Next Week in Tickets: Films playing Boston 27 February 2026 - 5 March 2026

I wonder how many of the local holdovers are theaters seeing if they can get the tickets they had to cancel earlier in the week back.

• Scream 7, the latest (final?) in the long-running series springs to bring Neve Campbell (who sat out the last one), but loses Melissa Barrera and needed Kevin Williamson to replace Christopher Landon when he dropped out as director, so it seems like kind of a mess, but who knows? It opens on a lot of screens at the Capitol, Fresh Pond, Jordan's Furniture (Imax Friday-Sunday), 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 and Dolby Cinema), Arsenal Yards (including CWX), and Chestnut Hill.
  
  Dreams, starring Jessica Chastain as a socialite who sponsors a Mexican ballet dancer (Isaac Hernández) before stalking him, opens at Fresh Pond and Boston Common.
  
  K-Pops!, which has writer-director-star Anderson .Paak as a musician who travels to Korea to team with his long-lost son for a competition show, plays Boston Common, Causeway Street, and South Bay as an AMC exclusive after sitting on the shelf for a year and a half.
  
  After a week as an Imax exclusive, Baz Luhrmann's EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert expands and moves to regular screens at the Coolidge, Fresh Pond, West Newton, Boston Common, Kendall Square, the Seaport, South Bay, Assembly Row, and Arsenal Yards. Another more contemporary concert film, Twenty One Pilots: More Than We Ever Imagined, opens at Jordan's (Imax Friday-Sunday), Boston Common (including Imax Laser), South Bay, and Assembly Row (including Imax Laser). AURORA: What Happened to the Earth plays Boston Common and the Seaport Wednesday; K-pop concert film Enhypen: Walk the Line Summer Edition plays Boston Common and the Seaport Thursday.
  
  Black History Month shows at Boston Common and South Bay this week are Get on the Bus and The Woman King (with some make-up shows of Fruitvale Station).
  
  Boston Common continues screening Imax docs on Saturday mornings with "Born to Be Wild". There are early access screenings of Hoppers on Saturday at Boston Common (Dolby Cinema), South Bay (Dolby Cinema), Assembly Row (Dolby Cinema), and Chestnut Hill; Dolly shows early on Tuesday at Boston Common and the Seaport. The Imax re-release of The Revenant encores Sunday at Boston Common and Assembly Row.
• Pegasus 3, in which the rally-car driver from the first two films coaches a team that heads to Europe, has made half a billion dollars after a week and a half in China, and opens at Boston Common and Causeway Street for its regular run this weekend. Hong Kong Lunar New Year comedy Night King continues at Causeway Street; Blades of the Guardians continues at Causeway Street and South Bay; Scare Out continues at Causeway Street. John Woo/Chow Yun-Fat classic A Better Tomorrow plays Boston Common (Sunday/Monday/Wednesday) and the Seaport (Sunday/Monday/Tuesday).
  
  Apple Fresh Pond turns their South Asian selection over to open Tamil-language comedy Thaai Kizhavi, Telugu-language comedy Vishnu Vinyasam, Hindi-language drama The Kerala Story 2: Goes Beyond (no show Sunday), and Gujarati-language thriller Paatki (through Sunday).
  
  Anime feature Uma Musume: Pretty Derby: Beginning of a New Era opens at Boston Common, South Bay. Japanese Oscar nominee Kohuko continues at Boston Common.
  
  Korean historical comedy/drama The King's Warden continues at Causeway Street.
• The Capitol Theatre opens The President's Cake, which was Iraq's first submission to the Oscars' foreign-film category and follows a little girl given the task of making a cake for Saddam Hussein, who is visiting for his birthday, very difficult in a poor town. Surprisingly, they're the only place in metro Boston playing it, considering how many times the trailer played at the big chain 'plexes.
  
  The Somerville Theatre has a double feature of Annie Hall (35mm) & Modern Romance on Friday night, a "restoration and recreation" of Erich von Streheim's never-completed Queen Kelly on Sunday afternoon & Monday evening, a make-up screening of snowed-out documentary The Right Track (and a single show of Marty Supreme) on Tuesday, and My Cousin Vinny on 35mm as Wednesday's Feel Good Film.
• Oscar-Nominated Short films start continue this week, with the Animated Shorts at the Coolidge, Kendall Square, The ICA (Saturday/Thursday), the Lexington Venue (Friday/Sunday/Wednesday/Thursday), and CinemaSalem (Friday to Monday); the Live Action Shorts at the Coolidge, the ICA (Friday/Saturday), Kendall Square, West Newton, and CinemaSalem (Friday to Monday); and the Documentary Shorts at the Coolidge, the Venue (Friday/Saturday/Wednesday/Thursday), and CinemaSalem (Friday to Monday).
• In addition to EPiC and the documentary shorts, The Coolidge Corner Theatre showcases Oscar nominee for Best Makeup The Ugly Stepsister at midnight Friday & Saturday, with the other screen showing 35mm prints of Bram Stoker's Dracula (Friday) and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (Saturday).
  
