including CWX), and Chestnut Hill.
Two crazy-looking sci-fi comedies this week: Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die comes from Gore Verbinski and features Sam Rockwell as a time traveler putting together a ragtag team including Michael Pena, Haley Lu Richardson, Zazie Beets, and Juno Temple to prevent the AI that ruins the world from coming on line; it's at Boston Common, South Bay, and Assembly Row. There's also Cold Storage with Joe Keery & Georgina Campbell working at a self-storage unit with a secret room containing a mutated parasitic fungus and Liam Neeson as the government operative sent in to clean in up; that plays Boston Common and Causeway Street.
Also opening is Nirvana the Band the Show the Movie, which mixes a time-travel with hidden-camera shenanigans in the successor to the web & television series by Matt Johnson and Jay McCarrol. It plays the Coolidge, Boston Common, Kendall Square, the Seaport, and South Bay.
Does horror game adaptation The Mortuary Assistant play Boston Common rather than go straight to streaming if Iron Lung hadn't made a buttload of money? Maybe not, but that did and it does.
AMC combines Valentine's Day and Black History Month with The Best Man and Love & Basketball at Boston Common and South Bay. Pretty in Pink screens at Boston Common & Arsenal Yards from Friday to Thursday. "The Blue Angels" has the first of three monthly Imax 3D shows at Boston Common on Saturday.
Previews include I Can Only Imagine 2 at Fresh Pond, Boston Common, and Assembly Row on Saturday; mystery movies at Boston Common, Causeway Street, Kendall Square, the Seaport, South Bay, Assembly Row, and Arsenal Yards on Monday; and Imax early-access shows of EPIC: Elvis Presley in Concert at Jordan's and Assembly Row on Wednesday. Music features include Paul Groban: Live from Union Chapel at Boston Common Friday to Sunday; Eric Church: Evangeline vs. The Machine Comes Alive at Jordan's (Imax) and Boston Common (Imax Laser) on Saturday; and Paul McCartney: Man on the Run, covering his life discovering who he was as a man and musician after the Beatles in the 1970s, plays Boston Common, Kendall Square, and Assembly Row on Thursday. - The Coolidge Corner Theatre opens Pillion, which stars Harry Melling as a mild-mannered fellow who falls into an apparently quite healthy BDSM relationship with a handsome, confident biker played by Alexander Skarsgård. It's also at Kendall Square and Boston Common.
For the weekend midnights, the Coolidge once again has two nights of Whistle, continuing their February gothic tales series with Eve's Bayou on Friday and a 35mm print of Crimson Peak on Saturday. At the other end of the day on Saturday & Sunday mornings are kids' shows of Trolls. They celebrate Valentine's Day with The Princess Bride on Saturday, as well as "Opposites Attract" shows of When Harry Met Sally… on Sunday and What's Up Doc? on Wednesday. For school vacation, there are sing-along matinees of Disney animated classics Mary Poppins (Monday), Beauty and the Beast (Tuesday), The Lion King (Wednesday), and Encanto (Thursday); President's Day has the annual screening of Point Break, playing on 35mm film and including a seminar led by Professor Mikal J. Gaines. Tuesday also has an "Icons" screening of Sidney Poitier in Lilies of the Field, also on 35mm film Thursday evening, there's a Panorama show of Holding Lait, a documentary following the parents of two Gaza captives, with director Brandon Kramer on hand; The Thing is the Cult Classic show later that night. - The Capitol Theatre opens By Design, in which a woman (Juliette Lewis) swaps bodies with a well-crafted chair only to find that her friends and family prefer her inert body as she comes into possession of a handsome bachelor. They also pick up French Jodie Foster mystery A Private Life and play Amélie for Valentine's Day on Saturday. Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory plays on Monday.
The Somerville Theatre hosts The Boston Sci-Fi Film Festival over the weekend, with features on one screen and shorts in the Micro cinema Friday & Saturday, and then the annual 24-hour Marathon in the big room starting at noon on Sunday. For school vacationers, they have The Muppet Movie on Tuesday and The Muppets Take Manhattan.on Thursday, with sensory-friendly screenings early in the afternoon. When Harry Met Sally… plays on 35mm Wednesday for "Feel Good Films". - Indian films at Apple Fresh Pond this week are Telugu-language dance comedy Funky (also at Causeway Street and Boston Common), Telugu-language romance Couple Friendly, Hindi-language crime drama O' Romeo (also at Boston Common and Causeway Street), Hindi-language romantic adventure Tu Yaa Main, and Tamil-language bureaucratic nightmare My Lord. 2010 Telugu-language romantic comedy Orange plays for Valentine's Day on Saturday.
Tunisian/Palestinian Oscar nominee The Voice of Hind Rajab opens at Fresh Pond and CinemaSalem.
Anime Fruits Basket: Prelude plays Boston Common, the Seaport, Assembly Row dubbed on Monday. Scarlet moves to a regular screen (and also includes some dubbed showtimes) at Boston Common.
