Next Week in Tickets: Films playing Boston 26 June 2026 - 2 July 2026

There's a big-studio franchise movie clocking in at under two hours this weekend. Is that allowed?

• Seriously, Supergirl runs 108 pretty-decent minutes, adapting Woman of Tomorrow in less-idiosyncratic but still entertaining fashion, with Milly Aycox strong as the Girl of Steel. It's at the Capitol, Fresh Pond, the Museum of Science (Omnimax Friday/Saturday), Jordan's Furniture (Imax 2D Friday-Sunday), West Newton, CinemaSalem, Boston Common (including Imax Laser 2D & Dolby Cinema 2D & XL 2D & RealD 3D), Causeway Street (including XL 2D & RealD 3D), Kendall Square, the Seaport (including Dolby Atmos), 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.
  
  The other big opening is Jackass: Best and Last, which promises to be the last time these guys will abuse their bodies like this after 25 years, and pads it out with some classic gags to reach 90 minutes. It's at Fresh Pond, Boston Common, Causeway Street, Kendall Square, the Seaport, South Bay, Assembly Row, and Arsenal Yards.
  
  Rod Lurie directs war movie Lucky Strike starring Scott Eastwood as a grunt trapped behind enemy lines during the Battle of the Bulge, with Colin Hanks as his commanding officer for more second-generation casting. It's at Boston Common, Causeway Street, and Assembly Row.
  
  Couture stars Angelina Jolie as an American filmmaker documenting Fashion Week in Paris; writer/director Alice Winocour has made a number of other interesting films, including Proxima.
  
  Minions & Monsters gets a jump start on the holiday weekend, opening at Fresh Pond, the Capitol, the Lexington Venue, West Newton, Boston Common (including Imax Laser 2D & Dolby Cinema 2D & XL 2D & RealD 3D & Spanish dub), Causeway Street (including XL 2D & 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 on Wednesday.
  
  Music doc Gregg Allman: The Music of My Soul plays Boston Common on Sunday. There are secret screenings Monday at Boston Common, Causeway Street, Kendall Square, The Seaport, South Bay, and Assembly Row; Minions & Monsters plays Early Access shows Monday at Boston Common (Dolby Cinema), South Bay (Dolby Cinema), Assembly Row (Dolby Cinema), and Chestnut Hill. Assembly Row has the Telemundo world cup feeds. Boston Common has a matinee double feature of both The Devil Wears Prada films daily from Friday to Tuesday; To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar plays afternoon Pride shows at Boston Common; Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby plays 20th anniversary shows at Boston Common Sunday/Tuesday/Wednesday. David plays matinees at South Bay on Monday & Wednesday.
• Apple Fresh Pond opens Hindi-language action-comedy Welcome to the Jungle (also at Boston Common) and Tamil-language comedy Con City, with Mirathi-language horror comedy Tumbadchi Manjula playing Sunday afternoon. Held over are Telugu-language action movie Maa Inti Bangaaram, Hindi language romantic comedy Cocktail 2 (also at Boston Common), and Hindi-language Partition drama Main Vaapas Aaunga.
  
  Saudi/Egyptian action movie 7 Dogs opens at Boston Common, mostly off-hour matinees, with an Interpol agent teaming up with a gangster to catch a terrorist in Riyadh. Most of the cast is Egyptian (MENA's largest movie industry) but the money is Saudi, which buys them not just the directors of the last two Bad Boys movies but a number of Western and Bollywood stars in (presumably) smaller roles).
  
  Anime BLEACH: Thousand-Year Blood War - The Calamity, a big event in the current series, plays Boston Common, subtitled & dubbed.
• The Capitol Theatre holds over Saudi thriller Unidentified through Tuesday, and it's weird there are two Saudi films to choose from, right? They didn't even have movie theaters a few years back! Bull Durham is the Friday "Play Ball!" movie. The monthly Disasterpiece Theater event is Monday, and documentary Coroner to the Stars plays Tuesday, with Globe film critic Odie Henderson discussing the film with director Ben Hethcoat.
  
