Next Week in Tickets: Films playing Boston 13 November 2026 - 19 November 2026

I don't often root for movies to fail, but we could really kill the concept of "Johnny Depp, movie star" this weekend, just by seeing better movies!

• I Play Rocky, which recounts how Sylvester Stallone wrote himself a movie when nobody else would take a chance on him, opens at the Coolidge (35mm) and Boston Common (including Dolby Cinema); it expands to Causeway Street, South Bay, Assembly Row, Arsenal Yards, and Chestnut Hill next weekend.
  
  Opening on more screens is Ebeneezer, with Johnny Depp playing Scrooge and director Ti West hinting at a spookier take on A Christmas Carol; it's at Fresh Pond, Boston Common, Causeway Street, the Seaport, South Bay (including Dolby Cinema), Assembly Row (including Dolby Cinema), Arsenal Yards (including CWX), and Chestnut Hill.
  
  How to Rob a Bank has David Leich directing Nicolas Hoult as the head of a crew that uploads their robberies on social media, with John C. Reilly as the G-Man who recruits Zoe Kravitz's hacker to help track him down. It's at The Capitol, Fresh Pond, Boston Common, Causeway Street, the Seaport (Dolby Atmos HDR), South Bay, and Assembly Row (including Dolby Cinema).
  
  Victorian Psycho has Maika Monroe as the title character, a governess who apparently aims to marry into her new employers' (Ruth Wilson & Jason Isaacs) family and will stop at nothing to make it happen, with Thomasin McKenzie also in the cast. That opens at Boston Common and the Seaport.
  
  Faith-based oddity God with Us opens at Boston Common, apparently taking place in an alternate world "where the promised savior never came" and following a miraculously pregnant couple.
  
  Wild Horse Nine expands to South Bay, Assembly Row, Arsenal Yards after opening at the Somerville, the Coolidge, the Lexington Venue, West Newton, Dedham Community Theatre, Boston Common, Causeway Street, Kendall Square, the Seaport, and Chestnut Hill.
  
  Dune: Part One & Part Two has Imax screenings at Boston Common, South Bay, Assembly Row. There are PG-rated mystery previews at Boston Common, Causeway Street, South Bay, and Assembly Row on Monday. Josephine has a preview at Boston Common on Tuesday; Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping gets Wednesday early-access shows at Boston Common (Imax Laser & Dolby Cinema & XL 3D), Causeway Street (XL), the Seaport (Dolby Atmos HDR), South Bay (Imax Xenon & Dolby Cinema), Assembly Row (including Imax Laser & Dolby Cinema), and Arsenal Yards (CWX).
• It's a busy weekend of new releases at the The Coolidge Corner Theatre beyond I Play Rocky on 35mm. The biggest is likely Club Kid, which has a New York City nightclub promoter (writer/director Jordan Firstman) discovering he has a ten-year-old son and having to take him in; it's also at Boston Common (including XL) and expands to Kendall Square next weekend.
  
  Getting smaller screens and showtimes are Mouse, which is from the makers of the pretty-good Ghostlight and has a teenager suddenly having to reassess her life after losing her best friend, which includes odd closeness with said friend's mother. They also have limited shows of Being Heumann (also at West Newton), with Ruthe Madeley as a disabled woman who launches a protest about the utter lack of accommodations in 1977, with Friday night's sold-out show featuring three members of the cast on-hand.
  
  Freaky Friedkin midnights continue with The Hunted on 35mm Friday and Cruising on Saturday; Rocky Horror also plays Friday (no shadowcast listed, and what's up with this on Friday the 13th instead of the more obvious?). Fantastic Mr. Fox plays a kids' show Saturday morning while Sunday morning's Geothe-Institut film is Four Minus Three, starring Valerie Pachner as a professional clown who loses her entire family in a car accident. Monday's Big Screen Classic is a 35mm print of Michael Clayton with pre-screening seminar led by Mikal J. Gaines; Jeff Rapsis accompanies silent film The Black Pirate on Tuesday; Wednesday's Noirvember selection is I'll Be Seeing You on 35mm film with Kay Lynch doing pre-and-post-film discussion; and Thursday has a "Rewind!" screening of Clue.
• It looks like there are more post-Diwali premieres for Indian movies than things opening the weekend before, with Telugu-language comedy Donga Naa Koduku (Apple Fresh Pond through Monday & all week at Causeway Street), Telugu-language adventure Itllu Arjuna (Fresh Pond through Sunday & all week at Causeway Street), Telugu-language showbiz drama Dark Chocolate (Causeway Street). Two Bengali films play Fresh Pond this weekend, with mystery The Eken: Kerela-e Kurukshetra Saturday afternoon and Bohurupi - The Golden Daku on Sunday afternoon. Ramayana: Rise of a Legend continues at Fresh Pond (Hindi 2D & 3D/English 2D/Telugu 2D Wednesday/Tamil 3D Sunday & 2D Wednesday), Boston Common (Hindi 2D & 3D), Causeway Street (Hindi 2D), and South Bay (Hindi 2D), while Scene gets a second week at Fresh Pond and Boston Common.
  
  Nepali drama Batulo Jun also opens at Fresh Pond.
  
