Next Week in Tickets: Films playing Boston 11 September 2026 - 17 September 2026

Does it still get oddly quiet in terms of new releases while the critics are up in Toronto, or are there not enough for that to be a factor?

• The big release is Practical Magic 2, one of those sequels where the characters from the first (Sandra Bullock & Nicole Kidman) have nearly-grown kids (Joey King & Maisie Williams) encountering the same curse where men who fall in love with them die. It's at the Somerville, Fresh Pond, West Newton, CinemaSalem, Boston Common (including Dolby Cinema), Causeway Street (including XL), Kendall Square, the Seaport (including Dolby Atmos), South Bay (including Dolby Cinema), Assembly Row (including Dolby Cinema), Arsenal Yards (including CWX), and Chestnut Hill.
  
  Runner looks like an old-school action comedy starring Alan Ritchson & Owen Wilson as organ transporters that someone wants to fail in their delivery or who know too much or the like. Kind of weird that there's two movies where the MacGuffin is a transplant organ in as many weeks (next week's Resident Evil) and that this is an Angel Studios production, because it looks oddly fun for one. It's at Fresh Pond, Boston Common, South Bay, and Assembly Row.
  
  There's obvious Robin Hood vibes to Paul Greengrass's The Uprising, starring Andrew Garfield as a farmer who rebels against a cruel over-taxing king, but it's not that, as it's drawn from a different period in English history even if the struggle is apparently timeless. It's at Fresh Pond, Boston Common (including Dolby Cinema), Causeway Street, South Bay, Assembly Row, and Arsenal Yards.
  
  Oasis: Don't Look Back in Anger Starts its regular run at Boston Common (including Imax Laser), the Seaport, South Bay (including Imax Xenon), and Assembly Row (including Imax Laser). Juan Gabriel: Mi Primer Bellas Artes, a concert film taken from three 1990 shows in Argentina, plays Boston Common Tuesday and Wednesday.
  
  Thriller The Fix, with Zachary Levi and Liam Neeson as former spies planning a heist in Tehran, is either exceptionally well- or poorly-timed even before you get to the 9/11 release date. It's playing Boston Common. Odd week for a re-release of The Passion of the Christ at Boston Common, for that matter.
  
  Documentary Mighty Mary, about an all-female sailing team in the America's Cup, opens at Boston Common.
  
  There are mystery previews at Boston Common, Causeway Street, South Bay, Assembly Row Sunday afternoon and all those places plus the Seaport Monday evening (possibly the same movie, as both are marked PG). The Weight gets a non-mystery Dolby Cinema preview Wednesday at Boston Common, South Bay, and Assembly Row.
• The Cycle of Love opens at The Coolidge Corner Theatre, with documentarian Orlando von Einsiedel following a Delhi street artist as he journeys to Europe by bicycle to meet the Swedish tourist he fell for. It's also at West Newton.
  
  Midnight classics this week are El Topo on Friday and Showgirls on Saturday, with Mass Mini Con presenting a mystery screening (including limited edition poster) at 9pm Saturday night. Sunday morning's Goethe-Istitut German film is another tale of the end of the Cold War in Berlin Hero, where a former GDR railway worker who once accidentally sent a train into the West is rediscovered, with his screw-up presented as a heroic act. After that, "Welcome to the Art House" continues with a 35mm print of 8½ Sunday afternoon; Paris, Texas on Monday night; Aguirre, the Wrath of God on Tuesday (optional seminar with BU's Roy Grundmann); and Cléo from 5 to 7 on Wednesday. There's a preview of Union Country with director Adam Meeks and actor Will Poulter on Tuesday (two, actually; I'm guessing only the 7:15pm on screen 1 has Q&A with the other just getting an intro). The Jerk plays on 35mm for the Big Screen Classic on Thursday (seminar with Andy Miara), with The Warriors in the night's later "Cult Classic" slot, featuring a post-film discussion. Documentary American Doctor plays on Thursday and next Friday with filmmaker Poh Si Teng on hand.
• It doesn't seem to be any sort of national holiday in India but there are a lot of films from the subcontinent this week, although maybe it's just always like this over there and there are more screens than usual available this week. The big one seems to be Hindi-language action movie Haiwaan, with Akshay Kumar & Saif Ali khan as a blind martial artist and the killer he's protecting a girl from (or vice versa), opening at Apple Fresh Pond, Boston Common, and Causeway Street (Friday/Sunday/Tuesday); Hindi-language spiritual drama Hanuman Ansh plays Fresh Pond, Boston Common, and Causeway Street (Saturday/Monday/Wednesday); Telugu-language masala picture Epic - First Semester is at Fresh Pond and Boston Common; Tamil-language sports drama Mandaadi plays Fresh Pond and Boston Common; Tamil-language action flick Sardar 2 plays Fresh Pond (through Monday) and Boston Common. Nepali drama Parvati opens at Fresh Pond. Hindi-language TV tie-in Mirzapur: The Movie continues at Fresh Pond and Boston Common.
  
  Korean alien-attack movie Hope, opened Wednesday and continues at at Fresh Pond, West Newton, Boston Common, Causeway Street, Kendall Square, the Seaport, South Bay, and Assembly Row. It's nuts in a terrific way.
  
  Akira's big-screen re-release continues at the Coolidge, Boston Common, South Bay, Assembly Row.
  
