Next Week in Tickets: Films playing Boston 20 February 2026 - 26 February 2025

It's Oscar shorts time! But it's also a weekend when you can see a couple of my favorite from recent Fantasias that I wouldn't have expected to play here.

• Baz Luhrmann gathered a great deal of reference footage while making Elvis, including some not seen in 50 years, and puts it together as EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert, which gets an early Imax release at Jordan's Furniture (through Sunday), Boston Common, and Assembly Row (through Sunday).
  
  Does Glen Powell having a psychopath's smile make How to Make a Killing, in which he plays the last in line for a huge fortune bumping off the cousins, aunts, and uncles ahead of him in a remake of Kind Hearts and Coronets, work better or worse? It's at the Somerville, Boston Common, Causeway Street, the Seaport, South Bay, Assembly Row, and Arsenal Yards.
  
  Midwinter Break, a drama featuring Lesley Manville and Ciarán Hinds as a couple wrestling with difficult truths during a trip to Amsterdam, opens at the Coolidge, the Capitol, Fresh Pond, the Lexington Venue, West Newton, Boston Common, and Assembly Row.
  
  I Can Only Imagine 2 continues the story of musician Bart Millard (John Michael Finley), apparently having difficulty managing band MercyMe's success. It's at Fresh Pond, Boston Common, Assembly Row, Arsenal Yards, and Chestnut Hill.
  
  Huh, last week Georgina Campbell was in Cold Storage from Gavin Polone's production company Pariah; this week she stars in the longtime producer's directorial debut (with a script by Andrew Kevin Walker), Psycho Killer, playing a uniformed cop who hunts a serial killer who murdered her husband and partner. It's at Boston Common, the Seaport, South Bay, and Assembly Row.
  
  Redux Redux was one of my favorite movies at Fantasia last summer, with Michaela McManus starring for her brothers as a woman who has been bouncing through parallel universes to kill every version of the man who murdered her daughter, but things change when she discovers his next intended victim; it plays Boston Common. Also opening at Boston Common is The Is Not a Test, with a group of students holing up in their high school during a zombie attack.
  
  Pillion adds the Somerville, West Newton, and the Seaport to the Coolidge, Kendall Square, and Boston Common.
  
  Paul McCarntney: Man on the Run has and encore screening at Kendall Square on Sunday afternoon. Chase Atlantic: Lost in Heaven plays Boston Common on Saturday. Twenty One Pilots: More Than We Ever Imagined has early screenings at Jordan's (Imax), Boston Common (including Imax Laser), and Assembly Row (including Imax Laser) on Wednesday.
  
  Black History presentations at Boston Common and South Bay include Sinners (also returning to Arsenal Yards) and Fruitvale Station. Imax documentary film "Deep Sky" plays Boston Common on Saturday. Boston Common will be showing the Dodgers' opening series in Tokyo on Monday & Tuesday. K-Pops has a preview with livestreamed Q&A at South Bay and Assembly Row on Tuesday; Werner Herzog documentary Ghost Elephants has a one-off show with livestreamed Q&A on Thursday at Assembly Row before heading to streaming. The Revenant has a tenth anniversary Imax re-release at Jordan's, Boston Common, and Assembly Row on Thursday. The Scream 7 opening night show on the Dolby Cinema screens at Boston Common and South Bay are "fan events".
• The Coolidge Corner Theatre Holding Lait, a documentary following the parents of two Gaza captives, following last week's special preview.
  
  Midnight films at the Coolidge this weekend are The Others on Friday and a 35mm print of Sleepy Hollow on Saturday. Sunday features a Goethe-Institut presentation of Punching the World in the morning and a Sidney Poitier spotlight of A Raisin in the Sun in the afternoon, with Boston Globe critic Odie Henderson on hand for a seminar beforehand. There theater appears to be closed on Tuesday, while Wednesday features an "Opposites Attract" show of 10 Things I Hate About You while Thursday offers a Cinema Jukebox show of Almost Famous in the evening and a 35mm Cult Classic show of Surviving the Game later.
• The big Hong Kong Lunar New Year comedy this year is Night King, with Dayo Wong and Sammi Cheng as the team trying to save their hostess club, opens at Kendall Square on Friday. What looks like the big Lunar New Year hit for 2026, Pegasus 3, plays on the Imax screens at South Bay, Assembly Row on Monday & Tuesday before its regular run begins at Causeway Street Thursday Night. Yeun Woo-Ping's Blades of the Guardians continues at Boston Common, Causeway Street, and South Bay after opening Tuesday; Zhang Yimous's Scare Out likewise continues at Boston Common and Causeway Street.
  
  Indian films opening at Apple Fresh Pond this week include Hindi-language romance Do Deewane Seher Mein (also at Boston Common), Hindi-language courtroom drama Assi, Kannada-language crime drama Rakkasapuradol (through Sunday), and Telugu-language comedy Hey Bhagawan! (through Sunday at Fresh Pond/all week at Causeway Street). Hindi-language crime drama O' Romeo continues at Fresh Pond and Boston Common.
  
  Japanese Oscar submission Kohuko, an epic about the son of a yakuza who enters the world of kabuki, opens at Boston Common; it's pretty great and absolutely deserves the nomination it did receive for best makeup.
  
  Korean drama The King's Warden, following the man assigned to watch a Joseon-era king in exile, plays Causeway Street.
  