  The latest from Chen Sicheng, Traces of Justice, opens at Boston Common (no show Friday), South Bay, mostly at annoyingly inconvenient times.
  
  Crunchyroll presents anime Dive In Wonderland at Boston Common, the Seaport, Assembly Row on Monday. Godzilla Minus Zero continues at Fresh Pond, Jordan's Furniture (Imax Friday to Sunday), CinemaSalem, Boston Common (including Imax Laser), Causeway Street, the Seaport, South Bay (including Imax Xenon), and Assembly Row (including Imax Laser & XL).
• The Brattle Theatre kicks the weekend off with a 35mm print of The Secret Policeman's Other Ball on Friday afternoon before devoting much of the week to the new restoration of Raise the Red Lantern, one of the classic collaborations between Zhang Yimou and Gong Li.
  
  They also have an afternoon double feature of Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma & Sunset Boulevard on Saturday and Sunday, with an additional evening on Friday.
• The Harvard Film Archive returns to the British Postwar Cinema series this weekend of maybe not quite noir with Temptation Harbor andTiger in the Smoke on Friday, Hell Is a City and Never Let Go on Saturday, and Nowhere to Go on Monday, all but Harbor on 35mm film.
  
  The student Cinematheque show on Saturday is Shunji Iwai's All About Lily Chou-Chou, playing on 35mm film with the short "Identity" in front. They also have a free (but sold out) show of Marie Antoinette, also on film.
• The Museum of Fine Arts hosts the The Boston Turkish Film Festival this weekend, with Night of Blindness Friday night, On the Dry Rock Saturday afternoon, and Yellow Letters Sunday afternoon.
• The Seaport Alamo has three from Almovodar, with All About My Mother on Friday night, Volver Saturday afternoon, The Skin I Live In on Sunday afternoon. There's an AGFADrome mystery screening later on Friday (1980s holiday horror), while The Searchers plays Saturday afternoon, and there's a lights-up crafting show of the original Wallace & Gromi short on Sunday. Absurdist comedy In the Mouth plays Tuesday night, and Married to the Mob on Wednesday.
• The Boston Asian American Film Festival has a sold-out show of Tiger Mom Academy with post-film Q&A at the ArtsEmerson's Paramount Theater on Saturday.
• The Somerville Theatre has live events in the main room for most of the weekend, but finishes the Cult Classics series with a 35mm print of The Big Lebowski on Tuesday before bringing out a 70mm print of Aliens on Wednesday.
• Landmark Kendall Square has Criss Cross for Noirvember on Tuesday, with Robert De Niro in GoodFellas 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 on Saturday.
• It's the last two days of the Boston Jewish Film Festival with a sold-out show of The Wedding Entertainer at the JCC Saturday (some tickets at the door) and Ethan Bloom at the Somerville for closing night on Sunday, both with guests for Q&A.
• The Embassy Cinema has 1930 slapstick this weekend with the Marx Brothers in Animal Crackers on Friday, the Three Stooges in Soup to Nuts (written by Rube Goldberg!) on Saturday, and Buster Keaton in Free and Easy on Sunday.
• The Regent Theatre has documentary Lving Karma on Sunday afternoon.
• The Lexington Venue is open Friday to Sunday and Thursday with Wild Horse Nine, The Only Living Pickpocket in New York, and You Can See Everything. They also screen documentary The Gymnasts of Fisherman Colony on Saturday, Sunday, and Thursday, with producer AmarLohana on hand for the Saturday matinee.
  
  The West Newton Cinema turns a bunch of screens over this weekend, picking up Being Heumann and Fatherland while holding over La Bola Negra (including a "Behind the Screen" show on Sunday), Once Upon a Time in Harlem (no show Friday but including a "Behind the Screen" show on Thursday), The Cat in the Hat, Wild Horse Nine, and You Can See Everything. Wildwood has another one-night return on Saturday. There's a double feature of "Riverdogs" and The Same River Twice on Wednesday (the latest entry, A Bend in the River, will play with filmmakers in person next Friday). Moolaadé plays Thursday evening.
  
  The Dedham Community Theatre holds over The Only Living Pickpocket in New York and Wild Horse Nine.
  
  Cinema Salem has Ebeneezer, Godzilla Minus Zero, The Cat in the Hat, and You Can See Everything from Friday to Monday. Ms. 45 is the Friday Night Light show, with Dark Passage for a Noirvember Wednesday Classic (with Weirdo Wednesday on another screen). On Thursday, the Decibels Film Festival presents NOFX's 40 Years of Fuckin' Up, while documentary American Theater shows on another screen with directors Dylan Frederick and Nicholas Clark there for intros & Q&A.
  
  The preview for Dead of Night looked pretty much like Scream, but apparently focuses more on the adults than the potential teen victims; it plays the Liberty Tree Mall in Danvers, as does a 10th anniversary re-release of The Angry Birds Movie

Might check out a bunch of 40s/50s British films at the HFA, noir and I Play Rocky at the Coolidge once the Green Line is running again, and likely Raise the Red Lantern, Victorian Psycho, and maybe The Skin I Live In in between.. As always, follow along on my Letterboxd page.