Next Week in Tickets: Films playing Boston 12 June 2026 - 17 June 2026

Last week, barely anything to see. This week, stuff's blocking each other!

• The clear big deal is Disclosure Day, a new science fiction adventure from Steven Spielberg and writer David Koepp, starring Josh O'Connor as a man who has discovered humanity is not alone and intends to get the word out to the entire world at once; it also features Emily Blunt, Colin Firth, Colman Domingo, and Eve Hewson, and some are saying it's among his best. It's at the Coolidge (70mm), the Somerville, Fresh Pond, Jordan's Furniture (Imax Friday-Saturday), West Newton, CinemaSalem, Boston Common (including Imax Laser & Dolby Cinema & XL), Causeway Street (including XL), Kendall Square, the Seaport (including Dolby Atmos), South Bay (including Imax Xenon & Dolby Cinema) Assembly Row (including Imax Laser & Dolby Cinema), Arsenal Yards (including CWX), and Chestnut Hill. The 8pm Friday night Imax screenings at Boston Common, South Bay, Assembly Row will feature a live-streamed introduction with Spielberg & Blunt.
  
  BUFF closer The Furious, in which two men searching for their missing wife and daughter fight their way through a phenomenal amount of human traffickers, opens at Fresh Pond and Boston Common. The action is amazing (and amazingly violent), culminating in a closing brawl that took 18 days of a six-week shoot.
  
  Also opening is Stop! That! Train!, with RuPaul as the President and most of the roles played by other drag queens, as stewardesses on a high-speed train face a natural disaster. Crazy how this is opening on a bunch of screens - including the Coolidge, Boston Common, Causeway Street, the Seaport, and South Bay - when this sort of thing supposedly makes mainstream America uncomfortable, huh?
  
  Call Me By Your Name has late-afternoon shows at Boston Common as the week's Pride selection; Amores perros has a new restoration at Boston Common Saturday & Monday. BTS World Tour Arirang will have "live viewings" at South Bay and Assembly Row on Saturday. Mystery previews play Boston Common, Causeway Street, South Bay, and Assembly Row on Monday; horror movie Leviticus has a non-mystery preview at Boston Common Tuesday. KPop Demon Hunters returns for sing-along shows at the Seaport (Monday/Tuesday/Wednesday), Arsenal Yards (Tuesday/Wednesday). Music doc Gregg Allman: The Music of My Soul plays the Coolidge and Boston Common on Wednesday. Assembly Row is showing a number of World Cup matches live, possibly the Spanish-language Telemundo broadcast.
• Landmark Kendall Square has Netflix film In the Hand of Dante before it hits the streamer, with Julian Schnabel's latest featuring Oscar Isaac in a dual role as Dante Alighieri and a present-day writer recruited to steal a copy of The Divine Comedy written in the poet's own hand. Heck of a supporting cast on it, too.
  
  Hedwig and the Angry Inch is the Pride feature on Tuesday, and Elysium is the week's "Saving Matt Damon" show on Wednesday.
• Apple Fresh Pond opens Hindi-language Partition drama Main Vaapas Aaunga (also at Boston Commo and, Causeway Street); Hindi-language thriller Bharat Bhhagya Viddhaata, featuring Kangana Ranaut as one of a group of nurses keeping patients safe during a terror attack; Hindi-language historical drama Governor: The Silent Saviour; and Telugu-language comedy/drama Sing Geetham. Telugu-language sports drama Peddi continues at Fresh Pond & Boston Common.
  
  Independent anime Jinsei, which follows a man through his 100 year life in idiosyncratic, hand-drawn form (with writer/director Ryuya Suzuki nearly a one-man crew), opens at Fresh Pond, Boston Common, the Seaport. Ponyo is the week's Studio Ghibli Fest selection, showing Saturday/Sunday/Wednesday (dubbed) and Monday/Tuesday (subtitled) at Boston Common and Assembly Row. There's a Crunchyroll Anime Sneak Peek at Boston Common, the Seaport, and Assembly Row on Monday.
  
  Hong Kong animated film Another World gets a second week of limited showtimes at Boston Common (it deservedly had a pretty good crowd when I saw it last week).
• Since the 70mm print of Disclosure Day has the main screen all week, The Coolidge Corner Theatre has a bit less rep than usual. Midnights for the rest of June are apparently creepy clowns, with It a bit early (11:30pm) on Friday and Blood Harvest on Saturday, plus the monthly Eraserhead. Monday's Big Screen Classic is Paper Moon on 35mm film, and Space Jam is the Thursday "Rewind!" show.
• After The Brattle Theatre's Friday Fim Matinee of Sandra Bernhard's Without You I'm Nothing, they host Noir City Boston, this year highlighting movies with a jazz bent, most introduced by the Film Noir Foundation's Foster HIrsch. The double features are Black Angel & Blues in the Night (both 35mm) on Friday; Anatomy of a Murder (35mm) & All Night Long Saturday afternoon; Gilda & To Have and Have Not (both 35mm) Saturday evening; The Man with the Golden Arm & A Man Called Adam Sunday afternoon; and The Yellow Canary & The Crimson Canary (35mm) Sunday evening. There's also a bonus screening of Sweet Smell of Success on Monday (without Hirsch).
  
