Next Week in Tickets: Films playing Boston 9 October 2026 - 15 October 2026

Busy week(end)!

• Other Mommy stars Jessica Chastain as both a young mother and what seems to start out as her daughter's imaginary friend before becoming far more sinister. It's at the Capitol, Fresh Pond, Boston Common (including Dolby Cinema), Causeway Street (including XL), the Seaport, South Bay (including Dolby Cinema), Assembly Row (including Dolby Cinema), and Causeway Street.
  
  Aaron Sorkin directs his follow-up to The Social Network in The Social Reckoning, with Jeremy Strong playing Mark Zuckerberg at a point in Facebook's more recent history where his and its power has become destabilizing, with Mikey Madison as a would-be whistleblower. It's at the Capitol, Fresh Pond, West Newton, Boston Common (including Dolby Cinema), Causeway Street, Kendall Square, the Seaport, South Bay (including Dolby Cinema), Assembly Row (including Dolby Cinema), Arsenal Yards, and Causeway Street.
  
  A new version of Angel and the Badman arrives from Angel Studios, with Zachary Levi as the injured outlaw, Meg Fraser as the woman who takes him in, Neal McDonough looking for revenge, and Tommy Lee Jones as the local sheriff. It opens at Fresh Pond, Boston Common, Causeway Street, and South Bay.
  
  This week's film from Scotland is The North, which features two lifelong friends trekking across the country together, and opens at Boston Common.
  
  What is it with Finns casting Samuel L. Jackson as the President of the United States (remember Big Game)? The Beast is Renny Harlin's second release of the year and has Jackson and a Secret Service agent (Joel Kinnaman) taking refuge in the armored (and apparently well-armed) presidential limo during an attack on Washington DC; it opens at Boston Common.
  
  Imax documentary Portrait of an Artist: Stephen Curry follows Curry in the lead-up to is
  
  4,000th career trey and looks at how his emphasis on those shots changed basketball; it's got limited matinees at Boston Common. The restored Queen Budapest encores at Boston Common (Imax Laser) and Kendall Square on Saturday; Filipino concert SB19 Wakas at Simula: The Trilogy Concert Finale has another show at Boston Common Sunday; Always Lalisa, focusing on the Thai Blackpink singer, plays Boston Common (Imax Laser) Monday & Wednesday
  
  Pan's Labyrinth gets a 20th Anniversary re-release that includes a 3D conversion, playing Boston Common (including RealD 3D), Causeway Street (including RealD 3D), the Seaport, and South Bay (including RealD 3D); Instructions Not Included also plays Boston Common for the weekly Hispanic Heritage Month show. 9 to 5 also gets brought back at Boston Common, the Seaport, Arsenal Yards, and Dedham Community Theatre to pay tribute to Dolly Parton. The original 1980 Friday the 13th plays Boston Common and Causeway Street Friday & Tuesday. Gone with the Wind plays Boston Common Sunday/Monday/Wednesday. Training Day plays Wednesday in Dolby Cinema at Boston Common, South Bay, and Assembly Row.
  
  Trust Me, I'm a Doctor has a preview Saturday afternoon at Boston Common. Grandmasters, a documentary on a competitive chess league launched with Magnus Carlsen that will apparently be broken down into a streaming series later, plays Boston Common Sunday & Wednesday. Horror anthology Fresh Meat plays Boston Common on Monday. Monday also has at least two secret preview screenings at Boston Common, Causeway Street, South Bay, and Assembly Row; one specifically for a horror movie, one for something else. There are early access screenings of the new version of Sense & Sensibility at the Capitol, Fresh Pond, Boston Common, Causeway Street, South Bay, Assembly Row, and Arsenal Yards on Wednesday. Some of the Thursday shows of the new Street Fighter at Boston Common (Imax Laser), South Bay (Imax Xenon), and Assembly Row (Imax Laser & Dolby Cinema) are listed as "Bonus Round Fan Event".
• Screen 1 at The Coolidge Corner Theatre is still dedicated to Digger in VistaVision, but they also open Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother, which aside from being the film director Bassam Tariq and Mahershala Ali made when Blade fell through, looks to be a thrilling picture about a hitman who suddenly becomes a single father and is squeezed by everything around him. Also at Boston Common (including XL).
  