K-pop doc The Rose: Come Back to Me plays Causeway Street. Another K-Pop concert doc, Stray Kids: The dominATE Experience, sticks around Boston Common.
Lunar New Year movies start arriving Tuesday: Blades of the Guardians is Yeun Woo-Ping's first feature since Master Z in 2017, featuring Chinese action superstar Wu Jing as a wanted fugitive hired for a dangerous escort mission and includes "Big Tony" Leung Ka-Fai, Max Zhang Jin, CiSha, and Jet Li in his first movie since the Mulan remake (not sure whether he's fighting or just mentoring/serving as the villain)! It opens at Boston Common, Causeway Street, South Bay, and Assembly Row. Spy thriller Scare Out is the latest from Zhang Yimou and features Jackson Yee, Song Jia, Yang Mi, and Zhu Yilong; it plays Boston Common and Causeway Street. - The Museum of Science adds "America's Musical Journey" to its rotation of Imax featurettes as of Saturday. Not to be outdone, The New England Aquarium adds "Penguins: A Love Story" the same day.
- The Brattle Theatre starts the weekend with a 35mm print of Dangerous Liaisons for the Friday film matinee, before the traditional (and largely sold-out) shows of Casablanca Friday to Sunday. Other Valentine's features of Bride of Chucky late Friday, a 35mm print of Dirty Dancing on Saturday, and Barb Wire late Sunday.
The timing of Valentine's means they get a slightly later start than usual for the annual Bugs Bunny Film Festival, which starts Sunday and runs through all of school vacation week with an 80 minute program of Looney Tunes - The Seaport Alamo has two free member screenings on Friday, with The Mist at 7pm and Verbinski's The Ring at 9:45. Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me plays Saturday & Sunday; 13 Going on 30 Tuesday afternoon and for a movie party on Thursday; If Beale Street Could Talk on Tuesday. There's a Weird Wednesday show of Dance Freak, and one of Saturday's early shows of Psycho Killer has a livestreamed Q&A afterward.
- The Harvard Film Archive has Alain Kassanda's "Trouble Sleep" on Friday, ahead of his upcoming visit as the 2026 McMillan-Stewart Fellow. The Antonioni/Bertolucci/Olmi series continues with The Spider's Stratagem on Friday, Le Amiche and A Man Named John on Saturday, and L'avventura on Saturday, all on 35mm film. Saturday afternoon has a student-programmed double feature of The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (35mm) and Djibril Diop Mambety's Hyenas. Monday's Kubrick is Paths of Glory on 35mm film.
- The Museum of Fine Arts celebrates Valentine's Day with In the Mood for Love Saturday afternoon, with the original short film playing afterward.
- Landmark Kendall Square has Titanic on Tuesday, and both the 2026 New York Cat Film Festival and Peter Jackson's The Frighteners on Wednesday, and it amuses they're showing that one during the Olympics because I remember the Summer Games absolutely crushing its original release.
- The Regent Theatre hosts the Banff Centre Mountain Film Festival, with a program of 6 short adventure documentaries playing Monday to Thursday.
- Joe's Free Films shows documentary Prime Time Band at the Arlington Library on Wednesday, with director Sky Bergman joining remotely afterward, and three films for Black History Month at Somerville's Armory - Soul, The Hate U Give, and a third to be announced - on Thursday.
- The Lexington Venue is open all week with Amélie (no show Monday), No Other Choice, and "Wuthering Heights". SpongeBob: Search for SquarePants plays matinees Saturday/Sunday/Tuesday/Wednesday/Thursday; documentary featurette "Beyond their Years: The Incredible Legacies of Herb Carnegie and Buck O'Neil" shows for free on Thursday, with director Scott Fitzgerald on hand.
The West Newton Cinema opens Natchez, a documentary looking at a Southern town that attracts tourists interested by its Antebellum attractions though the residents are divided, "Wuthering Heights, and GOAT, holding over Mr. Nobody Against Putin, Send Help, Father Mother Sister Brother, Marty Supreme, The Secret Agent, and Hamnet. Silent film Sparrows starring Mary Pickford plays Sunday afternoon with live accompaniment by Bruce Vogt, and documentary Night Fight screens with filmmaker/subject Khary Saeed Jones on Thursday.
Cinema Salem has Send Help, No Other Choice, The Secret Agent, "Wuthering Heights", The Voices of Hind Rajab, and Hamnet from Friday to Monday. Foxy Brown is Friday's Night Light show and romance on the High Seas is the Wednesday Classic, with a Weirdo Wednesday show down the hall.
The AMC out at the Liberty Tree Mall in Danvers opens indie horror The Observance (featuring Ted Raimi!), horror-comedy Mimics and South African action flick Hunting Jessica Brok
presented on 35mm film. A few evening shows have been bumped to make up for shows cancelled by the snowstorm a couple weeks ago, with Sorry, Baby playing Tuesday and Fréwaka & Weapons on Wednesday.
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