Next Week in Tickets: Films playing Boston 27 March 2026 - 2 April 2026

It's one of those weird post-blockbuster weeks with a bunch of docs and a lot of random-ish stuff at Boston Common!

• Hey, the guy who made Why Don't You Just Die?, Kirill Sokolov, has his first English language feature, They Will Kill You. It stars Zazie Beetz as a young woman who gets a job as a housekeeper in an exclusive building, room and board included. What she doesn't know is that she's meant to be a sacrifice to some demon they worship, but what they don't know is that she's just out of prison, where she learned all sorts of martial arts. It's playing Fresh Pond, Boston Common, Causeway Street, the Seaport, South Bay, and Assembly Row.
  
  As mentioned up top, two big-ish docs open this week. The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist has filmmakers Daniel Roher & Charlie Tyrell interviewing a whole bunch of people, although the title makes it sound like they're more worried about Terminator 2 than Billion Dollar Brain. It's at the Coolidge, the Capitol, the Lexington Venue, West Newton, Causeway Street, Kendall Square, the Seaport, and Assembly Row. The other is Marc by Sofia, with director Sofia Coppola doing a close-up profile of fashion designer Marc Jacobs. That's at the Coolidge, the Capitol, West Newton, Boston Common, and Kendall Square.
  
  Forbidden Fruits opens at Boston Common, Causeway Street, the Seaport, and South Bay, featuring Lili Reinhart, Victoria Pedretty, and Alexandra Shipp as three witches working retail, with new co-worker/coven member Lola Tung looking to raise the bar.
  
  Comedy She Dances features co-writer Steve Zahn as a divorced dad chaperoning his daughter (real-life daughter Audrey) at a competition, with Ethan Hawke, Rosemarie DeWitt, and Sonequa Martin-Green also in the cast. It's at Boston Common. So is New Zealand comedy Holy Days, featuring Miriam Margolyes, Jacki Weaver, and Judy Davis as three eccentric nuns in a stolen car taking in a lost boy; it plays mostly/all matinees.
  
  There are two anniversary re-releases this week, with Stand by Me at Boston Common (Friday to Wednesday) and the Seaport (Friday/Saturday/Tuesday). The Mummy Returns is at Boston Common (Friday to Tuesday), the Seaport (Saturday/Monday), and Arsenal Yards (Saturday-Tuesday).
  
  On Wednesday, The Super Mario Galaxy Movie movie opens all over the place, including the Capitol, Fresh Pond (including 3D), Jordan's Furniture (opening in Imax Thursday), West Newton, Boston Common (including Imax Laser 2D & Dolby Cinema & XL & RealD 3D & Spanish), Causeway Street (including RealD 3D), Kendall Square, South Bay (including Imax Xenon 2D & Dolby Cinema & RealD 3D), the Seaport (including Dolby Atmos), Assembly Row (including Imax Laser 2D & Dolby Cinema & RealD 3D), Arsenal Yards (including CWX), Chestnut Hill - many of which have old-school 12am screenings rather than just opening mid-afternoon on Tuesday!
  
  "Superpower Dogs" plays in Imax 3D at Boston Common Saturday morning (as well as hanging around the Museum of Science). Concert film Bring Me the Horizon: L.I.V.E. in São Paulo plays Saturday afternoon at Boston Common. The 1959 Ben-Hur plays Boston Common Sunday/Wednesday/Thursday. There's a mystery (horror) preview at Boston Common, Causeway Street, South Bay, and Assembly Row on Monday.
• Alpha is the new film from Julia Ducournau, with Mélissa Boros as a French tween whose family begins to spiral after she gets a tattoo; given that she made Raw and Titane, I'm guessing it's not just her mother being uncomfortable with her independence. It's at Landmark Kendall Square, Boston Common, and the Seaport.
  
  Kendall Square starts having two shows of its rep movies, so the Robert Pattinson Filmmaker Focus for April kicks with Twilight on Sunday and Wednesday.
• Sylvain Chomet's first animated film in a decade, A Magnificent Life (aka Marcel et Monsieur Pagnol) opens at The Somerville Theatre and Boston Common.
  
  The Somerville also has a live event in the big room on Saturday, but movies as well: There's the "Mellow Climbing" outdoor films package on Friday, a 35mm print of Buster Keaton in The Cameraman with Jeff Rapsis on the organ for "Silents Please!" Sunday afternoon, screenings of documentary The Tony Millionaire Show (whose subject was very reluctant!) on Monday & Tuesday, The Sandlot for "Feel Good Films" on Wednesday, and Skweezy Jibbs Makes a Movie, with Skweezy in person, on Thursday.
  
  The Capitol Theatre opens The Mountain, a New Zealand film about a Maori girl battling cancer who aims to climb Taranaki Maunga with two new friends (no show Saturday, afternoons only Monday & Wednesday). Marx Brothers movie The Cocoanuts is the Capitol Classic on Wednesday. The monthly Disasterpiece Theater night is Monday.
• Oh, cool, Mirrors No. 3, the new Christian Petzold film that Goethe-Institut played on Sunday is getting a regular opening at The Coolidge Corner Theatre, with Paula Beer as a woman who survives a car crash and becomes attached to the family that took her in.
  