  Dear You continues at Boston Common and Causeway Street. Chinese animated adventure All Wishes Come True continues at Causeway Street.
• The Brattle Theatre opens Filipiñana for a week, a satiric film following a teenager working her first day as a "tee girl" at a Manila golf course that caters to foreigners and the wealthy and finding things
  
  even stranger as she tries to return a lost club. Sort of a little cute in its eccentricity, but I liked it at IFFB this spring. They have already sold out Friday night's Mass Mini Con show of Ghost in the Shell, but it's getting a wide rerelease next week. There's also a craft-along presentation of Clueless on Monday and a GRRL HAUS CINEMA.
• The Harvard Film Archive starts a new series this weekend focusing on João César Monteiro, "Poet-Provocateur", with Silvestre on Friday evening and Snow White on Monday, the latter preceded by short "He Who Awaits Dead Man’s Shoes Dies Barefoot: A Cinematographic Proverb". In between, they have "Marathon '77", with seven films from 1977 screening on 35mm film, starting at about 3pm Saturday and ending at about 7:30AM Sunday. $20 gets you Citizens Band, ¡Alambrista!, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Sorcerer, Rolling Thunder, Pumping Iron, and Eraserhead.
• The Somerville Theatre starts "Cult Cinema Tuesdays" this week with a 35mm print of Harold and Maude, as well as "Open Caption Wednesdays, where at least some screenings (this week, Tony) will be presented with titles for the deaf and hard of hearing.
  
  Sister cinema The Capitol hosts the Wander Film Fest on Friday night, featuring six shorts from Asian American filmmakers, with Chris Yen (who directed two) on-hand for a Q&A. Tickets include ice cream from NYC's Nine Treasures Creamery with pints available afterward, and some are tempting. The Capitol will also be open-captioning on Wednesdays, this week on all five screens.
• The Seaport Alamo shows Twilight Saturday to Wednesday, with a special "fan screening" on Sunday. They also start their Carolco series with First Blood on Saturday and The Doors on Monday. Road movie Dreams in Nightmares fittingly makes its third stop in the Boston area there Sunday. The Terror Tuesday show is Angel Heart with Catration Movie Anthology II: The Best of Both Worlds for Weird Wednesday.
• Landmark Kendall Square has Election for "School Days" Tuesdays and Eyes Wide Shut for the Wednesday Nicole Kidman spotlight.
• The Taiwan Film Festival of Boston continues this week with Before the Bright Day at the Coolidge on Monday and Blind Love with filmmaker Q&A at the Somerville on Thursday.
• The Museum of Science starts a series of Friday & Saturday shows on the Omni Dome this weekend with The Terminator, with the series set to run through at least Halloween. They'll also have a free-with-RSVP screening of Vivo for Hispanic Heritage month on the 26th.
• The Boston Film Festival begins Wednesday with a "Special Screening" of Bobo Saves Christmas at ArtsEmerson's Paramount Theater with co-star Maria Menounos and Director Keven Undergaro on-hand for a Q&A. The site says the festival starts Thursday but nothing's listed that date.
• The Regent Theatre has Vive Le Punk for a midweek music movie on Thursday.
• Just a couple outdoor screenings on Joe's Free Films this week with Twilight at TimeOut Market on Monday and Shrek at Allston Speedway on Wednesday (via the Coolidge).
• The Lexington Venue has Coyote vs. Acme (Friday to Sunday plus Tuesday & Thursday), Cookie Queens (Friday to Sunday), and Bernstein's Wall (Friday to Sunday). They also have a James Whistler "Exhibition on Screen" on Tuesday and documentary featurette "Does Sound Heal" on Thursday.
  
  The West Newton Cinema picks up Practical Magic 2, The Cycle of Love, and Hope, holding over Bernstein's Wall, Coyote vs. Acme, Tony, and The Invite. On Monday, Bruce Vogt accompanies a silent double feature of Buster Keaton's One Week and Mary Pickford in Stella Maris,. Documentary Who Moves America plays with post-film Q&A from producer Yoni Golijov Tuesday night (and apparently without on Wednesday). The Lives of Others plays Thursday afternoon, with The Godfather for Ty Burr's film club later that night.
  
  The Dedham Community Theatre holds over Late Fame, Virginia Woolf's Night & Day, and The Salt Path.
  
  Rare two-screen opener for Practical Magic at Cinema Salem, but they do love their witches, with Coyote vs Acme (no show Saturday) also playing Friday to Monday. Heavy Metal is Friday's Night Light show; the Wednesday Classic is Cool Hand Luke with Weirdo Wednesday down the hall. The 2026 CatVideoFest plays Thursday to kick off Salem CritterFest (much of the progam virtual and not everything on Eventive is on the CinemaSalem page, so maybe call before showing up).
  
  Surfing documentary A Marble in the Jar and giant-spider movie Don't Move play the Liberty Tree Mall in Danvers.

Already have tickets for the two Taiwan Film Fest screenings, and am tempted to hit the Capitol for the ice cream tonight! Aside from The Uprising, it's kind of a morbid curiosity situation with a lot of the new releases, and Practical Magic 2 is the second sequel this summer where I wasn't terribly interested in seeing a chick flick twenty-odd years ago, which is kind of crazy. Hopefully the stuff I need to catch up on isn't only at inconvenient times/locations! Updates on my Letterboxd page.