Next Week in Tickets: Films playing Boston 30 October 2026 - 5 November 2026

As the calendar flips from Spooky Season to Noirvember, it looks like Netflix is making an unusually hard push to get their awards contenders in theaters this year, even seeming to play nice with AMC!

• John Turturro plays The Only Living Pickpocket in New York in a lean-looking crime caper that also features Steve Buscemi, Tatiana Maslany, and Giancarlo Esposito. It's at the Somerville, the Coolidge, the Lexington Venue, West Newton, Dedham Community Theatre, Boston Common, and the Seaport.
  
  Christmas at the Kringles arrives just before Halloween, as it's a horror movie about a cult-like family that celebrates Christmas all year (and this probably gets it on VOD before the other holiday). It plays Boston Common and Causeway Street.
  
  The first of three Netflix movies hitting theaters this week is The Mosquito Bowl, with Peter Berg directing the story of four college football stars who enlist after Pearl Harbor and play one final scrimmage before being tossed into what is apparently one very gnarly battle. It's at Boston Common.
  
  The latest documentary from Jimmy Chin & Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi is Everest: The Other Side, which follows a couple aiming to not only climb the mountains steep north face - summitted much less often than the south - but ski down afterward. It's at Boston Common (including Imax Laser), the Seaport (Saturday/Sunday/Tuesday/Wednesday), and Assembly Row (including Imax Laser).
  
  Liam Neeson's latest action movie, The Mongoose, has him fleeing the manslaughter of ex-wife Marisa Tomei's husband in a flashy sportscar, and plays Boston Common. Fantasia premiere The Last Temptation of Becky (which, I'm not gonna lie, didn't keep me awake at the end of a long day) plays Boston Common Wednesday & Thursday.
  
  Documentary NAZA returns to screens with a full slate at Fresh Pond, daily shows at the Seaport, and Tuesday/Wednesday screenings in the Lexington Venue.
  
  Once Upon a Time in Hollywood also returns to Imax screens at Boston Common, South Bay, and Assembly Row ahead of the sequel in a few weeks. The Nightmare Before Christmas re-returns to Boston Common (RealD 3D) for the week, the Capitol Friday & Saturday, and Arsenal Yards Friday to Sunday. Scream plays Boston Common all week and the Seaport Friday; The Crow plays Boston Common and Causeway Street Friday/Saturday; Rocky Horror plays a possibly-unaccompanied show at Boston Common Friday in addition to the usual thing with Full Body Cast on Saturday. V for Vendetta plays Boston Common Sunday & Thursday (the 5th of November); Wild at Heart plays Boston Common Sunday & Tuesday and the Seaport Tuesday & Wednesday; Hell House LLC plays Boston Common Sunday.
  
  The BTS World tour stops in Sao Paulo for Live viewings at South Bay, Assembly Row Friday night with an encore Saturday afternoon. Rammstein: Live in Mexico City plays Boston Common Wednesday & Thursday.
  
  Wild Horse Nine has early access shows Friday night at the Somerville, Boston Common (Dolby Cinema), the Seaport, Chestnut Hill. There are secret screenings Monday at Boston Common, Causeway Street, Kendall Square, South Bay, and Assembly Row (long-ish, PG-13).
• The Coolidge Corner Theatre gets a 35mm print of Netflix's La bola Negra, which follows three generations of men during Spain's tumultuous 20th century, often grappling with their own sexuality. It plays on film when on screen #1 or #2, and The Devils still has 35mm showtimes when on screen #2.
  
  The Coolidge also opens documentary Once Upon a Time in Harlem, which restores footage the late William Greaves shot of a get-together of Harlem Renaissance titans in 1972 and fashions it into a feature.
  
