Next Week in Tickets: Films playing Boston 18 September 2026 - 24 September 2026

Another week with more movies!

• The big opening is a reboot of Resident Evil from Barbarian & Weapons director Zach Creggar, apparently hewing closer to the games that the Milla Jovovich series did. It's at Fresh Pond, Jordan's Furniture (Imax Friday-Sunday), Boston Common (including Imax Laser & Dolby Cinema & Spanish subtitles), Causeway Street (including XL), Kendall Square, the Seaport, South Bay (including Imax Xenon & Dolby Cinema), Assembly Row (including Imax Laser & Dolby Cinema), Arsenal Yards, and Chestnut Hill.
  
  GKids continues to corner the market on animation with Shaun the Sheep: The Beast of Mossy Bottom, the latest mostly-pantomime stop motion film from Aardman which has Shaun doing some mad science to save the pumpkin patch and things going awry. It opens at the Capitol, the Coolidge, Fresh Pond, the Lexington Venue, West Newton, Boston Common, Causeway Street, and Chestnut Hill. Another kid-friendly film, Tiny Fugitives, opens at Boston Common, with Johnny Knoxville as a camp counselor trying to evict pre-teens trying to stay there after it closes for the season.
  
  The Weight is a depression-era western starring Ethan Hawke as a prisoner recruited to snuggle gold out of a mine by Russell Crowe's warden. It's at the Somerville, the Coolidge, West Newton, the Lexington Venue, Dedham Community Theatre, Boston Common, Causeway Street, the Seaport, and South Bay.
  
  Dark comedy The Musical stars Will Brill as a high-school music teacher who decides to make the annual musical an act of revenge against his ex-girlfriend's new lover; it plays Boston Common. Mena Massoud (who has had an odd career since the live-action Aladdin) plays the title character in Daniel and the Fiery Furnace, which adapts the story of Daniel and the exile to Babylon from the Torah. It also opens at Boston Common.
  
  The Transformers: The Movie gets a 40th Anniversary re-release at Boston Common and Causeway Street. Warner continues to try to make "Batman Day" happen with special comics and first the Tim Burton film playing the Somerville (70mm), Boston Common, South Bay, and Assembly Row Friday & Saturday, while The Lego Batman Movie plays in 3D at Boston Common, South Bay, and Assembly Row Saturday & Sunday; Mask of the Phantasm plays Boston Common and South Bay Saturday. Hispanic History Month screenings begin at Boston Common with Dora and the Lost City of Gold playing afternoons.
  
  There's an early access show of Forgotten Island at Boston Common, South Bay, Assembly Row, and Chestnut Hill Sunday afternoon, and mystery previews (PG, so maybe also that) at Boston Common, Causeway Street, South Bay, and Assembly Row Monday. Documentary Heaven in Stone and Glass plays Boston Common, South Bay, and Assembly Row Sunday and Wednesday. Kpop concert film NCT 127 5th Tour "Neo City: Seoul - The Redline" plays Assembly Row Sunday; rock doc Pulp: What Do You Do For an Encore? plays Kendall Square and the Seaport on Thursday.
• A couple movies with previews at The Coolidge Corner Theatre open for their regular runs: Union Country features Will Poulter and Noah Centineo as brothers going through rehab in a part of Ohio hit hard by the opioid epidemic. The screening of documentary American Doctor on Friday with filmmaker Poh Si Teng doing a Q&A is sold out, but the film about three doctors from different backgrounds volunteering in Gaza will be playing (mostly) on screen #3 all week.
  
  The Coolidge also picks up Boorman and the Devil, which played BUFF and looks back on John Boorman's time directing The Exorcist II.
  
  The midnight basics hit Rocky Horror with Teseracte and some of Full Body Cast for a sold-out show Friday, who also do their regular gig at Boston Common Saturday, while The Room plays with Greg Sestero on hand on Saturday. Cinema Masala returns Saturday afternoon with Shah Rukh Khan and Kajol in Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge, and there's also a presentation of CatVideoFest 2026 on Sunday. "Welcome to the Art House" continues with Amores Perros with a seminar by Dr. Bruno Guaraná Sunday afternoon and Down By Law on 35mm Thursday. East of Eden is the Big Screen Classic on 35mm Monday, while Romy and Michelle's High School Reunion plays for Science on Screen Wednesday. There's also a "Rewind!" screening of A Goofy Movie on Thursday.
• Landmark Kendall Square opens If I Go Will They Miss Me, which looks at Watts through the imaginative eyes of a 12-year-old boy (it also plays Boston Common). They also have School of Rock for "School Days" Tuesdays and Miss Congeniality for the Wednesday Sandra Bullock spotlight.

