Next Week in Tickets: Films playing Boston 4 September 2026 - 10 September 2026

It is oddly satisfying that Adam Wingard and Joe Swanberg, both folks from overlapping indie waves fifteen or twenty years ago, both have new movies in local theaters this weekend.

• Wingard's latest is Onslaught, starring Adria Arjona as a single mom who is probably more capable of defending her trailer park & daughter from a group of brainwashed super-soldiers on a rampage than you might expect, with Dan Stevens, Michael Biehn, and Rebecca Hall among those along for the ride. It's at the Somerville, Fresh Pond, CinemaSalem, Boston Common (including Imax Laser), Causeway Street, Kendall Square, the Seaport, South Bay, and Assembly Row.
  
  Also opening is By Any Means, which pairs Yahya Abdul-Mateen II as an FBI agent and Mark Wahlberg as a sympathetic gangster investigating the murder of civil rights leaders in 1966. It's at Fresh Pond, Boston Common (including Dolby Cinema), Causeway Street, Kendall Square, the Seaport, South Bay, Assembly Row, Arsenal Yards, and Chestnut Hill.
  
  Fall 2: Deadpoint opened Wednesday and rolls into the weekend at Fresh Pond, Boston Common, South Bay, and Assembly Row.
  
  Dreams and Nightmares moves over to Boston Common for those who missed it at the Brattle last week.
  
  Cars gets a 20th Anniversary re-release at the Capitol, Fresh Pond, Boston Common (including RealD 3D), Causeway Street (including RealD 3D), South Bay (including RealD 3D), Assembly Row (including RealD 3D), Arsenal Yards, and Chestnut Hill. Boston Common and the Seaport mark the 60th Anniversary of Star Trek by pairing the films with episodes of the original series - The Motion Picture & "The Changeling" Friday, The Wrath of Khan & "Space Seed" Saturday, The Search for Spock & "Amok Time" Sunday, The Voyage Home & "The City on the Edge of Forever" on Monday, with Boston Common showing Khan and Voyage Tuesday while the "Genesis Trilogy" plays the Seaport that day. Boston Common and South Bay also continue The Hunger Games films with Catching Fire Friday, Mockingjay Part 1 Saturday, Mockingjay Part 2 Sunday, and The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes Monday. The Nutty Professor '96 has 30th anniversary shows at Boston Common and the Seaport on Sunday & Wednesday.
  
  Katy Perry: The Lifetimes Tour Live From Paris has an encore at Kendall Square Saturday. There are mystery previews at Boston Common, Causeway Street, South Bay, Assembly Row Monday. I Want Your Sex plays Causeway Street & South Bay Monday night (random!). Oasis: Don't Look Back in Anger has Imax preview screenings Wednesday at Boston Common, South Bay, and Assembly Row.
• Swanberg is at The Coolidge Corner Theatre for the Friday 7pm screening of The Sun Never Sets, which features Dakota Fanning as a woman whose ex comes back into her life just as her older, divorced boyfriend is looking to reassess the relationship. It also plays West Newton, Boston Common, Causeway Street.
  
  With school back in session, the Coolidge is focusing on essentials for September. That includes midnights, with the monthly showing of Eraserhead on Friday and a 4K restoration of John Waters's Desperate Living on Saturday. Earlier in the day, they feature more "Welcome to the Art House" programs, with Persepolis on 35mm Sunday afternoon, Killer of Sheep Tuesday evening, Chungking Express on Wednesday, and, yes, Welcome to the Dollhouse on 35mm Thursday (in the late "Cult Classic" slot). The annual Labor Day screening of Jaws plays on 35mm Monday, and there's a Cinema Jukebox screening of True Stories on 35mm film Thursday. It's also last call for The Odyssey on 70mm film, with the last show at 3:30pm on Sunday.
• Indian movies opening this week at Apple Fresh Pond include Hindi-language crime flick Mirzapur: The Movie (also at Boston Common), the follow-up to a 3-season TV series; Malayalam-language thriller I'm Game; Telugu-llanguage family drama Sahaa; and Telugu-language romantic comedy Romanchakam. Malayalam-language romance Bethlehem Kudumba Unit adds a screen at Causeway Street to Fresh Pond.
  
  Absolutely bonkers-looking Korean alien-invasion movie Hope, from director Na Hong-jin (The Wailing & The Chaser) opens Wednesday at Fresh Pond, Boston Common (Dolby Cinema preview Monday), Causeway Street (XL preview Monday), Kendall Square, the Seaport, South Bay (Dolby Cinema and a preview Monday), and Assembly Row (including Dolby Cinema and a preview Monday).
  
  One of the all-time great animated films, Akira plays big screens in a new 4K restoration this weekend, opening at the Coolidge, Boston Common, South Bay (including Imax Laser), Assembly Row (including Imax Laser). A new anime from a studio of Ghibli alumni, cocoon - One Summer of Girlhood opens at Boston Common.
  
