Next Week in Tickets: Films playing Boston 6 November 2026 - 12 November 2026

Mildly disappointed the Cooldige, which has the original art of the theater being destroyed by Godzilla in the recent Godzilla vs Boston comic book hanging in its lobby, will not be playing the new movie.

• Everywhere else, though, it's Godzilla time, with Godzilla Minus Zero picking up two years after the end of Godzilla Minus One and seeing the giant monster return. It's notable for being the first in the Toho series to be filmed for Imax, rated R, and open internationally at the same time as in Japan, and will be playing Fresh Pond, CinemaSalem, Boston Common (Imax Laser & Dolby CInema & XL), Causeway Street (including XL), the Seaport (including Dolby Atmos), South Bay (including Imax Xenon & Dolby Cinema), and Assembly Row (including Imax Laser & Dolby Cinema).
  
  The big-budget Ramayana: Rise of a Legend is at Apple Fresh Pond, Boston Common, Causeway Street, and South Bay, both Hindi-language and English-dubbed (with about half an hour cut and visual FX helping the lip-sync) on the one hand and 3D and flat on the other; check listing for what you're getting at any given showtime. Also opening are Tamil-language action comedy Scene (Fresh Pond, Boston Common, and Causeway Street); Tamil-language fantasy adventure Mookuthi Amman 2 (Fresh Pond through Sunday); Telugu-language family drama Summer Holidays (Causeway Street; it's listed without showtimes on the Apple Cinema site).
  
  Korean thriller Paradise Lost, in which a boy returns home after his entire class disappeared 9 years ago, opens at Causeway Street. Director Yeon Sang-ho just had Colony in theaters a few weeks ago and has been busy for the past few years! K-pop concert film Stray Kids World Tour: Run It plays Assembly Row on Sunday.
  
  Vietnamese mystery Karaoke Murder continues at South Bay (intermittently).
• The big award-hopeful opening from the United States is Wild Horse Nine, the new one from Martin McDonagh takes what's become a familiar situation - hitman (John Malkovich) starting to have senior moments - and puts some new twists on it as he and the partner (Sam Rockwell) assigned to take him out cool their heels on Easter Island before a mission. It's at the Somerville, the Coolidge, the Lexington Venue, West Newton, Dedham Community Theatre, Boston Common (including Dolby Cinema), Causeway Street, Kendall Square, the Seaport, and Chestnut Hill; it expands to South Bay and Assembly Row next weekend.
  
  Portal-palooza 2026 continues with The Cat in the Hat, which stretches Dr. Suess's book out to nearly two hours as the Cat (voice of Bill Hader) takes two kids who have just moved into a surreal landscape made of their memories. Is it just me, or does this feel like it's been on the shelf for a while, like I've been seeing trailers for two years, or did it just get a very early teaser before delays. At any rate, it's at the Capitol, Fresh Pond, West Newton, CinemaSalem, Boston Common (including Dolby Cinema 2D & RealD 3D), Causeway Street (including XL 2D & RealD 3D), South Bay (including Dolby Cinema 2D & RealD 3D), Assembly Row (including Dolby Cinema 2D & RealD 3D), Arsenal Yards (including CWX), and Chestnut Hill.
  
  Jimmy, starring former Archie K.J. Apa as James Stewart in an arc that follows his enlisting to fight in World War II and subsequent return, opens at Fresh Pond, Boston Common, Causeway Street, and South Bay.
  
  Also opening is Drummer Boy an Angel-produced Revolutionary War musical built around Australian C&W band King & Country, which may or may not be crazy enough to be intriguing. It's at Fresh Pond, Boston Common, South Bay, Assembly Row, and Arsenal Yards. Jim Caviezel action film Ghost Soldier, which is somehow not an Angel production, opens at Fresh Pond, Boston Common, Causeway Street, South Bay, and Assembly Row on Tuesday (well, technically Wednesday, but basically Tuesday).
  
  La Bola Negra expands to West Newton, Boston Common, the Kendall, and the Seaport. Once Upon a Time in Harmelm opens at West Newton and Boston Common; both opened at the Coolidge last week.
  
  Rocky plays Boston Common Saturday to Wednesday, South Bay Saturday & Wednesday, and Assembly Row on Saturday ahead of I Play Rocky hitting theaters next week. Rammstein - Live in Mexico City has an encore at Boston Common Saturday afternoon. Heart of the Beast is back at South Bay and Assembly Row for Veteran's Day shows on Wednesday, while Boston Common has American Sniper. There's a mystery preview at Boston Common, Causeway Street, South Bay, and Assembly Row on Monday. How to Rob a Bank has a non-mystery preview Wednesday at Boston Common (Dolby Cinema), Causeway Street (XL), the Seaport (Dolby Atmos), South Bay (Dolby Cinema), and Assembly Row (Dolby Cinema).
• The Coolidge Corner Theatre opens the new film by Pawel Pawlikowski, Fatherland, following father and daughter on a trip across postwar German after years of exile in America. They also continue to project La Bola Negra from a 35mm print when it's on screen #1 or #2 (most showtimes).
  
  It's Friedkin Midnight all November at the Coolidge, opening with 35mm prints of The Guardian on Friday and To Live and Die in L.A. on Saturday (there's also the monthly-ish screening of Eraserhead Friday). Early Saturday, they have a Relaxed Screening of Raya and the Last Dragon. Noirvember continues Wednesday with Kay Lynch on hand to discuss Beware, My Lovely, with the series continuing Thursday with a late-ish cult classic screening of In Bruges.
• The Brattle Theatre gives The Scout a run through Tuesday, with Mimi Davila as a New York location scout encountering a number of people as she looks for locations for a television pilot. As a complement, they have a series of movies memorably shot on location in New York running alongside it, featuring After Hours (Friday/Saturday), Sidewalk Stories (Saturday), The Brother From Another Planet (35mm Sunday/Monday), Permanent Vacation (35mm) & Variety (Tuesday).
  