  Halloween midnights conclude with Fright Night '85 on 35mm film Friday and an all-35mm Mummy Marathon on Saturday, kicking off with Boris Karloff in the 1932 The Mummy and Hammer's The Mummy's Shroud, with five more until folks finally get out at noon or so. For the kids that can't stay up so late, Frankenweenie plays Saturday morning. Then it's November and time for a program of wintry film noir, starting with On Dangerous Ground Sunday afternoon and Fargo in the later Cult Classics slot on Thursday. Monday's Big Screen Classic is Network, and there's Open Screen on Tuesday.
• Landmark Kendall Square seems to be up to six screens, adding Lea Seydoux in French Thriller Gentle Monster to the pre-Netflix lineup that includes Possible Love.
  
  The 1943 Phantom of the Opera is October's last Saturday Universal Monster Matinee, and then the Kendall starts their own Noirvember series with Double Indemnity on Tuesday, with Mean Streets kicking off a De Niro series on Wednesday.

• It's a quiet start to the week for South Asian movies at Apple Fresh Pond. The big opener is Telugu-language thriller Aadarsha Kutumbam House No: 47 (yes, they're using the "AK-47" abbreviation), with a seemingly flawless family ripping itself apart; it also plays Boston Common, Causeway Street. Telugu-language horror movie #CULT plays late Friday at Fresh Pond but through Tuesday at Boston Common, Marathi-language thriller Gondhal plays Saturday afternoon, and Gujarati-language drama Chatni plays Saturday night. Nepali sports comedy/drama Kabaddi 5: After the Final Match returns for a full week at Fresh Pond; Tamil-language actioner Jailer 2 continues at Fresh Pond and Boston Common. The big opener, though, is the big-budget adaptation Ramayana: Rise of a Legend, which starts Wednesday with both Hindi-language and English-language shows at Fresh Pond, Hindi-language (including Imax 3D Wednesday & RealD 3D) and English-language (including RealD 3D) shows at Boston Common, Hindi-language (including 3D) at Causeway Street.
  
  Vietnamese mystery Karaoke Murder opens at South Bay.
  
  Anime feature The Irregular at Magic High School: Yotsuba Succession Arc plays Boston Common, the Seaport, Assembly Row Sunday (subtitled) and Tuesday (dubbed). Tuesday is also "Godzilla Day", with Godzilla Minus Zero opening at the Museum of Science (Omnimax Tuesday only), Boston Common, (Imax Laser), South Bay (Imax Xenon), Assembly Row (Imax Laser) ahead of a wider release Friday.
• After a Friday Film Matinee of The Gate in 35mm, The Brattle Theatre is back on the IFFBosotn Fall Focus Film Festival's second leg, withRehearsals for a Revolution and Bedford Park on Friday; La Gradiva, Ashes, Everytime,Coward, and Split Rock on Saturday; Tangles, The Dreamed Adventure, Clarissa, andBitter Christmas on Sunday; Elsinore on Monday; I Play Rocky on 35mm Tuesday, and Behemoth! on Wednesday.
• The Harvard Film Archive ends their João César Monteiro series with his final film, Come and Go, on Saturday. After that, "Great Expectations: British Postwar Cinema, 1945-1960" turns the calendar with Halloween-ish screenings of Daughters of Darkness and The Three Weird Sisters on 35mm Saturday and noir-ish They Made Me a Fugitive on Sunday.
• The two main rep series at The Somerville Theatre wraps the Halloween Hullabaloo with House on Haunted Hill (35mm) & Dragonwyck on Friday and a 35mm print of The Rocky Horror Picture Show with Teseracte Players on Saturday. Sunday features Ukrainian/Soviet documentary The Eleventh Year with accompaniment by Psychedelic Cinema Orchestra in the afternoon and Concessions, a comedy about a movie theater's last day of operations, playing on 35mm with a Q&A featuring director Mas Bouzidi and actor Jonathan Lorenzo Price afterward. F— the Nazis returns Monday night with a 35mm print of Inglorious Basterds, while Cult Film Tuesday is Eraserhead on 35mm. Ski movie Warren Miller's Days Off plays Wednesday & Thursday (Miller, who died in 2018, apparently a brand name now).
  