  Chinese family drama Dear You, which has Zheng Rungqi voyaging to Thailand to find her long-lost grandfather, opens at Boston Common, Causeway Street, and South Bay. Chinese animated adventure All Wishes Come True continues at Causeway Street all week.
• The Brattle Theatre doesn't have Akira but does have several other "Animated Anniversaries", with Spirited Away playing subtitled 35mm all week (and dubbed Saturday/Sunday/Monday/Wednesday/Thursday), Allegro non troppo Friday & Saturday, Osamu Tezuka/Rintaro's Metropolis Sunday & Wednesday, Satoshi Kon's Millennium Actress Monday & Thursday.
• The Harvard Film Archive gets to the centerpiece of The Cinema of Graham Greene this weekend, with their new print of The Third Man showing Friday & Saturday, plus The Fallen Idol later Friday, Brighton Rock earlier Saturday, and John Ford's The Fugitive on Monday, all but the last on 35mm film.
• The Somerville Theatre has what may be their final 70mm screening of The Odyssey Saturday afternoon. They also have the annual screening of Hundreds of Beavers to welcome new college students (and anyone, really) on Saturday evening, re
  
  stored documentary Working Girls with post-film discussion Monday, The Capitol picks up Coyote vs. Acme and Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma.
• The Seaport Alamo has an encore of Butthole Surfers: The Hole Truth and Nothing Butt and John Carpenter's The Fog (separately) on Friday, Neil Breen's Dire Duplicity Saturday & Thursday, and Boyhood with pre-recorded Q&A Monday.
• Landmark Kendall Square has Clueless for "School Days" Tuesdays and To Die For for the Wednesday Nicole Kidman spotlight.

• The Taiwan Film Festival of Boston opts to spread out at multiple venues rather than get crammed into a weekend downtown, opening Thursday at the Somerville Theatre with Hero! HIto!, which follows the national baseball team from being crushed in the World Baseball Classic in 2013 to winning an international championship in 2024
• Just a couple outdoor screenings on Joe's Free Films this week with When Harry Met Sally at TimeOut Market on Monday and The Last Song at Charlestown's Hood Park on Thursday.
• It's also last call for The Odyssey on the Omnimax screen at The Museum of Science, but it shows daily through Monday.
• The Lexington Venue is closed Tuesday, with Coyote vs. Acme, Cookie Queens (no show Wednesday), and Late Fame playing the rest of the week. Wednesday also features documentaries Ghost in the Machine and Mary Oliver: Saved By the Beauty of the World, the latter the monthly movie discussion group meet-up, while Your Attention Please plays Thursday (free but RSVP required).
  
  The West Newton Cinema opens The Sun Never Sets and Bernstein's Wall, continuing Coyote vs. Acme, Late Fame, Tony, Spider-Man, and The Invite. On Sunday, Bruce Vogt accompanies a silent double feature of Buster Keaton's Sherlock Jr. and Ernst Lubitsch's The Doll.
  
  The Dedham Community Theatre opens three indies this week: Late Fame with Willem Dafoe has been kicking around, while Virginia Woolf's Night & Day, starring Haley Bennett as an astronomer trying to duck romance and marriage in 1910 London, is only playing the suburbs and they seem to be the only place showing The Salt Path with Gillian Anderson and Jason Isaacs as a couple walking across southwest England after being evicted.
  
  Cinema Salem has Onslaught, Coyote vs Acme, The Dog Stars, Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma, and Tony from Friday to Monday. The Wednesday Classic is Bullitt with Weirdo Wednesday next door, and this is the week they open the Salem-set Practical Magic 2 on Thursday (as do a lot of other places, but, hey, Salem).
  
  If you can get out to Woburn or the Liberty Tree Mall in Danvers, that's where you can find Tom and Jerry: Forbidden Compass, a Chinese-made animated adventure dubbed into English; I had no idea the duo were relatively popular in the Far East! Coming of age film American Summer, with Steve Guttenberg & Christie Brinkley as a couple recalling the summer they first met, plays at the Liberty Tree Mall, as does Virginia Woolf's Night & Day.

Starting the week with The Sun Never Sets and ending with Hero! Hito! (is this a common cheer in Taiwan and does it sound like the late Japanese emperor there?), with Onslaught, The Fugitive, and as many animated classics as I can make fit in between Updates hopefully on my Letterboxd page.

Next Week in Tickets: Films playing Boston 28 August 2026 - 3 September 2026

Another weird late-August week.

• The biggest release is Coyote vs. Acme, in which Wile E. Coyote finally takes legal action against the Acme Corporation for how everything he's used to catch the Road Runner has failed, which was supposedly written off and meant to be destroyed as a tax dodge along with a couple other Warner Brothers films, but survived to be licensed out to Ketchup and is getting great reviews. It's at the Coolidge, Fresh Pond, the Lexington Venue, West Newton, Boston Common (including Dolby Cinema), Causeway Street, the Seaport, South Bay (including Dolby Cinema), Assembly Row (including Dolby Cinema), and Arsenal Yards.
  
  It's an oddly muted release for Ridley Scott's The Dog Stars, featuring Jacob Erlodri, Margaret Qualley, and Josh Brolin as survivors of a pandemic that caused governmental collapse, getting a lot of theaters but not a lot of excitement; I guess it sounds somewhat generic compared to the much crazier other films releasing this weekend. It's at the Capitol, Fresh Pond, Boston Common (including Imax Laser & Dolby Cinema), CinemaSalem, Kendall Square, Causeway Street, the Seaport, South Bay (including Dolby Cinema), Assembly Row (including Dolby Cinema), Arsenal Yards (including CWX), and Chestnut Hill.
  
  Finding Emily features Spike Fearn as a musician who meets his dream girl but gets the wrong number, and teams with an eccentric student (Angourie Rice) to track her down. It's at the Coolidge, Boston Common, Kendall Square, and the Seaport.
  
  Fantasia selection Buddy takes place in the surreal world of a children's television show, where time has no meaning and the bright orange unicorn at the center turns out to be very unstable. It's at the Coolidge, Boston Common, Causeway Street, and Assembly Row. A Fantasia selection from last year, It Ends, has a carful of college driving a seemingly endless purgatorial road and is more intriguing than that sounds; it opens at Boston Common and the Seaport.
  
