Next Week in Tickets: Films playing Boston 10 July 2026 - 16 July 2026

Always the way of it - really scraping to find something to go to some days, then more than you can watch are on the schedule, but also, a thing theaters have been showing previews for is not coming out unless you want to spend twice as much time traveling to see it as watching it.

• Just a couple years after the original animated film (itself only ten years old) had a pretty successful sequel, Disney gives us a live-action Moana, with Dwayne Johnson returning as Maui but a mostly new cast otherwise. It's at the Capitol, Fresh Pond (including 3D), Jordan's Furniture (Imax 2D Friday-Sunday), West Newton, Boston Common (including Imax Laser 2D & Dolby Cinema 2D & RealD 3D), 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.
  
  With Evil Dead Burn, there are officially as many second-cycle Evil Dead movies there were in the original series, with Sam Raimi, Rob Tapert, and Bruce Campbell this time entrusting their baby to French filmmaker Sébastien Vanicek, whose Infested shows the right vibe for having the Necronomicon completely ruin a weekend with one's late husband's family. Honestly, it's kind of cool that they're using this thing identified with them to elevate up-and-comers like this. The movie opens at Fresh Pond, CinemaSalem, Boston Common (including XL & Dolby Cinema), Causeway Street, the Seaport, South Bay (including Dolby Cinema), Assembly Row (including Dolby Cinema), and Arsenal Yards.
  
  Also opening is Gail Daughtry and the Celebrity Sex Pass, featuring Zoey Deutch as a small-town girl who feels she needs to even the scales when her fiancé has sex with his celebrity crush and so goes to Hollywood looking for John Hamm. It's the latest from the writing team of director David Wain and co-star Ken Marino, playing the Somerville, the Coolidge, Dedham Community Theatre, Boston Common, Kendall Square, and the Seaport.
  
  The Night Nurse opening at Boston Common, the Seaport is not the Barbara Stanwyck classic, but a thriller involving a retirement home caregiver who becomes enmeshed as it is targeted by phone scammers.
  
  IFFBoston Closing film The Invite adds the Somerville, West Newton, Dedham Community Theatre, Causeway Street, Kendall Square, the Seaport, South Bay, Assembly Row, and Chestnut Hill to the Coolidge and Boston Common.
  
  South Bay has matinees of The Lego Movie Monday & Wednesday.
• IFFBoston selection Rose of Nevada opens atThe Coolidge Corner Theatre; I was pretty fond of this shot-on-16mm oddity from the director of Enys Men about a crew (George MacKay, Callum Turner, Francis Magee) who sign on to work a fishing boat that drifts into port after vanishing years earlier and find themselves returning to the time it vanished, and apparently the lives of the original crew.
  
  Alien invasion midnights this weekend are Fire in the Sky on 35mm film Friday and Invasion of the Saucer Men Saturday. The Slamdance Film Festival presents a selection of this year's films: Brailled It and Danny Is My Boyfriend on Sunday. There's also a July series celebrating Marylin Monroe's centennial, with Some Like It Hot Sunday afternoon. Other Special Screenings include documentary Ask E. Jean with director Ivy Meeropol on hand Monday; A Big Screen Classic presentation of The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance on Monday; the conclusion of "Spielberg X Nolan" with Minority Report on 35mm film Tuesday and Tenet on 70mm Wednesday; and the 70mm print of The Odyssey arriving Thursday.
• South Asian movies at Apple Fresh Pond and elsewhere include Lenin (also at Boston Common), a Tamil-language film apparently starring Akhil Akkineni as the Russian revolutionary; Tamil-language coming-of-age comedy Idhayam Murali; Hindi-language comedy Dhamaal 4, the latest in a series about treasure-hunting con artists; and Malayalam-language crime movie I, Nobody. Hind-language action/adventure Alpha continues at Boston Common.
  
  Chinese war movie Crossing features Liu Ye as Mao Zedong with Andrew Lau Wai-Keung directing the story of Mao's four crossings of the Chishui River. It opens at Boston Common, Causeway Street.
  
  Korean thriller The Eyes (a remake of Spanish-language film Julia's Eyes) follows a woman losing her sight trying who discovers her blind sister hung in their basement and seeks to prove it was a murder despite the police being convinced it's a suicide. It plays Boston Common.
  