  . It's not listed on Fandango for some reason, but Vietnam also celebrates Lunar New Year, and a family film from that country, A Gift from Heavan, opens at Causeway Street and South Bay.
• The Brattle Theatre continues the annual Bugs Bunny Film Festival through the end of school vacation on Sunday, and also plays Icelandic drama The Love That Remains for most of the rest of the week.
  
  Interruptions include an RPM Fest presentation of "Beyond Breaths" with filmmaker Kalpana Subramanian on hand to discuss her short films Sunday afternoon (they also open an exhibition at the Boston CyberArts Gallery on Saturday that will run through 28 March). Monday has a free "Elements of Cinema" showing and discussion of Waiting for Guffman on 35mm film, Tuesday has a special Twin Peaks Day marathon of the first 8 episodes plus the original pilot, and Wednesday & Thursday have late shows or the restored Hard Boiled.
• Oscar-Nominated Short films start popping up this week, with the Animated Shorts at the Coolidge, the Capitol (Saturday to Thursday), Kendall Square, The ICA (Friday), West Newton, and CinemaSalem (Friday to Monday); the Live Action Shorts at the Coolidge, the Capitol (Friday & Monday to Thursday), Kendall Square, and CinemaSalem (Friday to Monday); and the Documentary Shorts at the ICA (Sunday) and CinemaSalem (Friday to Monday).
• Landmark Kendall Square has matinees of Netflix's Oscar-nominated documentary The Perfect Neighbor all week, and also brings back the streamer's Frankenstein and Train Dreams if you've got more catching up you want to do on the big screen. Tuesday's Retro Replay is How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days, and both the 2026 New York Dog Film Festival program and The Lovely Bones play Wednesday.
• The Somerville Theatre has a 35mm double feature of The Wizard of Oz (IB Technicolor!) & The Bad Seed on Friday night, and another one of The Dead Thing & From Beyond on Saturday; I was pretty impressed with The Dead Thing when it played Fantasia - it was trying to figure out how you make gothic horror work in a world of dating apps, gig work, and roommates while everyone else was setting things 30 years in the past to avoid such things, and the filmmakers will be on hand for intros, Q&A, and signings. They also feature Sidney Poitier on Sunday, with 35mm prints of In the Heat of the Night & Pressure Point. Documentary The Right Track plays Monday, Little Miss Sunshine is the 35mm Feel Good Film on Thursday, and there's a "Silents Synched" presentation of A Woman of the World with Pearl Jam on the soundtrack Thursday.
  
  The Capitol Theatre has the monthly "Disasterpiece Theater" night on Monday, apparently starting at 8pm rather than the usual 7pm.
• The free member screening at The Seaport Alamo on Friday is The Cabin in the Woods. Saturday has a marathon of the first four episodes of Twin Peaks: The Return, a "Book Club" screening of "Wuthering Heights" and a "movie party" for The Substance. Titanic and Millennium Mambo play Sunday; Harold and Maude plays Monday; a dance-along preview of EPiC and a special screening of Steve Schapiro: Being Everywhere with director Maura Smith on hand for a Q&A Tuesday; and both Saving Face and a free member screening of Perfect Days on Thurday.
• Liane Brandon introduces three 16mm films from the The Harvard Film Archive's collection on Friday evening (her own "Betty Tells Her Story" plus "Growing Up Female" and "...And Everything Nice") on Friday evening; there's a sold-out screening of Lolita on 35mm film later that night, although one may get lucky in the rush line. 2026 McMillan-Stewart Fellow Alain Kassanda will visit to present two of his films: Colette et Justin plays on Saturday evening and Coconut Head Generation on Monday, with subject Tobi Akinde also on hand that night. Sunday afternoon features Bernando Bertolucci's Partner.
• The Museum of Fine Arts has three Oscar-nominated films this weekend - The Secret Agent on Friday night, Sentimental Value on Saturday afternoon, and It Was Just an Accident Sunday afternoon.
• The Boston Asian American Film Festival presents documentary Third Act at ArtsEmerson's Paramount Theater on Saturday afternoon, with director Tad Nakamura and producer Karen L. Ishizuka there for a Q&A and post-film reception.
• The Regent Theatre has the local premiere of Deepfaking Sam Altman on Thursday, with both filmmaker Adam Bhala Lough and Harvard AI researcher Rich Hakim there to answer questions.
• The Lexington Venue plays Midwinter Break and "Wuthering Heights" Friday/Saturday/Sunday/Wednesday/Thursday, with Wednesday night's screening of Midwinter Break captioned and followed by discussion with Helen Epstein.
  
  The West Newton Cinema opens the Oscar Animated shorts, Pillion, and Midwinter Break, holding over Natchez, "Wuthering Heights, GOAT, Father Mother Sister Brother, Marty Supreme, The Secret Agent, and Hamnet. There's a "Behind the Screen" presentation of All God's Children on Sunday, and The Hudsucker Proxy plays Thursday afternoon.
  
  Cinema Salem has all of the Oscar Shorts, Send Help, and "Wuthering Heights" from Friday to Monday. Spooky Picture Show and Tammy Nicole TooTight show Tales from the Crypt: Bordello of Blood Saturday night, and there's a Whodunnit Watch Party on Sunday. Sabrina '54 is the Wednesday Classic, with a Weirdo Wednesday show down the hall, and Misery plays Thursday.

I've already got tickets for Ghost Elephants and Imax Pegasus 3, will probably do Night King, and The King's Warden, am more interested in Psycho Killer than expected, might try for The Perfect Neighbor and at least the From Beyond and Pressure Point halves of the Somerville double features (since I've seen the other halves and the days are looking tight). Lots of grist for my Letterboxd pagethere!