  Not to be confused with Nimrods from a couple weeks ago, Idiots stars O'Shea Jackson Junior and Dave Franco as dimwits hired to drive a teenager to rehab only to have everything go wrong. It plays Boston Common and South Bay.
  
  Legend of the White Dragon stars a number of Power Rangers veterans in a more grown-up take on that sort of thing (with Mark Dacascos also in there) and opens at Boston Common.
  
  Fall 2: Deadpoint opens at Boston Common on Wednesday.
  
  Terminator 2 gets a 35th anniversary re-release (and 3D conversion) at Boston Common (including RealD 3D), South Bay (including RealD 3D), Assembly Row (including RealD 3D); AMC responds uncomfortably quickly to a celebrity death to play matinees of Dolly Parton in The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas and Steel Magnolias at Boston Common all week, and I suspect The Rocky Horror Picture Show may have more folks than usual at its regular Saturday night show. The Hunger Games plays Boston Common and South Bay Thursday.
  
  Concert film GHOST: 2 Big to Rig plays Boston Common Saturday, with Katy Perry: The Lifetimes Tour Live From Paris at Boston Common (Imax Laser) Tuesday and Kendall Square Thursday; documentary Sara Bareilles: Good Grief plays Boston Common Wednesday. There are mystery previews at Boston Common, Causeway Street, South Bay, and Assembly Row on Monday, and a preview of The Uprising at South Bay and Assembly Row Thursday night that includes a livestreamed Q&A with director Paul Greengrass and star Andrew Garfield.
• The big Indian movie this week is Toxic: A Fairy Tale for Adults, which plays Apple Fresh Pond in Kannada (its primary language), Hindi, and Telugu; at Boston Common in Telugu; and at Causeway Street in Telugu. Also opening is Tamil-language romance Hi! at Fresh Pond. Gujarati-language family comedy Tom & Cherry plays Fresh Pond Sunday afternoon; Telugu-language action flick Panjaa has a 15th-anniversary show there on Tuesday. Held over are Malayalam-language romance Bethlehem Kudumba Unit (Fresh Pond), Telugu-language drama Irumudi (Fresh Pond & Boston Common).
  
  Colony, the new Korean biohorror film by Train to Busan writer/director Yeon Sang-ho opens at Boston Common, South Bay, Assembly Row; I saw it at Fantasia and it's good fun; bummer it's mostly playing late shows.
  
  Vietnamese thriller Madame in Saigon opens at Causeway Street (early matinees), South Bay.
  
  Chinese animated adventure All Wishes Come True has a full slate of shows at Causeway Street all week.
  
  Anime drama The Last Blossom plays Boston Common Sunday & Monday.
• The Brattle Theatre has Cabaret on 35mm for the Friday Film Matinee. A new 4K Restoration of The Piano plays through Monday, as does Dreams in Nightmares, the new film from Test Pattern director Shatara Michelle Ford following a group of queer Black friends on a road trip.
  
  The "Keep Watching the Skies" finale on Monday & Tuesday is a double feature of Invaders from Mars (restored!) & Invasion of the Body Snatchers '56 (35mm!), with TV Goes to the Movies ending Wednesday with Good Night, and Good Luck on 35mm. The theater teams with Lovestruck (the romance bookshop a few doors down) for Twilight on Thursday before wrapping the Carolco retrospective that night with Total Recall
• The Harvard Film Archive spends another weekend focusing on The Cinema of Graham Greene: The Heart of the Matter Friday, Our Man in Havana and The Stranger's Hand Saturday (separate admission), and Ministry of Fear Sunday afternoon, and Went the Day Well? on Monday. All are projected from 35mm film except The Heart of the Matter, which is a 16mm print.
• The Somerville Theatre has Manhunter: The Final Cut in the main auditorium on Friday & Saturday, with Bound playing there on 35mm film as a Midnight Special on Saturday. Between those and some live shows in that room, 70mm screenings of The Odyssey are not an everyday occurrence, so check before you go if that's a priority.
  
  The Capitol has their monthly Disasterpiece Theatre show on Monday.
• The Seaport Alamo has their Kids' Camp show of the season with Moonrise Kingdom Friday afternoon (I feel like it's kind of diminished because there really aren't young families in that trendy neighborhood). A couple things initially scheduled for just a show or two got a fair amount more put on when the week's listings came out, with Little Shop of Horrors playing Saturday/Monday/Tuesday/Wednesday and Mothra vs. Godzilla with at least one show every day from Saturday to Wednesday. There's a movie party for Coppola's The Outsiders: The Complete Novel Sunday afternoon, and Butthole Surfers: The Hole Truth and Nothing Butt on Wednesday.
• Formats being played at The Coolidge Corner Theatre run the gamut: The Odyssey plays its last shows there on 70mm film through Monday, while the midnight Camp Coolidge show on Friday night is a mystery screening of a summer camp slasher sequel on VHS, while Saturday night's Sleepaway Camp II: Unhappy Campers is on 35mm film.
  
