Next Week in Tickets: Films playing Boston 17 April 2026 - 23 April 2026

Just living at IFFBoston this week, right?

• Independent FIlm Festival Boston is at the Brattle & Somerville through Tuesday - centerpieces include Tuner and Remake at the Somerville Friday & Saturday - before decamping to the Coolidge for two screenings of The Invite with star/director Olivia Wilde in person (35mm w/ Q&A downstairs, DCP with intro upstairs)..
• The big opening is Michael, an authorized biography of Michael Jackson with his nephew Jaafar in the title role plus Coleman Domingo & Nia Long as his parents. John Logan and Antoine Fuqua take checks for writing and directing a movie that is not only going to exclude the pedophilia accusations (and in fact, had to do reshoots for even getting near them). It's at the Capitol, Fresh Pond, The Embassy Cinema in Waltham, Jordan's Furniture (Imax Friday-Sunday), West Newton, CinemaSalem, Boston Common (including Imax Laser & Dolby Cinema & XL & Spanish subtitles), Causeway Street, Kendall Square, the Seaport (including Dolby Atmos), South Bay (including Dolby Cinema & Imax Xenon), Assembly Row (including Imax Laser & Dolby Cinema), Arsenal Yards (including CWX), and Chestnut Hill,
  
  Looks better to bet on a fictional musician, as Mother Mary has Anne Hathaway as the title character, a pop star reuniting with her longtime friend and costume designer (Michaela Coel) for a comeback, but the latter seems to believe there is something more sinister afoot on top of the difficult personal history. David Lowery writes and directs; it's at the Coolidge, Fresh Pond, Boston Common, Causeway Street, Kendall Square, the Seaport, South Bay, and Assembly Row.
  
  Jason Segel & Samara Weaving star in Over Your Dead Body, a remake of a Norwegian film where both members of a married couple discovers that their spouse intends to murder them, which could put a real crimp in their plans to murder their spouse. It's at Boston Common, Causeway Street, the Seaport, South Bay, and Assembly Row.
  
  Historical adventure Desert Warrior features Anthony Mackie as the title character, a bandit who winds up protecting a princess and her father fleeing Emperor Kisra (Ben Kingsley); it plays Boston Common. Also at Boston Common is Fuze, in which the attempts to defuse an unexploded WWII bomb in the middle of London serve as cover for a daylight heist.
  
  Ukrainian/Latvian drama Two Prosecutors tells the tale of a USSR prosecutor in 1937 who receives one of the usually-burned letters from political prisoners professing their innocence, following it as far as he can. It's at Boston Common.
  
  The new 4K remaster of Fight Club opens for a regular run at Boston Common (and Monday/Tuesday shows at the Seaport); Silence of the Lambs has anniversary shows at Boston Common on Sunday & Wednesday. The Saturday morning Imax 3D doc at Boston Common is "The Blue Angels". Monday secret previews at Boston Common, Causeway Street, South Bay, and Assembly Row. Music doc American Youngboy plays Boston Common on Saturday. Power to the People: John & Yoko Live in NYC, which reconfigures the two-screen presentation of their August 1972 concert into feature form, plays the Kendall and Boston Common on Wednesday. There are Early Access shows of Billie Eilish: Hit Me Hard and Soft at Boston Common and Assembly Row in Dolby Cinema 3D on Wednesday; ONE OK ROCK Detox Japan Tour plays Boston Common Thursday.
• The Coolidge Corner Theatre gets documentary Everyone Is Lying to You for Money, with Ben McKenzie examining the cryptocurrency boom and similar scammy industries. It's limited shows mostly on screen #4 (the 14-seat "Goldscreen'), but McKenzie will be on-hand for an introduction & discussion when it plays on the main screen Friday night.
  
  I Swear, a biography of Tourette's Syndrome sufferer/campaigner John Davidson, opens at the Coolidge, Fresh Pond, the Lexington Venue, West Newton, Dedham Community Theatre, Boston Common, and the Seaport.
  
  The Coolidge still has the 35mm bug on their listings forThe Drama although only has dates through last Sunday. Midnight shows at the Coolidge this weekend are the Abel Ferrera Body Snatchers on 35mm Friday and both the director's cut of Aliens and a free screening of The Day of the Triffidson Saturday. Goethe-Institut teams with The National Center for Jewish FIlm's 2026 Festival for The Last Spy on Sunday morning. The Mel Brooks series continues with Young Frankenstein (including Andy Miara seminar) on Sunday afternoon and the original 1967 The Producers that evening, with Spaceballs on 35mm film Tuesday. Monday's Science on Screen presentation is Requiem for a Dream with BU's Dr. Zachariou. Thursday offers two "Panorama" screenings of Steal This Story with subject Amy Goodman & director Tia Lessin on-hand for both (Q&A at 7pm; intro at 9:55pm)... and also a "Rewind!" show of The Wedding Singer,
• Landmark Kendall Square has Eagles of the Republic, the third of Swedish/MENA director Tarik Saleh's "Egyptian Movies", for one show a day through Tuesday; it stars Fares Fares and Egypt's most popular actor, pressured by people in power to star in a commissioned film by people in power.
  