  They've still got the 70mm print of Project Hail Mary on screen 1, except Sunday when the sold-out Lord of the Rings marathon is there (tickets still available for next week). Midnight shows this weekend feature the Takashi Miike flicks that first put him on the radar for many of us - Ichi the Killer on Friday and Audition on Saturday. On Monday, they've got a "Sound of Silents" show with Jeff Rapsis accompanying Charlie Chaplin's The Kid; Tuesday wraps the Mira Nair series with The Namesake on 35mm film while Wednesday kicks off a Mel Brooks Month (ahead of his 100th birthday!) with The Producers. Wednesday also has "Calling the Shots" presentation Portrait of a Lady on Fire, while Thursday's Big Screen Classic is All That Jazz, with seminar by Andrea Meyer.
• Indian films opening at Apple Fresh Pond include Malayalam-language thriller Prathichaya (through Sunday), Telugu-language romance Band Melam, and Tamil-language romance Happy Raj (through Sunday). Kannada-language romance Love Mocktail 3 plays Saturday & Sunday mornings. Dhurandhar The Revenge continues at Fresh Pond, Boston Common, Causeway Street.
  
  Comedy special Jimmy O. Yang: Finally Home, with Yang returning to his native Hong Kong for the first time in the 21st Century, opens at Boston Common and Causeway Street.
  
  Thai romantic comedy Food Truck: Stolen Love… and Moo Deng continues at Boston Common (through Tuesday); Korean film The King's Warden shows pretty remarkable matinee staying power at Causeway Street (also through Tuesday).
• The Brattle Theatre has two art-house horror restorations this weekend, with Guillermo del Toro's Cronos playing Friday/Saturday/Sunday/Tuesay, and Michael Almereyda's Nadja playing Friday to Tuesday.
  
  On Saturday afternoon, Gerald Peary presents a double feature of Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein & The Boy with Green Hair, inspired by his new book A Reluctant Film Critic. On Sunday, RPM Fest presents "The Blue Rose of Forgetfullness" and six other short films by Lewis Klahr, with Klahr on-hand for a post-film Q&A. On Monday they have a free Elements of Cinema screening of Spirit of the Beehive, and then they celebrate April Fool's Day by pairing the new Liam Neeson The Naked Gun with Sylvester Stallone in Cobra (Wednesday) and Clint Eastwood in Dirty Harry (Thursday).
• The Harvard Film Archive has a weekend featuring four films by director Masahiro Shinoda ("Sixties Shinoda"): Pale Flower (introduced by Peter Grilli) Friday, Dry Lake (aka Youth in Fury) Friday & Sunday, Double Suicide Saturday, and Punishment Island on Saturday. Monday's Kubrick screening of Barry Lyndon is sold out, but seats may be available at showtime if there are no-shows. Another weekend where everything is on 35mm film.
• The Seaport Alamo picks up Andre Is a Idiot for one show a day Friday to Monday, (looks four-walled with the front row reserved/empty every day). Episodes 16-18 of Twin Peaks: The Return play Saturday, and a marathon of the Extended Editions of Lord of the Rings on Sunday.
• The Museum of Fine Arts has the dubbed Arco on Friday night as part of "Global Cinema Now". Amrum. Boston Turkish Film Festival continues on Saturday with thriller IDEA (director Tayfun Pirselimoğlu there in person), preceded by shorts "Minus One" and "Garan".
• The Museum of Science seems to be sold out of all upcoming screenings of Project Hail Mary on the Omnimax screen, but has a free screening of Barbie Saturday afternoon for National Women's Month (registration required). They're closed Monday to Wednesday, including the Imax/4D screens.
• Boston Jewish Film has one more day of the Israeli Film Series at JCC Greater Boston in Newton, with "Wild Land" on Sunday afternoon and Pink Lady Sunday evening, both of which will have post-film discussion.
• Movies at MIT lists Monty Python and the Holy Grain as playing Wednesday; again, not sure if non-MIT folks are still welcome and if they want an email beforehand, since there seems to be no mailing list this semester.
• The Lexington Venue is open all week but Monday with EPiC, The AI Doc, and Mr. Nobody Against Putin (no show Wednesday). The Voice of Hind Rajab plays Saturday morning, as does Keeper of the Flame (free classic). Suburban Fury has matinees Saturday & Sunday, and the 2026 edition of the New York Cat Film Festival plays Wednesday.
  
  The West Newton Cinema opens Marc by Sofia, The AI Doc, and The Super Mario Galaxy Movie (on Wednesday), continuing Project Hail Mary, Sentimental Value, Hoppers, Pillion, and Hamnet. They will also be hosting the entirety of Belmont World Film's International Film Series, starting on Monday with Colors of Time on Monday, which splits between a girl searching for her mother in 1895 Paris and descendants who have never met who inherit her Normandy home in the present. There's a Normandy-inspired dinner available before the film, as well.
  
  The Dedham Community Theatre holds over Tow and opens The AI Doc.
  
  Cinema Salem plays Project Hail Mary, Ready or Not Here I Come, and Hoppers, from Friday to Monday. Drunken Master II is the Friday Night Light film, with Easter Parade for the Wednesday Classic (plus Weirdo Wednesday).
  
  In addition to the usual, the AMC at the Liberty Tree Mall in Danvers, they have comedy You're Dating a Narcissist!, with Marisa Tomei as a college professor who wrote a book with the film's title who has a complete freak-out when her daughter says she's engaged to a man she's only known for six weeks.

Might go for Pale Flower Friday night and see just how much more Shinoda I'm up for that weekend, before trying to catch They Will Kill You, She Dances, Alpha, Mirrors No. 3, and A Magnificent Life, maybe The Mountain and The Cameraman (which I feel like I've seen but can't find a log for). Haven't caught Project Hail Mary yet, either. It will probably be a downright nutty week for my Letterboxd page because that's a lot before Mario and The Drama eat screens!