  The Capitol has The Nightmare Before Christmas Friday & Saturday, plus a 6-hour "Celluloid Confidential" 16mm Horror Marathon presented by High Energy Vintage on Sunday.
• The Seaport Alamo pays accidental tribute to the late Sir Patrick Stewart with a 10th anniversary show of Green Room Friday night. They also wrap the Tohoscope series with Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla Saturday/Sunday/Wednesday. They also have Carpenter's Halloween, the '86 Trick or Treat, and Rocky Horror Saturday. They appear to be closed Monday and play Swingers on Thursday.
• The Museum of Science has Event Horizon on the Omnimax dome Friday & Saturday evening for the final Sci-Fi Supersized, with a Dia de Muertos show of Coco on Sunday and Godzilla Minus Zero on Tuesday.
• The Boston Jewish Film Festival kicks off Wednesday at the Coolidge with Belgian WWII romance The Soundman; director Frank Van Passel will be on-hand for Q&A afterward. On Thursday, they move to the Brattle for Our Bodies and Other Shames with director Jenny Lester & actor Malka Wallick, with Looking for Yashida playing at the JCC's Riemer-Goldstiein Theater in Newton.
• The Revolutions Per Minute Festival has enough events year-round that one can forget it's also an annual event, but the 2026 edition begins at Goethe-Institut on Thursday, with programs "Animated Beyond" and "Drawing Closer" free with RSVP.
• The ICA has a short film program "Feel no guilt in your desire" on Thursday night, part of their "90 Years" exhibition; all of these shorts were presented at the ICA during the 1980s.
• The Embassy Cinema finishes Halloween silents week with The Phantom of the Opera 1925 on Friday and Nosferatu 1922 on Halloween, then has 20th Anniversary Election Day specials of Idiocracy on Sunday & Tuesday.
  
  
• The Lexington Venue is open all week but Monday with Fjord (Friday/Saturday/Wednesday), The Only Living Pickpocket in New York, and You Can See Everything. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre and The Silence of the Lambs play Friday & Saturday, with American Doctor Tuesday to Thursday and NAZA Tuesday & Wednesday.
  
  The West Newton Cinema opens The Only Living Pickpocket in New York, Wicker, and Possible Love, holding over A Talent for Murder, Fjord (no shows Sunday/Wednesday), Wildwood, You Can See Everything, and Sense & Sensibility (no show Sunday). Documentary Your Attention Please plays Wednesday evening with director Sara Robin, writer/editor Jack LeMay, and executive producer Joni Siani on-hand for a Q&A.
  
  The Dedham Community Theatre has The Only Living Pickpocket in Now York, Fjord, and Sense & Sensability.
  
  How sick of Halloween do Salemites get by the end of October, or would they not live there if they didn't love it? Anyway, I expect big turnover for Cinema Salem next week, but for now it's Hocus Pocus, Practical Magic 2, Scream, and and Halloween Friday/Sunday/Wednesday/Thursday Friday/Sunday/Wednesday; The Craft Friday & Sunday. The Universal Monster Lineup is Frankenstein (Friday/Sunday), Dracula (Friday/Sunday), The Bride of Frankenstein (Sunday), The Invisible Man (Sunday), and The Creature from the Black Lagoon (Sunday). The Friday Night LIght show is The Crow. The Wednesday Classic is God Diggers of 1933, with Weirdo Wednesday next door. They're actually closed on Halloween!
  
  Breeder only opens at the Showcase in Dedham and the Liberty Tree Mall in Danvers after a ton of trailers in downtown theaters.

Well, dang, I guess it's the front row for Imax 3D Ramayana. I also figure to go big for Everest, have a full Sunday planned between Godzilla vs Mechagodzilla and the two at the Somerville, and check out The Only Living Pickpocket in New York. Might be last call for Primetime, Sense & Sensibility, and The Social Reckoning, so maybe try to squeeze those in. And we'll see if I feel like staying up for The Mongoose at any point; it'll make it to my Letterboxd page if so.