  Keanu plays the Kendall Saturday & Tuesday; David Lowery's The Green Knight plays there Sunday & Wednesday.
• The week's new South Asian movies at Apple Fresh Pond include Hindi-language comedy Ginny Wedss Sunny 2, Nepali thriller Ram Naam Satya, and Malayalam-language romantic comedy Madhuvidhu (through Sunday). Hindi-language horror/comedy Bhooth Bangla continues at Fresh Pond,and Boston Common; Dhurandhar The Revenge continues at Fresh Pond.
  
  Vietnamese action movie Tai plays South Bay (early and late).
  
  After its Imax preview, remastered Ghibli classic Whisper of the Heart begins a run at Boston Common. Japanese horror film Exit 8 continues at the Coolidge, Boston Common, and Assembly Row
• The Capitol Theatre wraps the current "Capitol Classics" series with The Breakfast Club on Friday night and has the monthly Disasterpiece Theater event on Monday.
  
  The Somerville Theatre is full up with IFFBoston until Tuesday, so they've got a day or two to fill before new releases come. Wednesday features punk doc Pretty Ugly: The Story of the Lunachicks and the new edition of Spike and Mike's Animation Extravaganza (which is apparently in Robert Kirkman's hands now?).
• The Seaport Alamo has indie comedy Reveries: The Mind Prison late Friday, Terror of Mechagodzilla Saturday/Sunday/Wednesday; a Miss Congeniality movie party, Strange Journey: The Story of Rocky Horror with director Linus O'Brien in person, and Girl Internet Show: A Kati Kelli Mixtape on Saturday; Celine and Julie Go Boating on Monday; Boys Go to Jupiter and a preview of Is God Is with livestreamed Q&A on Tuesday; and Tomorrow Never Dies on Thursday.
• The Harvard Film Archive wraps the Béla Tarr/László Krasznahorkai series with Damnation on Friday and an all-day session of the 435-minute Sátántango on Saturday. There's also one last Masahiro Shinoda screening with the 35mm print of Assassination Friday night, and the Kubrick series ends with A.I.: Artificial Intelligence on 35mm Monday. Both the Saturday & Monday shows are sold out, but unclaimed tickets may be released at showtime.
• The Boston Asian American Film Festival presents two by director Alice Wu on Friday, with her on-hand for a Q&A following The Half of It at 7pm and will introduce Saving Face on 9:30pm. Both are at ArtsEmerson's Paramount Theater on Thursday. Both are free, with tickets first-come, first serve.
• The Regent Theatre has the "Mountains on Stage: Summer Edition" adventure film package on Tuesday and Jeff Rapsis accompanying The General for its 100th anniversary on Wednesday.
• The Brattle Theatre is all IFFBoston all the time until Tuesday, and then celebrates "Halfway to Halloween" with the restored The House with Laughing Windows on Wednesday, a free Elements of Cinema screening of Alejandro Jodorowsky's Santa Sangre on 35mm Thursday evening, and then Lucio Fulci's Lizard in a Woman's Skin later Thursday night.
• The Museum of Science has a sold-out show of The Wild Robot on the Omni screen Sunday evening to conclude Space Week.
• The Lexington Venue is open all week but Wednesday (though all matinees Monday to Thursday) with Lorne (no show Monday), I Swear, and Palestine '36. They play documentary Open Space: Life At Cambridge's Danehy Park at noon Saturday with director Federico Muchnik on hand for a Q&A
  
  The West Newton Cinema opens Michael and I Swear, holding over The Christophers, Fantasy Life, The Drama, The Super Mario Galaxy Movie, and Project Hail Mary. A pair of short films by Bestor Cram, "How Far Home: Veterans after Vietnam" and "Camouflage: Vietnamese Brush Strokes with History", play Saturday afternoon with Cram and others on hand for discussion; The Natural plays Sunday afternoon. The Belmont World Film presentation on Monday is French/Greenlandic film The Incredible Snow Woman, with an introduction by critic Erin Trahah.
  
  The Dedham Community Theatre has The Christophers and I Swear.
  
  Cinema Salem plays The Mummy, Project Hail Mary, Michael, and Super Mario from Friday to Monday. Godzilla vs Hedorah is the Friday Night Light show; there's a day-long Cinema Obscura Salem even with shorts, American Rickshaw, Frankenstein '80, God of Vampires and The New York Ripper, plus an unconnected screening of Rocky Horror with Teseracte Saturday night (Full Body, as usual, is at Boston Common). The Wednesday Classic is East of Eden, with Weirdo Wednesday down the hall, and Thursday they host a Craft & Swap night with a lights-up screening of the live-action Scooby Doo.
  
  The AMC at the Liberty Tree Mall in Danvers has horror movie Broken Bird, as well as Speed Racer for a week on regular screens after its Imax shows and Sam Raimi's original The Evil Dead on Friday night..

Obviously, I'm at IFFBoston straight through Wednesday, and then on Thursday we'll see if there's anything that fits into what is, these days, an unlikely category: Gone or hard to see next week but still showing on Thursday evening. I'll try to blog, but also update my Letterboxd page.