  There's a special Science on Screen presentation of the new documentary Starman on Sunday, with both director Robert Stone and subject Gentry Lee in attendance. They start a Mira Nair series on Tuesday with Salaam Bombay!, and also kick off two month-long courses: "Irish Ayes" Tuesday mornings and "Calling the Shots", focused on women filmmakers, on Wednesday evenings, whose companion screenings starting with a 35mm print of Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du commerce, 1080 Bruxelles. Thursday is also busy, with the opening night shows of Sirât including introductions & Q&As with director Oliver Laxe, a big-screen classic show of Saving Face with BU Professor Arianna Qianru James leading a pre-film seminar, and a cult classic screening of The Doom Generation.
• The Brattle Theatre kicks off the weekend with Flashdance for the Friday Film Matinee, and then experiments with a couple of Ultimate Double Features, in which they show a film where characters go to the movies, pausing it so that the audience can watch film with in a film. Vivre Sa Vie with The Passion of Joan of Arc embedded plays Friday (and as a conventional double feature Saturday); Donnie Darko shows with The Evil Dead on 35mm film in the middle on Saturday (and as a normal twin-bill on Sunday). There's also a standard double feature of The Last Picture Show & Red River on Sunday (I wonder whether it was Columbia or United Artists who said no).
  
  They also show the new restoration of Hard Boiled on Friday & Saturday, and then on Monday they begin to flash back to some the first films that the Brattle Film Foundation showed upon taking the theater in 2001: The Mystery of Picasso (Monday/Tuesday), The Gleaners and I (Monday Tuesday), a 35mm print of The Seventh Seal (Tuesday/Wednesday), Ugetso on 35mm Tuesday, a double feature of Crime Wave (35mm) & Devil in a Blue Dress on Wednesday, and Daughters of the Dust on Thursday.
• Landmark Kendall Square has music documentary Billy Idol Should Be Dead on Sunday, My Neighbor Totoro for the first of a month of Studio Ghibli Retro Replays on Tuesday, and Akira Kurosawa's The HIdden Fortress on Wednesday.
• The free member screening at The Seaport Alamo on Friday is Longlegs. Interview with the Vampire plays Saturday & Sunday matinees. There's also a free member screening of Sweet Charity on Thursday.
• The Harvard Film Archive wraps the Antonion/Bertolucci/Olmi series with The Fiancés and Il Poto on Friday and The Sheltering Sky on Saturday. After that, the Kubrick series continues with the restored/uncensored version of Spartacus on Sunday and a 35mm print of Dr. Strangelove on Monday. They also have a special presentation of Gardner Film Study Center Fellow Ali Cherri's The Dam with the filmmaker present on Wednesday; admission is free but there are no advance tickets.
• The Museum of Fine Arts continues to show Oscar-nominated films and those they could have reasonably expected to be nominated. Bugonia plays Friday night, Die My Love on Saturday afternoon, No Other Choice Sunday afternoon, and Marty Supreme on Thursday evening.
• The Boston Baltic Film Festival has a pretty packed schedule in the Bright Screening Room of ArtsEmerson's Paramount Theater this weekend: Frank (Estonia) onFriday; To Be Continued Teenhood (Latvia), Rolling Papers (Latvia), Fresh, Blood, Even a Heart (Latvia), and Renovation (LIthuania) on Saturday; Tasty (Lithuania), Borderline (LIthuania), Aurora (Estonia), and Red Code Blue (Latvia) on Saturday. Almost all of them have filmmakers in town for Q&A, with To Be Continued Teenhood and another dozen-plus movies available to stream starting on Monday.
• The Museum of Science celebrates Black History Month with Sinners on the Omni dome Friday and Soul there on Saturday; tickets are already on sale for weekend shows of The Bride! over the next couple weeks with Project Hail Mary on tap starting the 20th.
• The Regent Theatre has Nepali drama Harsha on Friday and music doc Billy Preston: That's the Way God Planned It on Thursday, the latter featuring Leon Beal doing a live set of Preston's music before the film.
• Movies at MIT is apparently getting a late start this semester, with Die Welle showing Friday night.
• The Lexington Venue is open Friday to Sunday and Wednesday/Thursday with Midwinter Break and the Oscar shorts programs. There are free screenings of Nine Queens Saturday morning, documentary The Public Library on Tuesday, and "The (M) Factor 2: Before the Pause" on Wednesday.
  
  The West Newton Cinema opens the Oscar Live-action shorts and EPiC, continuing Pillion, Midwinter Break, GOAT, Father Mother Sister Brother, Marty Supreme, and *Hamnet. The Six Triple Eight plays Saturday, IFFBoston alum Come See Me in the Good Light plays Tuesday followed by a remote Q&A with director Ryan White, Rebel with a Clause returns on Wednesday, and there's a "Producers' Circle" screening of The Last Yztari on Thursday.
  
  Cinema Salem has all of the Oscar Shorts, Scream 7, and "Wuthering Heights" from Friday to Monday. Deep Cover is the Friday Night Light show, Misery encores on Saturday afternoon, there's a (rescheduled?) Whodunnit Watch Party Sunday evening, and the original King Kong for the Wednesday Classic (with Weirdo Wednesday down the hall).
  
  If you can make it out to Woburn, an English dub of Czech animated film Proud Princess is playing there. The Liberty Tree Mall in Danvers is apparently the only place to see Undercard, featuring Wanda Sykes as the getting-clear former fighter mentoring her son, despite having its trailer play a lot downtown for the past few weeks.

Oh dang, I'm traveling for vacation on Thursday, so that means I'd better catch the Oscar shorts right quick! I'll also try to fit Pegasus 3 and possibly The President's Cake in, though that's a real hit taken on a lot of good rep. Follow along at my Letterboxd page!