• Plenty of South Asian cinema at Apple Fresh Pond this week: Hindi thriller Daayra (also at Boston Common), Hindi action-comedy Vibe (through Sunday), Nepali romantic drama Behulii, Malayalam-language thriller It's a Medical Miracle, and Malayalam-language crime dama Pradhama Dhrishtya Kuttakkar. Telugu-language historic action film The Paradise opens at Boston Common, Causeway Street, South Bay (at least) on Wednesday. Hanuman Ansh continues at Fresh Pond, Boston Common, and Causeway Street.
  
  I'm not sure how big a hit Take Off was when it played China back in January, but this story of a rural inventor trying to perfect a personal jetpack is opening on one of the larger screens at Boston Common (including XL). Dear You continues at Boston Common and Causeway Street.
  
  The original animated adaptation of Ghost in the Shell has an anniversary release at Boston Common (and plays the Seaport subtitled Friday & Monday and dubbed Saturday); Akira's big-screen re-release continues at the Coolidge. There's a Crunchyroll Anime Sneak Peak night at Boston Common, the Seaport, Assembly Row on Monday.
  
  Korean alien-attack movie Hope continues at at Fresh Pond, Boston Common, Causeway Street, Kendall Square, the Seaport, South Bay, and Assembly Row.
• The Brattle Theatre has their first Friday Film Matinee in a few weeks, with a 35mm print of The Goonies playing at 3:30pm. They also host the FIRE Freedom of Speech Film Festival, playing Lenny on Friday, All the President's Men and Spotlight on Saturday, and The Librarians on Sunday. All are separate admission and feature post-film discussion.
  
  That overlaps with a tribute to the recently-departed Sam Neill, with Sleeping Dogs Friday, Jurassic Park on 35mm Saturday & Sunday, Possession Saturday & Thursday, The Hunt for the Wilderpeople on Sunday, and a 35mm double feature of In the Mouth of Madness & Event Horizon on Wednesday.
• The Harvard Film Archive begins a Sophia Coppola retrospective (she's due to visit in late October with tickets to her presentation of Marie Antoinette being snapped up quickly) with 35mm prints of The Virgin Suicides and The Bling Ring on Friday night. The Student Cinematheque series returns Saturday after noon with Cabaret on 35mm film, and Graham Greene screenings return with The Third Man and George Cukor's adaptation of Travels with My Aunt later Saturdayevening. The weekend concludes with two more from the João César Monteiro series, with Snow White on Sunday and Hovering Over the Water on Monday.
• French comedy/drama The Marching Band, in which a world-famous composer learns his long-lost brother is a working-class guy who plays trombone in a local marching band, opens at The Capitol. They also have a free (with RSVP) screening of CODA on Wednesday in addition to the regular open-captioned features, and screen documentary The Dads, followed by a group of local PFLAG members discussing their own experiences raising trans and nonbinary kids.
  
