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

Got a good, solid two and a half weeks of not really getting to the multiplexes ahead of me, so let's see what's going to pile up!

• Kind of crazy that Jessie Buckley is picking up awards for Hamnet during the release of The Bride! - has there ever been a bigger tonal difference between what you're repping at the Oscars and in theaters? In it, she plays a corpse reanimated to be the bride of Frankenstein (Christian Bale), with Annette Bening as the a mad doctor, Plus Penelope Cruz, one of the Skarsgaards, and director Maggie Gyllenhaal's kid brother Jake. It's at the Coolidge, the Somerville, Fresh Pond, Jordan's Furniture (Imax Friday-Sunday), CinemaSalem, Boston Common (including Imax Laser & Dolby Cinema), Causeway Street, Kendall Square, the Seaport, South Bay (including Imax Xenon), Assembly Row (including Imax Laser), Arsenal Yards (including CWX), and Chestnut Hill.
  
  The latest Pixar film is Hoppers, which has an animal lover's brain uploaded into a robotic beaver so she can observe them, only to have everything get chaotic. Is it just me, or are Pixar movies not the events they once were any more, either from getting shuffled to streaming or a few lackluster entries? This one opens at the Arlington Capitol, Fresh Pond (including 3D), Jordan's (Imax Friday-Sunday), West Newton, CinemaSalem, Boston Common (including Imax Laser 2D & Dolby Cinema 2D & RealD 3D), Causeway Street (including RealD 3D), Kendall Square, the Seaport, South Bay (including Imax Xenon 2D & Dolby Cinema 2D & RealD 3D), Assembly Row (including Imax Laser 2D & Dolby Cinema 2D & RealD 3D), Arsenal Yards (including CWX), and Chestnut Hill.
  
  Rejoice, for the opening of Protector means its preview will no longer be before Every Single Movie, although to be fair this Milla Jovovich-chasing-her-kidnapped-daughter flick looks more generic than bad. It's at Boston Common, South Bay, and Assembly Row. Another well-trailered movie, Youngblood starring Ashton James as an African-American hockey prodigy clashing with an otherwise all-white team in Ontario, opens at Fresh Pond and Boston Common.
  
  Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man has Cillian Murphy reprising his role of Tommy Selby to show what the gangster was up to during World War II; doesn't appear to have a lot of other returning characters, but Rebecca Ferguson, Barry Keoghan, and Tim Roth are a nice cast regardless. It plays Fresh Pond, Kendall Square, and the Seaport for a couple weeks before Netflix.
  
  Horror movie Dolly stars Fabianne Therese as a woman kidnapped by folks intending to put her in the role of a child; it's at Boston Common, Causeway Street, and the Seaport.
  
  There's a Dolby Cinema preview of undertone at Boston Common and Assembly Row on Monday, and a mystery preview at Boston Common, Causeway Street, South Bay, and Assembly Row the same night. The first two episodes of the new season of One Piece play Boston Common (including XL) and Assembly Row on Tuesday. Boston Common also has the two-day Best Picture marathon, with Train Dreams, The Secret Agent, One Battle After Another, Hamnet, and Frankenstein paying this Saturday and the rest next week (and, yes, they're including the Netflix-produced movies this year!). Music flicks Enhypen: Walk the Line (Summer Edition) and Aurora: What Happened to the Earth? play Boston Common and the Seaport on Saturday. Imax doc "A Beautiful Planet" plays Boston Common in Imax 3D on Saturday. The Optimist, a drama about a Holocaust survivor played by Stephen Lang who connects with a young woman played by Elsie Fisher, plays Boston Common, Kendall Square Wednesday evening.
• The Coolidge Corner Theatre has a 35mm print of Sirât (on Screen #2), with Sergi López as a father searching for his missing daughter in Morocco, following her trail deeper into the rave scene. It also plays digitally at West Newton, Boston Common.
  
  The Coolidge has two things going during the midnight hour this weekend - at 11pm, they welcome Lloyd Kaufman, with Mr. Melvin on Friday and Sgt. Kabukiman NYPD on Saturday; Oscar nominee The Ugly Stepsister plays in the new wing at 11:59 both nights. On Sunday, they've got a sold-out Cinema Masala screening of Dil Chahta Hai; The Battle of Algiers plays on 35mm film for the Big Screen Classic Show on Monday; there's both Open Screen and a digital restoration of Mira Nair's Mississippi Masala on Tuesday; and The Last Showgirl is the "Calling the Shots" show on Wednesday.
• The Indian movies seem to be at the other 'plexes this week, with one Telugu-language comedy, Mension House Mallesh, at Causeway Street and another, Sampradayini Suppini Suddapoosani at Boston Common, Causeway Street; Telugu-language thriller Mrithunjay opens at Boston Common. Apple Fresh Pond plays Telugu-language comedy Sathi Leelavathi Friday and Sunday, and Malayalam-language sci-fi film Sathi Leelavathi on Saturday, with Tamil-language comedy Thaai Kizhavi held over for the week.
  
  Lunar New Year movies hanging around include Pegasus 3 at Boston Common and Causeway Street; Hong Kong Lunar New Year comedy Night King at Causeway Street; and Blades of the Guardians at Causeway Street.
  
  Anime blockbuster Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle returns to Boston Common, Causeway Street, South Bay. Uma Musume: Pretty Derby: Beginning of a New Era and Japanese Oscar nominee Kohuko continue at Boston Common.
  