  The Coolidge also picks up the new restoration of Unzipped, playing a relatively limited number of shows in the smaller rooms.
  
  The Coolidge After Midnight crew ventures out of Brookline to stage three double features on the deck of the USS Salem in Quincy, with Ghost Ship & The Fog playing Friday, Leviathan & Deep Rising on Saturday, and Jaws & Deep Blue Sea on Sunday; they also head to the Allston Speedway to show Final Destination 3 on Wednesday (maybe the last outdoor show of the season!). Sticking close to home, they continue their October run of suburban scares with Barbarian on Friday and It Follows on Saturday. There's a Cinema Masala show of Kaagaz Ke Phool on Saturday afternoon and a Goethe-Institut preview of the first two episodes of the new season of Babylon Berlin with director Henk Handloegten Sunday morning. There are four screenings of Fjord with director Cristian Mungiu in person as he accepts the Coolidge impact award, although both Sunday night show and the early Monday matinee are sold out, though tickets are still available for a 4pm Monday screening with an introduction. Monday's Big Screen Classic is Dial M For Murder (35mm and presumably 2D), with Open Screen on Tuesday. "Prints of Darkness" shows are Rosemary's Baby in 35mm Tuesday and Devil's Advocate on 35mm Wednesday, and F.W. Murnau's Faust with a live score by the Invincible Czars on Thursday.
• Landmark Kendall Square looks to be open with five screens this week with Ben Affleck writing/directing/starring in kidnapping thriller Animals, which also features Kerry Washington, Gillian Anderson, and Steven Yeun, opening there day-and-date with its Netflix drop. Rep shows include Frankenstein for the Saturday Universal Monster Matinee, Blade for the Tuesday vampire Retro Replay, and Village of the Damned '95 for John Carpenter Wednesdays.

• South Asian films at Apple Fresh Pond (and elsewhere) feature Telugu-language action-comedy Comrade Kalyan (through Sunday); Kannada-language masala drama Premada Oorali (through Sunday); Nepali-language drama Pension Patta. A Telugu-language version of Hanuman Ansh play Fresh Pond and Causeway Street through Sunday, and the new Tamil-language Superstar Rajinikanth blockbuster, Jailer 2, opens at Fresh Pond, Boston Common on Wednesday. Telugu-language historic epic Ranabaali opens Thursday, with Vijay Deverakonda as the title character and Arnold Vosloo a cut above the average guy cast as the British villain. Hindi-language thriller Drishyam: The Conclusion continues at Fresh Pond and Boston Common.
  
  Two films from China open this week, albeit mostly at awkward times. Once Upon a Time in the Middle East plays at Causeway Street and South Bay, starring Shen Teng as a chef at a Chinese restaurant that becomes a refuge when an American-backed war breaks out; V is a mainland-produced Hong Kong crime story from the director of Animal World and Go Away Mr. Tumor!, opening at Boston Common and Causeway Street.
  
  Japanese exorcism thriller Never After Dark, which I quite liked at Fantasia this summer, opens at Boston Common.
  
  Vietnamese comedy Luck for Sale opens at South Bay.
• NAZA, a documentary exposé of Israeli atrocities in Gaza, opens The Seaport Alamo and West Newton. The Alamo also screens the 1987 Hellraiser on Friday, while The Texas Chain Saw Massacre plays Saturday & Monday. Mockumentary A Bloody Mess screens on Saturday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, with director Daniel Hayden and cast member Sydney O'Toole doing an in-person Q&A for the last show. Showgirls is the Carolco show on Sunday, there's both a preview of Sense & Sensibility with livestreamed Q&A, plus Ginger Snaps for Terror Tuesday, and what looks like the only local screening of biopic Tenzing (before it disappears into AppleTV) on Wednesday.
• The Brattle Theatre plays Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey in 35mm for the Friday film matinee before returning to the first half of the Independent Film Festival Boston Fall Focus Film Festival, which previews the upcoming months with Once Upon a Time in Harlem and The Only Living Pickpocket in New York (ain't it a bummer John Turturro and Tatiana Maslany probably aren't still in town?) on Friday; All of a Sudden, Look Back, Fatherland, and Club Kid on Saturday; Iron Boy, Minotaur, Rose, and Tender Loving Care on Sunday; and Wild Horse Nine on Tuesday.
  