  The Somerville Theatre participates in Batman day with a 70mm print of Burton's film Friday to Sunday, also welcoming Jeff Rapsis to accompany a 35mm print of Harold Lloyd in For Heaven's Sake for the comedy's 100th anniversary. They bring back "Fuck the Nazis" with Raiders of the Lost Ark on 35mm Monday, show Monty Python and the Holy Grail on film for the Tuesday Cult Classic, and have a 70mm screening of The Odyssey on Wednesday.
• The Seaport Alamo plays indie oddity Chronovisor on Friday, Saturday, Tuesday, and Wednesday; it's an armchair mystery where an academic tries to track down a mysterious device that can allegedly take pictures through time. The week's Carolco presentation is Basic Instinct (Saturday), while the Twilight screenings reach New Moon on Saturday/Sunday (fan screening)/Tuesday/Wednesday. They also screen the original Korean My Sassy Girl on Sunday, the Wachowskis' Speed Racer on Monday, miss Batman day by screening it Wednesday with a Spy Kids movie party down the hall, and Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai plays Thursday.
• The Taiwan Film Festival of Boston spends the weekend at The Museum of Fine Arts with Deep Quiet Room (sold out) on Friday, a 40th anniversary screening of Hou Hsia-hsien's Dust in the Wind on Saturday, and Lucky Lu (with short "Falcon Eyes") on Sunday, before closing the in-person segment out at the Brattle Theatre on Monday with a free screening of the New Taipei City Documentary award series and Marching Boys with the filmmakers on hand for a Q&A. There will be three weeks of virtual screenings on Giloo afterward (not a bad deal for $3 and lots of free passes given away with surveys at in-person shows).
• The Museum of Science has Interstellar on the Omnimax dome Friday & Saturday evening for Sci-Fi Supersized. There's a free-with-RSVP screening of Vivo for Hispanic Heritage month on the 26th.
• The Boston Film Festival runs this weekend with Unleashed Spirits: The Rise of the Hollywood Vampires at the Wang Center on Friday and various shows at the Boston Public LIbrary, Massachusetts College of Arts and Design, and ArtsEmerson's Paramount Theater, notably including Beneath the Blue Suburban Skies, with writer/director/costar Edward Burns in person; that's marked as a US Premiere and it may actually be the case, despite playing TIFF in 2019 and Burns seeming to be a filmmaker with a small but loyal audience. It wraps up in Rockport on Monday before going virtual on Tuesday.
• The Regent Theatre has their first screening of the 2026 edition of the Manhattan Short Film Festival on Thursday.
• Joe's Free Films (and the Coolidge website) show free outdoor screenings of Toy Story at CambridgeSide on Friday, Superman '25 at the Cambridge Urban Park Roof Garden on Saturday, The Proposal at TimeOut Market on Monday, a double feature of The Straight Story & Wings of Desire at Mount Auburn Cemetery on Tuesday & Wednesday (via the Coolidge), and The Incredibles at Hood Park in Charlestown on Thursday.
• The Lexington Venue has Coyote vs. Acme (Friday & Ssaturday), Shaun the Sheep (Friday to Sunday), and The Weight (Friday to Thursday). They also have a James Whistler "Exhibition on Screen" on Saturday morning, documentaries The Last Picture Shows and Unbroken: The Untold Story of Shen Yun Saturday afternoon; Who Moves America with post-film Q&A Monday; Bernstein's Wall, Late Fame, and Cold War in Philly on Wednesday, and Does Sound Heal on Thursday.
  
  The West Newton Cinema picks up Filipiñana after its Brattle run, Shaun the Sheep, The Weight, and continues Practical Magic 2, Coyote vs. Acme, and Tony. There's a Behind the Screen presentation of documentary Baby Doe with director Jessica Earnshaw there for a post-film discussion on Wednesday, plus local favorite Rebel with a Clause on Thursday.
  
  The Dedham Community Theatre appears to be the only place in the Boston area opening Saoirse Ronan comedy Bad Apples (in which she plays a primary school teacher whose results improve immensely when she accidentally injures a troublemaking student and locks him in her basement) as well as picking up The Weight.
  
  Cinema Salem remains more-or-less all-in on Practical Magic 2 and Coyote vs Acme (no show Saturday) Friday to Monday, though there's also a "Something Wicked" Cabaret show based on Hocus Pocus Friday to Sunday, a Spooky Picture Show/Rewind Market presentation of Night of the Creeps Saturday, a Murder She Wrote anniversary Whodunit Watch Party on Sunday, and The Graduate for Wendesday Classics (plus Weirdo Wednesday). Salem CritterFest has on-demand presenations through Sunday.
  
  Sunny Dancer, with Bella Ramsey as a 17-year-old with leukemia whose parents send her to "chemo camp", plays the Liberty Tree Mall in Danvers, as does Without Blood, a wartime drama directed by Angelina Jolie starring Salma Hayek and Demian Bichir.

Really busy weekend when you add in What the Fluff? and the Boston Pizza festival, but I'm going to try to fit Chronovisor, 70mm Batman, For Heaven's Sake, and The Weight in as well as the Taiwan Film Festival finale, although that makes going against Raiders and Speed Racer is really frustrating! There's also some Sam Neill flicks I'd like to pick up if I can fit them in. Updates on my Letterboxd page.