  Sunday afternoon, they have a 35mm "Malkovich, Makovich, Malkovich" triple feature including In the Line of Fire, Dangerous Liaisons, & Being John Malkovich. Monday's Big Screen Classic is a 35mm presentation of Top Hat with a seminar led by choreographer Dr. Ilya Vidrin. Tuesday features a special-screening of documentary The Cycle of Life with subjects Lotta Von Schedvin and P.K. Mahanandia on-hand for a Q&A afterward, and also kicks off September's "Welcome to the Art House" series of classic flicks (for the new students!) with Ozu's Tokyo Story on 35mm film, with a digital restoration of Breathless on Wednesday. Bicycle Thieves plays Thursday with a pre-film seminar by Emerson faculty member Andre Puca.
• The Embassy Cinema in Waltham hosts the Mass Honors FIlm Festival on Saturday & Sunday, intending to spotlight performing arts on film. Saturday features a number of short film and music video programs, capped by Michael at 4pm (what is it with the Embassy and that movie?), while Saturday feature's Buster Keaton's The General, the Marx Brothers' Animal Crackers, 1922 short Dans Macabre, Splinter (a drama starring Debbie Allen with producer Isaac Carlen on hand for a Q&A), and The Shadow's Edge (one of Jackie Chan's better recent movies which they're calling a Boston Premiere but look at that link from a year ago).
• Landmark Kendall Square starts new weekly rep series for September, with "School Days" Tuesdays kicking off with Ferris Bueller's Day Off and a spotlight on Sandra Bullock & Nicole Kidman on Wednesday with Demolition Man.
• The Regent Theatre in Arlington has the rest of the Lonely Seal Film, Screenplay, and Music Festival from Friday to Saturday, scheduled very tight with numerous short blocks, the latest Spike & Mike animation block (supposedly the first one in the Boston area for 18 years), and a handful of features.
• Outdoor screenings via Joe's Free Films (and elsewhere) this week show Legally Blonde at Aeronaut Brewing on Saturday, Moana (not sure which) at TimeOut Market on Monday, and The Wiz at the MIT Open Space Thursday (rescheduled for expected weather happening).
• The Museum of Science has The Odyssey on the Omnimax Screen Friday, Wednesday, and Thursday, with the long Labor Day weekend after its last set of shows before a "sci-fi super-sized" series takes over this fall.
• The Lexington Venue is open Friday to Sunday and Thursday with Coyote vs. Acme and Tony. Thursday also has a screening of The Last Picture Shows, a documentary on the disappearing small-town theaters in the American West.
  
  The West Newton Cinema opens Coyote vs. Acme and Late Fame, holding over Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma, Tony, PAW Patrol, Spider-Man, and The Invite. There's a Thursday "Behind the Screen" showing of documentary Homegrown with filmmakers and experts on hand for post-film discussion; the film was initially called "The Trump Supporters" and follows them in the months leading up to the attack on the Capitol.
  
  The Dedham Community Theatre holds over The Rivals of Amziah King and The Odyssey for their last weekends. Good on you, Dedham, for supporting Rivals!
  
  Cinema Salem has The Dog Stars, Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma, and Tony from Friday to Monday. The Friday Night Light show is A Girls Walks Home Alone at Night, while Friday & Saturday feature their first Kaiju Fest with Saturday offering Mothra, Gamera vs. Jiger, Attack of the 50 Foot Woman, tokusatsu episodes, Destroy All Monsters, and War of the Gargantuas (the last on VHS); Sunday features Pacific Rim, Gamera the Brave, Godzilla vs. Destroyah, and Godzilla 2000. The Wednesday Classic is Bonnie and Clyde (no Weirdo Wednesday?) and they open the Salem-set Practical Magic 2 on Thursday (as do a lot of other places, but, hey, Salem).

Looking forward to finally/actually seeing Coyote vs. Acme and might check out a couple of the other new releases, trying to fit in some Graham Greene and stragglers Camp Miasma and Tony. Pretty much everything from Fantasia is recommended! Updates on my Letterboxd page as I see 'em.

Next Week in Tickets: Films playing Boston 14 August 2026 - 20 August 2026

With the big July releases finally starting to lose a little steam, it's starting to look like a proper August at the movies, with summer-y looking things that the studios didn't feel confident opening on big weekends, things that could bridge the summer fun/fall prestige seasons, and three separate anniversary re-releases.

• The End of Oak Street looks like it could be big, with its high concept throwing a neighborhood out of its environment and into the age of dinosaurs (or something crazier) and leaving a family headed by Anne Hathaway & Ewan McGregor in the latest from David Robert Mitchell. It's at The Capitol Theatre, Fresh Pond, West Newton, CinemaSalem, Boston Common, Causeway Street, Kendall Square, the Seaport, South Bay, Assembly Row (including Imax Laser), and Arsenal Yards.
  
  There are more kid-friendly dinosaurs in PAW Patrol: The Dino Movie, where the pups from the Nickelodeon cartoon franchise encounter the beasts on a mysterious island. It's at the Capitol, Fresh Pond, West Newton, Boston Common, Causeway Street, Assembly Row, Arsenal Yards, and Chestnut Hill.
  
  The Rivals of Amziah King has been kicking around since last year but seems well-regarded, starring Matthew McConaughey as a beekeeper whose hive is stolen and must work with his foster daughter (Angelina LookingGlass) to steal it back, I think from Kurt Russell. It's at Boston Common, Kendall Square, the Seaport, South Bay, Assembly Row, and Dedham Community Theatre.
  
  Kristen Stewart and Alia Shawkat play The Wrong Girls in a stoner comedy featuring appearances from everybody between Seth Rogen and Geena Davis, with LaKeith Stanfield's presence assuring me that it meets a certain minimum standard of weird. It's at Boston Common, the Seaport, and CinemaSalem.
  
  Nimrods (not to be confused with Idiots) opens at Boston Common and South Bay with an unknown band road-tripping cross-country to open for Green Day. The (more famous) band produces and there's some interesting folks in the cast.
  
  Tony looks like it might be good enough to make it to fall-movie season through word of mouth; it stars Dominic Sessa as a young Anthony Bourdain at loose ends in Provincetown at the age of 19, taking a job in a kitchen that will change the direction of his life. Antonio Banderas co-stars as the chef who would become his mentor. It's at the Coolidge, Boston Common, and the Seaport (including Dolby Atmos); it expands to Causeway Street and the Kendall (and likely other spots) next weekend.
  