  They also have (mostly) late shows of cult classic Begotten Friday, Saturday, and Sunday and a craft-along show of Double Indemnity on Monday. Mammoth documentary My Undesirable Friends Part II: Exile, following Russian Journalists who have scattered through Europe, plays in two parts, with the first three "episodes" on Wednesday and the concluding two on Thursday.
• The Harvard Film Archive, meanwhile, heads to the West Coast for "Visions of a City: A Weekend in San Francisco", an all-on-35mm-film tour that includes Bullitt (Friday with 16mm short "Visions of a City"), The Conversation (Friday), Sudden Fear (Saturday), Experiment in Terror (Saturday), Invasion of the Body Snatchers '78 (a rare Saturday late show), Dark Passage (Sunday), The Lineup (Sunday with 16mm short "Threnody"), and Vertigo (Monday with 16mm short "Side/Walk/Shuttle").
  
  The Saturday Student Cinemetheque (free with Harvard ID) is Zhang Limou's Ju Dou, paired with European short film "A", both on 35mm film. Tuesday evening has a free screening of To a Land Unknown with director (and Radcliffe-FSC Fellow) Mahdi Fleifel about his film featuring two Palestinian refugees in Athens trying to make it to Germany.
• The Somerville Theatre has a sold-out show of Cast Aside the Clouds with filmmakers on hand Saturday night. Grass: A Nation's Battle for Life, a documentary adventure by the makers of King Kong, is the "Silents Please!" show on Sunday. They also host the first of Wicked Queer's autumn events on Sunday, with ìfé: The Sequel, which follows up on the events of the 2020 short (which will be shown first) as the two star-crossed lovers reconnect a few years later Monday's F— the Nazis show is The Blues Brothers on 35mm film, with El Topo also playing on 35mm for Cult Film Tuesdays. Documentary I Can Do Hard Things: Samantha's Story plays on Thursday.
  
  The Capitol hosts the Finding Bright FIlm Festival (formerly known as the Arlington International Film Festival) from Friday to Sunday, with features Objet A (Friday), Yo: Love Is A Rebellious Bird (Saturday w/ puppet workshop), and Matapanki, four short packages - "A Family Affair" (Friday). "Field Guide" (Saturday), "Fantastique" (Saturday), "Down the Rabbit Hole" (Sunday)- and immersive horror theater show ExperiMENTAL (Saturday).
• The Seaport Alamo has oddball postapocalyptic dark comedy Littermates Friday & Monday, We Own the Night plays Saturday afternoon, The Magnificent Ambersons and Little Odessa (separately) on Sunday, Southland Tales on Monday, Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer for Terror Tuesday, Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown Wednesday & Thursday, and Crocodile Dose with short "EE." for Weird Wednesday . There's also a preview of Paper Tiger with livestreamed Q&A on Tuesday.
• Landmark Kendall Square has The Killers for Noirvember on Tuesday, with Robert De Niro in The Deer Hunter on Wednesday.

• The Museum of Science has Godzilla Minus Zero on the dome Friday & Saturday nights until Dune comes, and will have a special preview of Invisible Hand as part of Native American Heritage month next Saturday.
• The Boston Jewish Film Festival continues with Women on Trial at the Brattle Saturday, The First Lady at The Museum of Fine Arts on Sunday, The Tasters at the JCC Monday, I Had the Heart at West Newton on Tuesday, Rosenthal at the Coolidge on Wednesday, and Sapio V. Ford on Thursday; most presentations have filmmaker Q&A or some other guests.
• The Revolutions Per Minute Festival continues with programs "Before I Knew You" and "Medium Is…" at the Harvard CAMlab on Friday; feature Tycoon and programs "Loose Dirt", "A Different Clock", and "What Comes Through" at the CAMlab on Saturday; concluding at their semi-regular Sunday afternoon stop of the Brattle Theatre for a program of films by Ken Jacobs.
• The Embassy Cinema starts a classic-slapstick weekend on Thursday with the Marx Brothers in The Cocoanuts
• The Lexington Venue is open all week but Monday with Wild Horse Nine, The Only Living Pickpocket in New York, and You Can See Everything. Girl Scout documentary Cookie Queens plays Saturday afternoon.
  
  The West Newton Cinema turns a bunch of screens over this weekend, picking up La Bola Negra, Once Upon a Time in Harlem, The Cat in the Hat, Wild Horse Nine, only continuing The Only Living Pickpocket in New York and You Can See Everything. Wildwood has one last Saturday evening show, and Ty Burr's film club gets an earlier start than usual on Thursday to screen The Seven Samurai.
  
  The Dedham Community Theatre has The Only Living Pickpocket in New York and Wild Horse Nine.
  
  Cinema Salem is more or less back to "normal" this weekend, with Godzilla Minus Zero, The Cat in the Hat, and You Can See Everything plus Halloween holdover Hocus Pocus on the regular Friday to Monday schedule Well, almost normal, as Happenstance Horror Fest takes over a screen on Saturday with two 3+ hour blocks of short films, and director Craig Meinart visits on Thursday with his horror film Beware! The Devil's Wrath. Saturday also features a screening of Henri-Georges Cluzot's Diabolique with post-film discussion. The Wednesday Classic is Key Largo, with Weirdo Wednesday down the hall.

Not sure I can fit Finding Bright in among Godzilla, Paradise Lost, Grass, and Wild Horse Nine this weekend, especially considering that both the Brattle and HFA programs are stacked. Going to see some old favorites might make updating my Letterboxd page easier, though.