  On Monday, they mark Indigenous Peoples' Day with Powwow People in the afternoon and Mārama at 9pm; in between is a crafting-friendly screening of Knives Out. On Wednesday, they begin the not-not-Halloween "Fablecore and More" series with The Adventures of Baron Munchausen on 35mm film, with I Saw the TV Glow playing late Thursday. Thursday also has a special screening of Albert Brooks's Real Life in association with local band Gollylagging and music blog Allston Pudding, which I'm sure makes some sort of sense if you know them.
• The Harvard Film Archive has three by João César Monteiro this weekend, with God's Wedding Friday, The Hips of J.W. on Saturday, and Recollections of the Yellow House Sunday afternoon. Saturday's Student Cinematheque show pairs Buster Keaton in Sherlock Jr. & "The Balloonatic" with live accompaniment by student Blake Hullinger.
• The Somerville Theatre presents the 1925 The Phantom of the Opera Saturday night with the New England Film Orchestra performing Carl Davis's score live. Sunday offers a double feature of The Love Witch on 35mm film and the delightful I Married a Witch before or after. Monday's F— the Nazis show is The Sound of Music on 35mm film, with The Princess Bride on 35mm film for Cult Classics Tuesday This week's 70mm presentation of The Odyssey is on Wednesday. Maybe it's the last, maybe not.
  
  The Capitol has the premiere of documentary Progress? on Friday night.
• The ICA has a special screening of on Friday, with director Louis Massiah on-hand for a post-screening talk.
• The Museum of Science has Pacific Rim on the Omnimax dome Friday & Saturday evening for Sci-Fi Supersized.
• The Regent Theatre has three films this week: The BoSox Club presents a screening of the terrific baseball movie Eephus on Saturday with members of the cast & crew, including Bill Lee, who will be signing autographs afterward Indie A Simple Machine screens on Sunday with filmmakerMark Alan Hoffman and star Richard Blackmon. Finally, documentary House of Hope screens on Wednesday.
• The Museum of Fine Arts has the James McNeill Whistler "Exhibition on Screen" Saturday afternoon.
• The Boston Asian American Film Festival kicks off Thursday night at the Coolidge with a sold-out show of Isle Child.
• Last weekend for the virtual leg of The Taiwan Film Festival of Boston (most easily accessed via the ticketing page).
• The Lexington Venue is open Friday to Monday and Thursday with American Doctor, Ha-Chan Shake Your Booty!, and Digger. Documentary Hanging By a Wire plays Thursday evening.
  
  The West Newton Cinema opens NAZA, The Social Reckoning and keeps Digger (Monday to Wednesday), The History of Concrete, The Incomer (Saturday to Wednesday), Primetime, and Coyote vs. Acme. Rock opera Tommy plays Saturday. Au Revoir Les Enfants plays Thursday afternoon; there's a "Producer's Circle" presentation of a still-untitled RV family documentary Thursday evening.
  
  The Embassy Cinema shows locally-produced comedy short "Frat Earthers" Saturday night.
  
  The Dedham Community Theatre plays 9 to 5, Digger, and The Incomer.
  
  All-Halloween all-the-time at Cinema Salem, with Hocus Pocus every day but Monday & Tuesday; Practical Magic 2 Friday to Sunday and Thursday; The Craft Friday to Sunday and Wednesday; John Carpenter's Halloween Friday/Sunday/Wednesday/Thursday. The Devil's Backbone is the Friday Night Light. Universal Monstersthis week are Dracula (Friday & Thursday), Frankenstein (Saturday), The Wolf Man (Sunday), and The Creature from the Black Lagoon (Friday & Thursday). Scream plays Saturday & Wednesday, and The Craft on Sunday. The Wednesday Classic is 1945's The Picture of Dorian Gray, and Weirdo Wednesday is probably spooky in some way too.
  
  Winter of the Crow, starring Leslie Manville as a professor who witnesses a student killed by secret police in 1981 Warsaw, opens at the Liberty Tree Mall in Danvers, as does Double Trouble, an action-comedy starring sisters Madeleine & Violet McGraw.

As I often do, I am mostly going to rely on the Fall Focus to sell out without me except for the stuff I think is less likely to get a regular theatrical release (mainly Iron Boy on Sunday) so I can cram V, Once Upon a Time in the Middle East, The Beast, Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother, and Tenzing. Updates on my Letterboxd page.