Next Week in Tickets: Films playing Boston 3 July 2026 - 9 July 2026

Happy Fourth, if you're feeling it this year. If not, well, try not to overheat heading to the subway to get some air conditioning in the theaters!

• Minions & Monsters opened Wednesday and continues to play at Fresh Pond (including 3D), the Capitol, the Lexington Venue, Jordan's Furniture (Imax 2D Friday-Sunday), West Newton, CinemaSalem, 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.
  
  The release of Young Washington, which appears to follow the future President's service during the French & Indian War, seems aptly timed; it plays at Fresh Pond, Boston Common, Causeway Street, Kendall Square, South Bay, and Assembly Row.
  
  IFFBoston Closing film The Invite returns at the Coolidge and Boston Common, with director Olivia Wilde and Seth Rogen playing a couple whose marriage is on the rocks having a dinner party with their upstairs neighbors (Edward Norton & Penelope Cruz) on short notice. I liked it a lot; it's due to expand next week.
  
  Also opening is Maddie's Secret, with writer/director John Early playing the title character, a dishwasher whose cooking videos take off and dredge up secrets from her past. It's at the Coolidge, Boston Common, and the Seaport.
  
  The new one from The Last Exorcism director Daniel Tamm opens at Boston Common, with Lockbox featuring Carla Gugino trying to save her cousin from a demon; it also features Lou Taylor Pucci and Katharine Isabelle and is adapted from a podcast.
  
  Backrooms returns to/continues in theaters with an "Everything Must Go" addition which tacks future DVD extras on after the credits, playing at the Somerville, the Coolidge, Fresh Pond, Boston Common, Causeway Street, the Seaport, South Bay, Assembly Row, and Arsenal Yards.
  
  Citizen Kane has 85th anniversary shows at Boston Common on Sunday & Wednesday; South Bay has matinees of the live-action How to Train your Dragon Monday & Wednesday. Some of the Thursday night shows of the live-action Moana at Boston Common (Imax), Assembly Row (Imax) are "Fan Events". And, there's more Spanish-language World Cup action on the big screen at Assembly Row on Friday and F1 racing at Boston Common (Imax) on Sunday.
• The Coolidge Corner Theatre opens Romeria, a Spanish film starring Llúcia Garcia as a young woman who travel to a seaside town to learn about the father she never knew, in a film apparently based upon director Carla Simón's own life.
  
  Disclosure Day ends its 70mm run at the Coolidge with the Friday, Saturday, and Sunday evening shows, but will continue off a DCP. The Friday midnight show is Independence Day, they close early on the actual holiday. Monday's Big Screen Classic is American Psycho with a seminar by Coolidge Director of Education Sophie Blum beforehand, the Tuesday Spielberg is Saving Private Ryan on 35mm film, Wednesday's Nolan is Dunkirk on 70mm, and Thursday offers Summer of Soul for Cinema Jukebox at 7pm and Superbad as the 9:45pm Cult Classic.
• It's a fair-sized weekend for Indian cinema at Apple Fresh Pond and elsewhere, including two female-led Hindi action movies: Alpha (also at Boston Common), the latest in the YRF Spy Universe, stars Alia Bhatt and Sharvari as assassins trained from childhood; while Baby Do Die Do features Huma Qureshi as a deaf-mute killer spurred on by her late sister's voice. There's also Telugu-language adventure Nagabandham - The Secret Treasure; Telugu-language period horror Rao Bahadur (also at Causeway Street); and Tamil romantic comedy Gatta Kusthi 2. Hindi language romantic comedy Cocktail 2 continues at Boston Common.
  
  The new one from Mainland China director Feng Xiaogang, who was a pretty big deal for a while, is I Know Who You Are and features Lei Jiayin as a secret police officer maintaining a watch on his potentially subversive neighbor (Hu Ge) for 40 years, which I guess is heartwarming? It's at Boston Common and Causeway Street.
  
  Anime BLEACH: Thousand-Year Blood War - The Calamity continues at Boston Common, subtitled & dubbed.
• The Capitol Theatre has The Bad New Bears for "Play Ball!" on Friday.
  
  The Somerville Theatre has the last Monday Kurt & Jodie double feature with two gaslighting romances, Overboard & Sommersby, the former on 35mm film.
• After The Brattle Theatre is having some cooling issues, so they're closed Friday while folks fix the AC. That means the annual weekend of 35mm Jaws screenings starts Saturday, with shows through Monday Afternoon.
  
  Around that, they continue the "National Treasures" series with Nic Cage in National Treasure Saturday, Anaconda '97 on Sunday; Deep Impact and Mission: Impossible on 35mm Monday (separate admissions, it appears); a Denzel Washington Double Feature of Inside Man and Ricochet, the latter on 35mm, Tuesday; and Sister Act & Miss Congeniality on Wednesday. Thursday is the annual Trailer Treats show, a 35mm program of previews and shorts from the theater's archive.
• The Seaport Alamo screens documentary Jack Johnson: SURFILMUSIC on Friday, Saturday, Sunday, and Tuesday, with the latter one appearing sold out. The De Palma series continues with Scarface on Saturday, Sunday, Monday, and Wednesday.
• Landmark Kendall Square has Jaws on Tuesday for the Big Screen/Amblin summer (just in case you missed it at the Brattle) and Inception on Wednesday to start a Christopher Nolan (I guess in case the Coolidge sells out).
• WBUR's CitySpace shows Paranormal Activity on Wednesday, tying into the stage adaptation playing a pre-Broadway engagement at the Colonial Theatre, and featuring a conversation between the station's Robin Young and playwright Levi Holloway.
• Joe's Free Films shows free outdoor screenings of Hamilton at TimeOut Market on Monday and A Minecraft Movie at Lincoln Park in Somerville on Thursday.
• Supergirl only plays the Omni screen at The Museum of Science on Friday this weekend, but shows both Friday & Saturday next week before they switch over to The Odyssey.
• The Lexington Venue is open all week but Mpnday with Toy Story 5 andMinions & Monsters. There's a David Hockney "Exhibition on Screen" Thursday.
  
  The West Newton Cinema opens documentary Time and Water, which follows an Icelandic poet trying to preserve the memory of his homeland's glaciers. They also opened Minions & Monsters on Wednesday and keep Supergirl, Our Hero, Balthazar, Toy Story 5, Disclosure Day, Pressure, and The Sheep Detectives. There's a Ty Burr movie club show of The Friends of Eddie Coyle on Thursday.
  
  The Dedham Community Theatre keeps Pressure and Tuner this week.
  
  Cinema Salem plays Minions & Monsters, Supergirl, and Toy Story 5 from Friday to Monday. 20th Anniversary shows of The Departed play Sunday & Monday. The Wednesday Classic is Invasion of the Body Snatchers '56, with Weirdo Wednesday next door.

I'm hearing oddly good things about I Know Who You Are, so I'll try and catch that, Alpha, and Lockbox among the new releases, maybe catching up on Toy Story 5 and checking out Ricochet, Dunkirk, Scarface, and a couple others in rep. There's also Fantasia pre-gaming to do, as the new Fessenden is a crossover and I'm one Becky behind. Updates on my Letterboxd page.