  The trailer for The Brink of War is weird; the Angel Studios production stars Jeff Daniels as Ronald Reagan and Jared Harris as Mikhail Gorbachev, in distracting makeup, plus J.K. Simmons as George Schultz, basically coming off as J.K. Simmons. It's at Fresh Pond, Boston Common, Causeway Street, and South Bay. "Inspirational" musician story Elijah Peel plays Boston Common.
  
  Six: The Musical (a presentation of the stage show rather than an adaptation) plays the Lexington Venue (Saturday/Sunday/Wednesday), West Newton (Saturday/Sunday/Wednesday), Boston Common, Causeway Street, the Seaport, South Bay, and Assembly Row. Concert film Katseye: Wild Hearts has a weekend run at Boston Common and Assembly Row through Sunday.
  
  Wet Hot American Summer gets a 25th Anniversary re-release at West Newton (through Monday), Boston Common, the Seaport, and Arsenal Yards. There are 10th anniversary shows of La La Land in Dolby Cinema at Boston Common, South Bay, Assembly Row on Sunday through Wednesday (not every day at every site). Point Break gets anniversary shows at Boston Common on Sunday & Wednesday. Tuesday is the day that the original Texas Chain Saw Massacre takes place, and as such there are special screenings at Boston Common, South Bay, and Assembly Row.
• Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma opens at The Coolidge Corner Theatre and Boston Common, with the Coolidge getting a 35mm print when it's playing on screen 2 (check showtimes). The latest by Jane Schoenbrun is another in her series of looks at media obsession, with Hannah Einbinder as a young filmmaker charged with rebooting a slasher franchise and Gillian Anderson as the original star who has been consumed by the movie.
  
  Camp Coolidge midnights this weekend include a secret "Wicked VHS" screening on Friday and Sleepaway Camp on Saturday. The Coolidge also has their annual The Big Lebowski party on Monday, midsummer stick-up screenings of Heat on Tuesday and To Catch a Thief on Wednesday, and a "Rewind!" show of Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery on Thursday.
• Plenty of Indian cinema at Apple Fresh Pond and elsewhere this weekend. Vishwanath & Sons is a Tamil-language film starring Suriya as a world-class "shooter" facing a life change as age and family duties plus a new romance catch up with him; it's in Tamil at Fresh Pond, Boston Common, Causeway Street; with select Telugu-language screenings at Fresh Pond. Hindi-language historical action picture Batwara 1947 plays Fresh Pond, Boston Common; 20-years-later Hindi-language crime sequel Awarapan 2 plays Fresh Pond; Agadha is a Telugu-language fantasy thriller playing late at Fresh Pond. Tamil-language crime story DC continues at Causeway Street.
  
  Train to Busan is back for its 10th anniversary at Boston Common (and not a bad way to build excitement for the director's Colony in a week or two). The August Crunchyroll anime night show on Monday is Korean high-school drama Your Letter, playing at Boston Common, the Seaport, Assembly Row.
  
  Also celebrating ten years is a Makoto Shinkai's breakout anime Your Name, returning remastered at Boston Common. The Samurai and the Prisoner continues at the Coolidge.

• The Somerville Theatre is starting to move The Odyssey downstairs to accommodate live shows & rep and probably give projectionist David Kornfeld a bit of a break, so check if the 70mm print is important to you. Among the rep is Chopping Mall for the Saturday midnight special, Jeff Rapsis accompanying Rudolph Valentino is The Son of the Sheik on Sunday, The Last Picture Shows with director Rustin Thompson on hand later Sunday, restored documentary Hell's Highway: The True Story of Highway Safety Films Monday & Tuesday, and a new 35mm print of The Third Man on Wednesday & Thursday.
  
  
• The Brattle Theatre has a 35mm IB Technicolor print of Oliver! for the Friday Film Matinee, and then celebrates Alfred Hitchcock's birthday with double features: Strangers on a Train & Family Plot (his final film) are both on 35mm Friday and Saturday, while Sunday pairs a 35mm print of Vertigo with Brian De Palma's homage Obsession.
  
  The vertical calendar continues to offer alien encounters to start the week, with a twin bill of Forbidden Planet & This Island Earth on Monday and The Quatermass Xperiment & It! The Terror from Beyond Space on Tuesday. The "TV Goes to the Movies" shows on Wednesday are The Insider in the afternoon & evening and a late-ish show of The Howling.
• The Seaport Alamo has late shows of Gregg Akari's Mysterious Skin Friday/Saturday/Wednesday/Tuesday, and one of Gail Daughtry and the Celebrity Sex Pass on Saturday in hopes that the Wet Hot American Summer rerelease has folks wondering what its makers are up to now. Jane Campion's The Piano plays on Sunday and Elaine May's A New Leaf on Tuesday, with Pure Scum for Weird Wednesday and Phantom of the Paradise for De Palma Summer on Thursday.
• The Museum of Fine Arts continues their Boston French Film Festival with The Money Maker (Friday night), The Girl in the Snow (Saturday morning), A Private Life (sold out Saturday afternoon), Little Amélie or the Character of Rain (Sunday morning), and Whatever It Takes (Sunday afternoon).
• Landmark Kendall Square has Bound on Tuesday for "Art House Essentials" (dang, is it that now?) and Ridley Scott's Blade Runner (the final cut) on Wednesday for "Great Scotts".
• Outdoor screenings via Joe's Free Films (and elsewhere) this week show The Straight Story at the MIT Open Space, Wicked at CambridgeSide, and The Super Mario Galaxy Movie at the Hatch Shell on Friday; Zoolander at Aeronaut Brewing on Saturday, Zootopia 2 at TimeOut Market on Monday; Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl at the Allston Speedway (via the Coolidge) on Wednesday, and Cars at the Charlestown Hood Park on Thursday.
• The Museum of Science has The Odyssey on the Omnimax Screen at 7pm Friday & Saturday.
• The Lexington Venue is open all week but Monday with Spider-Man, Mary Oliver: Saved by the Beauty of the World, Wild Inside (no show Wednesday), and HadesTown (no show Tuesday/Wednesday), and Six: The Musical (no show Friday/Tuesday/Thursday).
  