  The Studio Ghibli film at the 'plexes this weekend is My Neighbor Totoro, playing Assembly Row, Boston Common on Saturday/Sunday/Wednesday (dubbed) and Monday/Tuesday (subtitled).
• After The Brattle Theatre starts the weekend with a 35mm print of Michael Caine in the original 1966 Alfie for the Friday film matinee, before paying tribute to Bow-Sim Mark, a martial arts master who started her Boston academy 50 years ago, by playing three films starring her son Donnie Yen: Drunken Tai Chi on 35mm film Friday evening and Saat Po Lang (aka Kill Zone) on Saturday, with John Wick: Chapter 4 as the second half of the double feature both nights. The weekend also features several Chinese films presented by STArt Film Studios - Living the Land and As the Water Flows on Saturday and Fly Me to the Moon on Sunday, all with pre-recorded introductions and Q&As.
  
  On Sunday, they start The Stanton Rule: A Harry Dean Stanton Centennial with a double feature of Cool Hand Luke & Ride in the Whirlwind, following that up with Repo Man on 35mm Monday/Tuesday/Wednesday, Cisco Pike on 35mm Tuesday, UFOria Wednesday (35mm double feature with Repo Man), and Lucky on Thursday. There's also an open-crafting show of La La Land on Monday evening and the latest selection of local GRRL HAUS CINEMA shorts on Thursday.
• The Capitol Theatre has Bubsy Berkley's Take Me Out to the Ball Game, starring Gene Kelly, Frank Sinatra, and Esther Williams, for "Play Ball!" on Friday.
  
  The Somerville Theatre seems to be squeezing a little extra rep in before The Odyssey's 70mm print settles down in the main screen on Thursday: Alien 3 plays in 35mm Friday night, while Saturday closes out Kurt & Jodie with The Hateful Eight on 70mm & Carnage on 35mm, before Frankenhooker plays to complement f GASH's Villains Ball up in the Crystal Ballroom, and then Terminator 2: Judgment Day in 35mm for the midnight special! Documentary Italian Wannabe is listed for Monday.
• The Museum of Fine Arts has The Christophers for an "Art on Fim" show on Friday evening.
• The Seaport Alamo has John Boorman's Excalibur Monday & Tuesday, a Jurassic Park movie party Monday, The Faculty on Tuesday, Baahubali: The Epic, Carlito's Way, and BUFF selection Buffet Infinity (with short "Man Eating Pussy") on Wednesday. Separate admission on those three, though it'd be a heck of a day at the movies if it lined up better.
• Landmark Kendall Square has E.T. on Tuesday for the Big Screen/Amblin summer movie and Batman Begins on Wednesday for Christopher Nolan Wednesdays (inspired by the Coolidge? Who can say, it's not a hard to series to come up with!).
• There's a pretty full slate of outdoor screenings this week, with Joe's Free Films and others showing Fantastic Mr. Fox at the MIT Open Space and Hamilton at the Hatch Shell on Friday; How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days at TimeOut Market on Monday; Babe at the Somerville Library on Tuesday; Speed at the Allston Speedway on Wednesday; and School of Rock at Lincoln Park in Somerville on Thursday.
• Supergirl plays its last shows on the Omni screen at The Museum of Science on Friday & Saturday, with The Odyssey opening next week. There's also a special screening of documentary #SheBelongs on Thursday, and the animated How to Train Your Dragon gets a free show on the 25th as part of Disability Pride month.
• The Lexington Venue is open all week but Mpnday with Blue Heron (which played the Coolidge a couple months back), Tuner, and Minions & Monsters. Documentary Lightworkers has a free screening on Wednesday and the "Just a Minute" Short Festival plays for free on Thursday.
  
  The West Newton Cinema opens Moana and The Invite, holding over Time and Water, Minions & Monsters, Toy Story 5, Disclosure Day, Pressure, and The Sheep Detectives. There's a sing-along show of Grease on Sunday.
  
  The Dedham Community Theatre has Gail Daughtry, The Invite, and Tuner this week.
  
  Cinema Salem plays Evil Dead Burn, Leviticus, Minions & Monsters, and Toy Story 5 from Friday to Monday. The Friday Night Light Show is Tank Girl; Some Like It Hot plays with a post-film chat on Saturday. The Wednesday Classic is Gone with the Wind, with Weirdo Wednesday next door, and on Thursday they have Four Letters of Love, the opening night selection of the Salem Irish Film Festival.
  
  The Isolate Thief plays out at the Liberty Tree Mall in Davers, with Mackenzie Foy manning a Civil War-era outpost and having to outwit gold-seeking outlaws led by Sean Bean; Odeya Rush and Joe Pantoliano are also in the cast.

So, huh, there should be time to get from The Hateful Eight to Saat Po Lang on Saturday, even with introductions and intermissions, but do I want to chance it? Anyway, still want to check out both the Donnie Yens, Evil Dead Burn, Minority Report, The Eyes, and Toy Story 5; probably won't be able to squeeze Crossing in before heading to Montreal for Fantasia on Wednesday. That, of course, will keep my Letterboxd page busy!