Next Week in Tickets: Films playing Boston 5 June 2026 - 11 June 2026

Hey, could the next huge hit from some 20-something YouTuber be a romantic comedy or a heist movie or something featuring a great young martial artist? I like horror well enough, but let's switch it up!

• I guess it's time to see if anyone really wants a Masters of the Universe movie; the one we're getting has Nicholas Galitzine as He-Man, Jared Leto as Skeletor, some half-decent folks picking up paychecks, and maybe a little hope offered by director Travis Knight, who in addition to Kubo and the Two Strings also made Bumblebee, aka the good Transformers movie. It's at the Capitol, Fresh Pond, Boston Common (including Imax Laser & Dolby Cinema), Causeway Street, Kendall Square, the Seaport, South Bay (including Imax Xenon & Dolby Cinema), Assembly Row (including Imax Laser & Dolby Cinema), Arsenal Yards (including CWX), and Chestnut Hill.
  
  IFFBoston feature Power Ballad stars Paul Rudd as a wedding singer who sees the fading boy-band member played by Nick Jonas make his song a hit and goes a bit off the handle, with director John Carney clearly a specialist in inspiring musical stories. It's at West Newton, Dedham Community Theatre, Boston Common, Causeway Street, Kendall Square, the Seaport, South Bay, Assembly Row, and Arsenal Yards. Another IFFBoston alum, Carolina Caroline, opens in limited showtimes at Boston Common; it follows Samara Weaving & Kyle Gallner on a crime spree across the South.
  
  The Wayans Brothers are once again running the Scary Movie show, with movie #6 doing the number-eschewing thing and bringing back Anna Faris, Regina Hall, and others to parody recent horror movies. It's at Fresh Pond, CinemaSalem, Boston Common (including Dolby Cinema & XL), Causeway Street (including XL), Kendall Square, the Seaport, South Bay (including Dolby Cinema), Assembly Row (including Dolby Cinema), Arsenal Yards, and Chestnut Hill.
  
  The Amazing Digital Circus: The Last Act gets a run at Fresh Pond, Boston Common, Causeway Street, South Bay, and Assembly Row.
  
  Boston Common starts a series of Pride matinees with Milk playing at 4pm daily; The Birdcage has anniversary shows at Boston Common on Sunday & Wednesday. Assembly Row will be showing World Cup matches on the big screen starting Thursday.
• Apple Fresh Pond opens Hindi-language romantic comedy Hai Jawani Toh Ishq Hona Hai, Hindi-language crime drama Bandar, and Tamil-language dark comedy Parimala and Co. Malayalam-language comedy Mollywood Times plays Friday & Saturday, while Marathi-language drama Deool Band 2 plays Sunday. Telugu-language sports drama Peddi continues at Fresh Pond & Boston Common.
  
  Hong Kong animated film Another World opens for pretty limited showtimes at Boston Common; it follows a spirit guide in the afterlife whose latest charge carries enough anger to reincarnate as a monster.
• The New England Aquarium adds "Ocean Dreams" to their their Imax film rotation starting on Sunday.
• The Coolidge Corner Theatre continues Bleak Week with Time of the Wolf at 9:15pm Friday and a 35mm print of Elephant at midnight; animated films It's Such a Beautiful Day and Grave of the Fireflies on Saturday afternoon with a 35mm print of A History of Violence at midnight; and Béla Tarr's 539-minute magnum opus Sátántangó on Sunday.
  
  After that, Monday's Big Screen Classic is a 35mm print of Set It Off with a pre-film seminar by Mikal J. Gaines, and then they start the Spielberg X Nolan series with a 35mm print of Close Encounters of the Third Kind on Tuesday and a 70mm print of Interstellar on Wednesday (evening sold out, but there's a matinee). Thursday also has a (sold-out) big screen classic of Orlando and Sugar & Spice for the Cult Classic afterward, both on 35mm film.
• The Brattle Theatre hosts the Community Art Center's 29th annual Do It Your Damn Self National Film Festival on Friday night, before beginning their run of The Last One for the Road, an Italian indie road trip story running through Monday.
  
  They also celebrate Prince's birthday with Sign 'o' the Times (35mm) and Purple Rain on Saturday & Sunday, and have a craft-along show of The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert on Monday evening. After that, they've got a "Jim Jarmusch x3" series, with Mystery Train (35mm) Monday & Wednesday, Father Mother Sister Brother from Tuesday to Thursday, and Night on Earth Tuesday & Thursday.
• The Capitol Theatre has Field of Dreams for Friday's "Play Ball!" show. One Wednesday they have a mystery 16mm "Celluloid Confidential" movie.
  
  The Somerville Theatre starts the summer's Midnight Specials on Saturday with a 35mm print of Carrie. Monday's Jodie & Kurt show is Panic Room & Backdraft, with the latter on 35mm.
• The Seaport Alamo starts a Kids' Camp series with matinee screenings of Matilda Friday/Monday/Tuesday/Wednesday (and maybe Thursday). The original Hideo Nakata Ringu plays Friday night, Brian De Palma's Sisters on Saturday night, 30th Anniversary shows of Trainspotting on Sunday, a preview screening of Girls Like Girls with livestreamed Q&A from director Hayley Kiyoki on Monday, an afternoon show of Cave of Forgotten Dreams (apparently 2D) on Tuesday, with Kiyoshi Kurosawa's "Chime" & Serpent's Path the "Terror Tuesday" show later, and a Showgirls Movie Party on Wednesday.
• Landmark Kendall Square has But I'm a Cheerleader for the Pride feature on Tuesday and Saving Private Ryan for "Saving Matt Damon" on Wednesday.
• The Regent Theatre has beat poetry documentary Fugs Film! on Wednesday evening, featuring a live Q&A with director Chuck Smith, and another documentary, Roads of Fire, including a Q&A from director Nathaniel Lezra.
• The Museum of Science has Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu on the Omni screen Friday & Saturday evenings.
• The Lexington Venue closed Monday & Tuesday and shows Pressure, The Devil Wears Prada 2, and The Sheep Detectives on the other days.
  
  The West Newton Cinema opens Power Ballad, Tuner, and Pressure, keeping Backrooms, Silent Friend, The Sheep Detectives, and Project Hail Mary are held over. Do the Right Thing plays Saturday, with a WIP presentation of program manager Tim Leong's Summerville afterward; Casablanca plays Thursday fo Ty Burr's movie club. They also host Lost Land, which follows Rohingya refugees on a perilous trek to Malaysia, for Belmont World Film with lawyer Jacqueline Bhabha as the pre-film speaker.
  
  The Dedham Community Theatre adds Power Ballad to Tuner.
  
  Cinema Salem plays Scary Movie, Backrooms, Obsession, and The Sheep Detectives from Friday to Monday. They have an encore presentation of Rear Window on Saturday with post-film discussion. Another starring Grace Kelly, The Country Girl, is the Wednesday Classic with Weirdo Wednesday down the hall, and then on Thursday they have a "Food in Film" presentation of Tampopo.
  
  The AMC at the Liberty Tree Mall in Danvers has an English dub of German animated family film The Last Whale Singer

Man, it would be kind of cool if there were more interesting alternatives to Masters of the Universe, so I'll probably catch up with Obsession and the Trainspotting restoration, on top of Another World and some rep. Follow my Letterboxd page for updates!