  The West Newton Cinema opens PAW Patrol and The End of Oak Street, holding over Wild Inside, Spider-Man, The Odyssey, The Invite, and Hadestown. Wet Hot American Summer plays through Monday, while Six: The Musical plays Saturday/Sunday/Wednesday.
  
  The Dedham Community Theatre opens The Rivals of Amziah King with The Odyssey ongoing.
  
  Cinema Salem has The End of Oak Street, The Wrong Girls,Spider-Man, and The Odyssey Friday to Monday. Friday's Night Light show is Park Chan-wook's Lady Vengeance, and Saturday features both Wretched Lydia hosting Demons 2 and Teseracte Players playing along with Rocky Horror (Full Body Cast, as always, are at Boston Common), while Sunday has Josie and the Pussycats plus a concert with five local bands performing the soundtrack. The Wednesday Classic is La Strada , with Weirdo Wednesday down the hall.
  
  Horror-comedy Namaslay, parodying the western appropriation of yoga, opens at the Liberty Tree Mall in Danvers.

Been easy to stay in lately, but The End of Oak Street, Tony, Rivals of Amziah King, The Wrong Girls, and 35mm Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma is a potentially packed week before you even get to the Hitchcock and good halves of the alien-invasion double features or the Your Name and Train to Busan reissues (plus it's probably last call for Toy Story 5 and I'm not sure whether it's more odd or apt that I haven't seen that yet). Updates on my Letterboxd page, hopefully.

Next Week in Tickets: Films playing Boston 31 July 2026 - 6 August 2026

Back home this week, Brattle back open, and the blockbuster one-two meaning Fantasia hasn't go tme too enormously far behind!

• The big opening is Spider-Man: Brand New Day, with Destin Daniel Cretton taking the reins for the Tom Holland series which sees all Peter Parker's friends no longer aware of his dual identity and changes in his powers, leading to the question of whether, with one of the greatest rogue's galleries in comics, Marvel is reduced to using Morlun in a Spider movie. It gets all the big screens that aren't playing The Odyssey, opening at the Capitol, Apple Fresh Pond(including 3D), West Newton, CinemaSalem, Boston Common (including Dolby Cinema 2D & XL 2D & RealD 3D), Causeway Street (including XL 2D & RealD 3D), Kendall Square, the Seaport (including Dolby Atmos), South Bay (including Dolby Cinema 2D & RealD 3D), Assembly Row (including Dolby Cinema 2D & RealD 3D), Arsenal Yards (including CWX), and Chestnut Hill.
  
  Gregg Akari's newest, I Want Your Sex, opens wider than his films often do, playing the Coolidge, Fresh Pond, Boston Common, and the Seaport. It has a young man (Cooper Hoffman) finding his conventional life turned upside down after taking a job for a sexually provocative influencer (Olivia Wilde).
  
  Hadestown: The Musical is extended at West Newton, Boston Common, Causeway Street, the Seaport, South Bay, and Assembly Row. K-Pop concert film Ateez: Light the Way plays Boston Common on Thursday.
  
  Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory plays Boston Common Sunday & Wednesday, and Boyhood plays Boston Common on Tuesday. There are mystery (horror) previews at Boston Common, Causeway Street, the Seaport, and Assembly Row on Monday. South Bay has Monday & Wednesday matinees of The SpongeBob Movie: Search for SquarePants. Some of the Thursday preview shows at South Bay & Assembly Row for Super Troopers 3 include "Fan Event" Q&As.
• While The Odyssey continues to monopolize screen #1, The Coolidge Corner Theatre welcomes back a couple movies whose directors recently stopped by for previews. First up is Sheep in the Box, the new entry from Hirozaku Kore-eda, which has a grieving couple receive a doppelganger of their son. It also plays Dedham Community Theatre and Boston Common, expanding to the Seaport next week.
  
  The Coolidge also gets two by Ross McElwee, with the new restoration of his film Sherman's March playing matinees and his new one, Remake, in the evenings. The first chronicles how an attempt to make a documentary about the titular event was derailed by his family trying to set him up, while the latter is re-examining the last years of his recently-deceased son.
  
  At midnight, the Coolidge wraps alien invasion month with a 35mm print of I Come in Peace Friday night and begins Camp Coolidge August with In a Violent Nature on Saturday. Monday's Big Screen Classic is A Streetcar Named Desire; and there's a special screening of Flaco-the-owl documentary Wild Inside with director Penny Lane on hand Tuesday. Tuesday also has the "Midsummer Stick-Ups" series begin with a 35mm print of Bottle Rocket, followed by Le Cercle Rouge on Wednesday. Thursday's Cinema Jukebox show is a 35mm print of 24 Hour Party People.
• The Somerville Theatre opens independent films Bouchra (about a Moroccan expat in New York coming out to her mother in Casablanca) and Barrio Triste (found-footage coming-of-age in 1987 Columbia). The Odyssey continues in 70mm and the big-film Saturday midnight special is The Doors.
  