  The Somerville Theatre plays the original Django for Saturday's Midnight Special. Monday's Jodie & Kurt double feature is the sci-fi night, with Contact & Stargate on 35mm film. Documentary Down by the Riverside plays Wednesday & Thursday, with directors Jodie Childers & Dan Messina on hand for a Q&A the first night.
• After The Brattle Theatre plays Mare's Nest every day this week, featuring Moon Guo-Barker as a child wandering a world seemingly free of adults.
  
  They also celebrate Mel Brooks's 100th! (hopefully not jinxing his making it to Monday) with films he directed and produced, including The Elephant Man (Friday), Young Frankenstein (Saturday & Sunday), History of the World: Part I (Saturday), The Fly (35mm Saturday/Sunday), The Producers (Sunday), Spaceballs (Monday). Tuesday's Free Elements of Cinema screening is The Friends of Eddie Coyle, often called the quintessential Boston Movie, at least of its era. On Wednesday, they start a "National Treasures" series with Nic Cage in National Treasure, with a 35mm double feature of Mission: Impossible & Charlie's Angels '00 on Thursday, with the series continuing through the 8th and including the annual Jaws shows.
• The Coolidge Corner Theatre keeps Disclosure Day in 70mm on the main screen, though one show Sunday is digital and thus regular matinee prices. The wrap clown month with midnight shows of House of 1000 Corpses (Friday) and It: Chapter 2 (Saturday), with Swedish rock doc Jawbreaker also playing midnight Saturday.
  
  Sunday morning starts with Geothe-Institut presentation Red Stars Upon the Field, with The Wiz for Monday's Big Screen Classic, Catch Me If You Can on 35mm for Spielberg Tuesday, The Dark Knight on 35mm for Nolan Wednesday (the 7pm screening is sold out, but a 3:30pm show has been put on), and Coming to America plays Thursday for another Big Screen Classic.
• As happened with the Tohoscope selection last month, The Seaport Alamo scheduled one screening of Godzilla vs. Biollante on little screen #3, sold it out, and now has matinees Friday/Saturday/Sunday/Monday/Wednesday. They also show BUFF selection Camp (which, uh, I was not a fan of) Friday & Thursday, De Palma's Blow Out Saturday/Sunday/Wednesday, and Australian LGBT crime drama Body Blow on Tuesday.
• RoxFIlm has their closing night films, If I Go Will They Miss Me?, preceded by short "Cycles", and Montmartre on Friday night at The Museum of Fine Arts. Friday also has their online portion start, continuing throughout the week.
• Landmark Kendall Square is down to seven screens right now, with screens 1 & 2 closed for construction that will merge them into one deluxe screen, and the concession offerings seem a bit limited as they begin their renovations. Anyway, Moonlight is the Pride feature on Tuesday.
• Joe's Free Films shows free outdoor screenings of SpongeBob: Search for SquarePants in Kenmore Square's Urban Park Roof Garden on Saturday and She's the Man at TimeOut Market on Monday.
• In addition to Supergirl on the Omni screen at The Museum of Science Friday & Saturday; tickets are on sale for The Odyssey in a few and RSVPs are open for documentary Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story Saturday afternoon.
• The Lexington Venue is open all week but Mpnday with Disclosure Day (through Tuesday) and Toy Story 5, with Minions & Monsters coming Wednesday. They also have Maine-set mockumentary Canoe Dig It? on Friday, a free screening of vintage Japanese monster movie Daimajin on Sunday morning, and comedy Influenced on Tuesday & Thursday evenings.
  
  The West Newton Cinema opens Supergirl and Our Hero, Balthazar, with the latter getting a "Behind the Screen" show on Sunday. Sticking around are Girls Like Girls, Toy Story 5, Disclosure Day, Pressure, and The Sheep Detectives. Minions & Monsters opens Wednesday.
  
  The Dedham Community Theatre picks up O Horizon, starring Maria Bakalova as a scientist who discovers a way to speak to her recently-deceased father (David Strathairn), and Pressure, with Tuner sticking around.
  
  Cinema Salem plays Supergirl (with a dog-friendly show on Saturday), Disclosure Day, Girls Like Girls, and Toy Story 5 from Friday to Monday. Eraserhead is the Friday Night Light show, the Teseracte Players dance in front of Rocky Horror on Saturday (Full Body, as always, at Boston Common). The Wednesday Classic is my Letterboxd page.