  After that, they fill in the work week with Stop Making Sense on Tuesday and Richard Linklater's Before Trilogy: Sunrise on Tuesday/Wednesday/Thursday, Sunset Wednesday/Thursday, and Midnight on 35mm Thursday as the end of a triple feature.
• The Capitol Theatre has Eephus (which is delightful) for Friday's "Play Ball!" show; documentary HOPE: The Courageous Response in the Face of Adversity, which follows a young South Sudanese refugee, plays Thursday.
  
  The Somerville Theatre has a packed-enough schedule that Friday's Indie Spotlight, Rats! with directors Carl Fry & Maxwell Nalevansky, is playing in the Micro-Cinema. The centerpiece of the Kurt & Jodie series, a double feature of The Silence of the Lambs & The Thing, plays Saturay night, while Tombstone & Maverick play Monday, the latter on 35mm film. In between, the Saturday Midnight Special is Blue Velvet and Jeff Rapsis accompanies a 35mm print of silent cut-out animation The Adventures of Prince Achmed, a thoroughly unique take on Arabian Nights. The Thirsty Thursday show is From Dusk Till Dawn.
• The Seaport Alamo continues their Brian De Palma films with Dressed to Kill Friday night. Saturday features a But I'm a Cheerleader movie party, Agnes Varda's Le Bonheur, and The Graduate; Ingmar Bergman's Persona plays Sunday & Tuesday; a new 4K restoration of Boogie Nights plays Sunday/Monday/Wednesday/Thursday; and the Weird Wednesday show is The Devil Queen. There are advance screenings of The Invite on Tuesday and Leviticus on Wednesday
• RoxFIlm curates a screening of She Was There at the West End Museum on Saturday (free with RSVP) before opening the festival proper at The Museum of Fine Arts on Thursday with Transforming the Beautiful Game: The Clyde Best Story, preceded by short "The Bill Patterson Story", with a number of filmmakers from both films and Best himself on hand. The in-person festival continues through the 26th, at which point it will move online for another week
• The Regent Theatre has a second screening of beat poetry documentary Fugs Film! on Wednesday evening, maybe featuring featuring a live Q&A with director Chuck Smith (or maybe they just copied last week's listing).
• WBUR's CitySpace restarts their "Set in Boston" screening/conversation series with Girl, Interrupted on Thursday.
• Joe's Free Films shows a free outdoor screening of The Good Dinosaur at CambridgeSide on Friday and does not yet seem to be updated with the Coolidge presenting But I'm a Cheerleader at the Allston Speedway on Wednesday.
• The Museum of Science has Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu on the Omni screen Friday & Saturday evenings for the next two weeks, with tickets on sale for Supergirl and The Odyssey after that.
• The Lexington Venue is open all week with Disclosure Day, Pressure, and The Sheep Detectives. They also have free screenings of Maigret Sets a Trap Saturday morning, Maigret And The Saint-Fiacre Case Sunday morning, and documentary The Extraordianary Caterpillar, with guests from The Caterpillar Lab, on Tuesday evening.
  
  The West Newton Cinema opens Disclosure Day and one of my favorites from IFFBoston, Everyone to Kenmure Street, holding over Power Ballad, Tuner, Pressure, Backrooms, The Sheep Detectives, and Project Hail Mary. There's also The History of Sound with post-film panel discussion on Sunday and a rough-cut screening of documentary feature Nine on Wednesday, with proceeds going to complete the film. They also host the final film of Belmont World Film's refugee series, Promised Sky, with speaker Haleigh Burgon, who recently recorded oral histories in the film's Tunisian setting.
  
  The Dedham Community Theatre continues Power Ballad and Tuner.
  
  Cinema Salem plays Disclosure Day, Scary Movie, Backrooms, and Obsession from Friday to Monday. The Friday Night Light show is Austrian lesbian sci-fi adventure Flaming Ears, while Saturday features a "Food in Film" encore presentation of Tampopo, as well as the theatrical premiere of Clownspiracy paired with short film "Chompers" (with the latter's Chef Joe Gatto on hand for a Q&A). Sunday has a Whodunnit Watch Party, while the Wednesday Classic Grace Kelly month continues with To Catch a Thief, with Weirdo Wednesday down the hall, and Jiro Dreams of Sushi as that night's Food in Film movie, with another, Big Night, on Thursday.

So, my schedule is set with Noir City Friday to Sunday, Kurt & Jodie Monday, 70mm Disclosure Day Tuesday, a Red Sox game Wednesday, and, well, let's see if Jinsei or In the Hand of Dante continue for second weeks or even have evening shows to see what's up Thursday. Follow my Letterboxd page for updates!