  In addition to Spider-Man The Capitol Theatre picks up Mary Oliver: Saved By the Beauty of the World.
• The Brattle Theatre reopens with updated seating (mostly the same but now staggered so you're not directly behind someone's big head), starting things off with a 35mm IB Technicolor print of West Side Story '61 for the Friday Film Matinee! After that, they have a new 4K restoration of Elaine May's Mikey and Nicky and the local premiere of Alex Cox's Dead Souls, both running through Monday. There's also a special bonus matinee of Cox's Straight to Hell on Saturday.
  
  On Sunday, Fiddlehead pairs a screening of their new video Baby I'll Change with a Q&A and Good Will Hunting, although it's already sold out. The workweek offers a belated start to the summer vertical schedule: Mondays & Tuesdays feature "Aliens in the 1950s", with this week's entries classic versions of The Day The Earth Stood Still & The Thing from Another World. Wednesday is "TV Goes to the Movies", with a free Elements of Cinema screening of Network in between showings of Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy that you've got to pay for. Thursdays will offer both Éric Rohmer's Six Moral Tales - this week's are La Collectionneuse & The Bakery Girl of Monceau, with short "Suzanne's Career" playing before the second - and "When Carolco Was King", kicking off with a 35mm late show of First Blood.
• The Seaport Alamo has "Kids Camp" matinees of Paddington 2 Friday & Monday. They also screen I Saw the TV Glow on Sunday/Monday/Wednesday and We're All Going to the World's Fair on Tuesday & Wednesday, with a preview of director Jane Schoenbrun's latest Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma with livestreamed Q&A on Monday night. One Night Only gets a similar preview-with-Q&A on Sunday, and the De Palma series ends with The Untouchables Tuesday & Thursday night.
• The Museum of Fine Arts has another weekend of their Boston French Film Festival with Leave One Day (Friday night), Whatever it Takes (Saturday morning), The Girl in the Snow (sold out Saturday afternoon) and Colors of Time (sold out Sunday afternoon.
• In addition to the usual Imax nature docs, The New England Aquarium shows Jaws on Saturday night (hopefully from an actual Imax source rather than what they used last year).
• The Regent Theatre screens Jesus Christ Superstar on Sunday with star Ted Neeley and castmates Kurt Yaghjian & Larry Marshall in person; it's a farewell tour for Neeley, who played the part on stage and appeared with the film many times in the past 50 years.
• Landmark Kendall Square starts new monthly rep, with La Dolce Vita on Tuesday for "Art House Essentials" and Tony Scott's The Hunger on Wednesday ("Great Scotts").
• Outdoor screenings via Joe's Free Films this week show It Happened One Night at the MIT Open Space, Lilo & Stitch at the Hatch Shell, and TV-movie Good Against Evil at Somerville's Edward L. Leathers Park ("Celluloid Confidential) on Friday; The Parent Trap at TimeOut Market on Monday; and The Wiz at Seven Hills Park in Somerville on Thursday. Inside, Goethe-Institut shows The Goldfish on Wednesday (RSVP required)
• The Museum of Science has The Odyssey on the Omnimax Screen at 7pm Friday & Saturday.
• The Lexington Venue is open all week but Monday with Spider-Man and The Odyssey. Documentary No Country for Mothers plays free on Wednesday with RSVP.
  
  The West Newton Cinema opens the Floaters, a comedy about a musician who takes a job at the summer camp she attended as a kid, as well as Spider-Man, continuing Reading Lolita in Tehran, The Odyssey, The Invite, Minions & Monsters, The Sheep Detectives, and Hadestown.
  
  The Dedham Community Theatre opens Sheep in the Box with The Invite continuing.
  
  Cinema Salem has Spider-Man, The Invite, >Rose of Nevada, and The Odyssey Friday to Monday. The Wednesday Classic is Bringing Up Baby, with Weirdo Wednesday down the hall.

The Fantasia movie binge ends Sunday, and then I'll probably decompress before heading home Tuesday night (follow that on my Letterboxd page!), though I'm tempted to catch The Odyssey on Genuine Film Imax while it's closer to me than Providence. We'll see if I'm up for Le Cercle Rouge on Wednesday and finally catching up with some other stuff Thursday!

Next Week in Tickets: Films playing Boston 24 July 2026 - 30 July 2026

Still out of town, but nobody's messing with The Odyssey.

• Fantasia opening night film Her Private Hell opens at Kendall Square. Nicolas Winding Refn's first film in years, it stars Sophie Thatcher as an actress expected to reconcile with her best-friend-turned-stepmom while making a movie, after she and another costar witness a murder, in a heightened future. Looks amazing, script's a mess. It's at Boston Common, Causeway Street, Kendall Square, the Seaport, South Bay, and Assembly Row.
  
  Slick-looking crime drama Motor City stars Alan Ritchson as a man framed so that a gangster (Ben Foster) can woo his girl (Shailene Woodley) while he's in prison, plotting revenge. It's at Fresh Pond, Boston Common, and South Bay.
  
  After extended festival/international releases, the adaptation of Azar Nafsi's memoir Reading Lolita in Tehran opens at the Somerville, West Newton, and Boston Common.
  
  Comedy Bad Counselors plays Boston Common and Assembly Row for a limited run. It has two fraternity jerks laying low working as counselors in a very Christian summer camp after some hijinks go awry. There's also Haunted Heist, with director Rel Howry (when did he stop being Lil?) teaming with friends Andrew "King Bach" Bachelor, Tiffany Haddish, and Karous Miller to try to rob a house full of ghosts at Boston Common.
  