  Korean historical comedy/drama The King's Warden continues at Causeway Street.
• The Somerville Theatre has independent thriller Heel on Friday & Sunday, Eastern Western with Biliana & Marina Grozdanova and cinematographer/editor Cameron Wheeless on-hand for a Q&A on Sunday, comedy Paying for It on Monday & Tuesday, Good Will Hunting for the 35mm Feel Good Film on Wednesday, and the 4K restoration of Henry Jaglom's Can She Bake a Cherry Pie on Thursday.
  
  The Capitol Theatre continues to be the place showing The President's Cake, hosts the second day of "Boston Bitdown 2" on Friday, and has a "Capitol Classics" screening of To Kill a Mockingbird on Saturday.
• The Brattle Theatre kicks starts the weekend with a Friday Film Matinee of Easy Rider, and then plays the new reconstruction of Queen Kelly from Friday to Sunday, with The Ugly Stepsister mostly playing later Friday to Monday. They've also got a 35mm print of A League of Their Own playing Saturday & Sunday; a revolutionary-makeup double feature of Planet of the Apes '68 & An American Werewolf in London on Tuesday, and then kick off "Kate the Great" with The Philadelphia Story & Holiday on Thursday, the former on 35mm film.
• Oscar-Nominated Short films start continue this week, with the Animated Shorts at the Coolidge, Kendall Square, The ICA (Saturday/Sunday), the Lexington Venue (Friday/Saturday/Sunday/Tuesday/Wednesday), and CinemaSalem (Saturday/Sunday/Monday); the Live Action Shorts at the Coolidge, the ICA (Saturday/Sunday), Kendall Square, the Venue (Friday/Sunday/Wednesday), and CinemaSalem (Friday/Sunday); and the Documentary Shorts at the Coolidge, the Venue (Saturday/Wednesday), West Newton, and CinemaSalem (Friday/Saturday/Monday).
• The Harvard Film Archive goes an starts a Korean crime series while I'm out of town with Life Line on Friday and The Last Witness on Saturday. Saturday also has a matinee double feature of The Flowers of St. Francis & Network, both on 35mm film. The Kubrick series continues with a vintage print of the original cut of Spartacus on Sunday and a sold-out show of 2001 on Monday (although you may get lucky if there's no-shows).
• The Museum of Fine Arts has Bi Gan's Resurrection on Friday night, Swiss Oscar submission Late Shift on Saturday afternoon, and Hamnet Sunday afternoon.
• The Seaport Alamo kicks off weekly screenings of the Jurassic Park series with sold-out shows of the first on Friday & Sunday, continues showing Twin Peaks: The Return with episodes 7-9 on Saturday, and starts weekly screenings of the Extended Editions of Lord of the Rings with Fellowship on Sunday. Dark comedy Idiotika plays Saturday & Wednesday, and then they appear to be closed Monday with free member screenings of everything playing on Tuesday, plus a member screening of Bad Santa on Thursday.
• The Boston Asian American Film Festival presents two films at ArtsEmerson's Paramount Theater this weekend: Diamond Diplomacy with director Yuriko Gamo Romer on Friday night, and Chris Grace: As Scarlett Johansson playing Saturday afternoon.
• Landmark Kendall Square has Princess Mononoke for the Studio Ghibli Retro Replay on Tuesday, and an "Directors in Focus" screening of Akira Kurosawa's Dreams on Wednesday.
• The Regent Theatre has African Academy Award winner Nawi: Dear Future Me (Kenya's Oscar submission) on Wednesday evening.
• The in-person portion of The Boston Baltic Film Festival has wrapped, but many selections are still available to stream.
• The Museum of Science has Friday & Saturday screenings of The Bride! on the Omni screen, with Project Hail Mary slated to start the 20th.
• Movies at MIT has The Dark Knight Friday & Saturday evenings. They're not sending emails to the list (at least, not to those of us not at MIT), but I'm sure they still appreciate a heads-up on attendance.
• The Lexington Venue is open all week but Monday with All That's Left of You (no show Wednesday), The Voice of Hind Rajab, and the Oscar shorts programs. There's a free screening of The Outer Limits: The Inheritors, a two-part episode of the original series starring Robert Duvall, on Sunday morning, and "Exhibition on Screen" documentary Turner & Constable on Thursday.
  
  The West Newton Cinema opens the Oscar Documentary shorts, Hoppers, and Sirât, also continuing EPiC, Pillion, Father Mother Sister Brother, Marty Supreme, and Hamnet. Pianist Bruce Vogt accompanies Buster Keaton in "The Scarecrow" and Lilian Gish in The Wind on Sunday; The Holdovers plays Thursday.
  
  The Dedham Community Theatre opens independent comedy For Worse, with writer/director Amy Landecker as a new divorcee who attends a wedding with a much younger date, with EPiC on the other screen.
  
  Cinema Salem has all of the Oscar Shorts (though not every one every day), Scream 7, Hoppers and The Bride! from Friday to Monday. The Wizard of Oz is the Wednesday Classic (with Weirdo Wednesday down the hall).

I am currently on vacation in Houston to watch the World Baseball Classic and, folks, this does not seem like a great city for both getting to a movie if there's no ballgame in the evening and getting back to the hotel afterward (there are buses but the sidewalk infrastructure is lacking). So, don't expect many updates to my Letterboxd page, although I will be making up for lost time soon after!