  Pinocchio: Unstrung gets a more complete release than the typical public domain kids' story turned horror movie, playing the full week at Boston Common. Robert Englund voices Jiminy Cricket.
  
  Fashion documentary Brunello: The Gracious Visionary gets a one-late-afternoon-show-a-day run at Fresh Pond.
  
  The Hadestown: The Musical run continues through Monday at the Lexington Venue, West Newton, Boston Common (through Wednesday), Causeway Street (through Wednesday), the Kendall, the Seaport (through Wednesday), South Bay (through Thursday afternoon), and Assembly Row (through Wednesday). Musical doc WHAM! 10 Days in China plays Boston Common on Tuesday.
  
  The Fifth Element plays Boston Common Sunday & Monday; The Bad Guys 2 plays kids' matinees at South Bay Monday & Wednesday. There are mystery previews at Boston Common, Causeway Street, the Seaport, South Bay, and Assembly Row on Monday. Spider-Man: Brand New Day has early access Dolby Cinema shows on Wednesday at Boston Common, South Bay, Assembly Row, plus "Fan Event" Dolby Cinema shows on Thursday at the same AMCs. Thriller Above and Below gets one night at Boston Common on Wednesday.
• South Asia only seems to be giving The Odyssey a few days, with Jana Nayagan opening at Apple Fresh Pond, Boston Common, and Causeway Street earlier in the week. There's also Telugu-language romance Chennai Love Story and Nepali drama Gauthali, boith at Fresh Pond.
• The Capitol Theatre picks up Night Nurse after it's pushed off downtown screens, and has A League of Their Own for "Play Ball!" on Friday. The monthly Disasterpiece Theatre night is Monday.
  
  The Somerville Theatre has another 70mm Saturday midnight special with Howard the Duck. There's also a "Silents, Please!" screening of Chang: A Drama of the Wilderness, with Jeff Rapsis downstairs on screen #3 because nothing's bumping The Odyssey in 70mm upstairs.
• The Coolidge Corner Theatre is still selling out screen #1 for The Odyssey. Alien invasion midnights are Communion on Friday and Invasion of the Body Snatchers '78 on Saturday, with The Room also playing on Friday. Marilyn Monroe movies this week are Gentlemen Prefer Blondes Sunday afternoon, The Prince and the Showgirl on Tuesday evening, and The Misfits Wednesday. Thursday is packed, with a sold-out screening of Sherman's March with director Ross McElwee on hand, a Rewind! Screening of The Mask, and then a 35mm presentation of Clash of the Titans '81 for the 9:30pm Cult Classic.
• The Seaport Alamo has "Kids Camp" matinees of Arco Friday & Monday. Music doc NOFX: 40 Years of Fuckin' Up plays Saturday. Kurosawa's Rashomon plays Sunday, Monday, and Wednesday, with many shows relatively late, which is kind of unusual; they're also running the AGFA mystery movie late Monday, though I suppose that could involve livestreamed guests in L.A. as much as trying to figure out when they can get people to come. De Palma features are Snake Eyes on Tuesday and Casualties of War on Wednesday; Wednesday also features The Thing Called Love and an Elf Christmas-in-July movie party.
• The Museum of Fine Arts kicks off their annual Boston French Film Festival with sold-out screenings of Bazaar (Le crime du 3e étage) (Friday night) and Colors of Time (Saturday morning), but there are still tickets for Promised Sky Saturday afternoon and Nino Sunday afternoon, with the festival running into late August.
• Landmark Kendall Square has Jurassic Park on Tuesday for the Big Screen/Amblin summer movie and The Dark Night Rises on Wednesday for Christopher Nolan Wednesdays.
• Remember, The Brattle Theatre is closed for renovations, but will re-open with the belated vertical schedule next weekend!
• Outdoor screenings via Joe's Free Films this week show Space Jam at the MIT Open Space and Zootopia 2 at the Hatch Shell on Friday; Almost Famous at TimeOut Market on Monday; and Wayne's World at Seven Hills Park in Somerville on Thursday.
• The Museum of Science has The Odyssey on the giant screen at 7pm Friday & Saturday, and folks can RSVP to see the animated How to Train Your Dragon on Saturday as part of Disability Pride month, with Facing the Falls playing a free show including a conversation with subject Cara Yar Khan on Wednesday (free with RSVP).
• The Lexington Venue is open all week but Tuesday with Hadestown (through Monday), Tuner (no shows Monday/Thursday), and The Odyssey.
  
  The West Newton Cinema opens Reading Lolita in Tehran, keeping The Odyssey, Rose of Nevada, Moana, The Invite, Minions & Monsters, and The Sheep Detectives. Hadestown plays through Monday.
  
  The Dedham Community Theatre opens Cielo, which played Fantasia last year and is absolutely gorgeous, with The Invite continuing.
  
  Cinema Salem picks up The Invite and Rose of Nevada to play with The Odyssey and Toy Story 5 from Friday to Monday. Friday's Night LIght show is The Garbage Pail Kids Movie, while The Searchers plays with post-film discussion Saturday afternoon. The Wednesday Classic is On the Waterfront, with Weirdo Wednesday next door; a 50th Anniversary screening of Network plays for Arthouse Theater Day on Thursday.

Sorry if I missed anything, as I'm in Montreal for another week and a half. Definitely follow my Letterboxd page for Fantasia Festival updates, because I'm already several days behind on the blog!.

Next Week in Tickets: Films playing Boston 17 July 2026 - 23 July 2026

I'm out of town so this is obviously my second priority, but the studios have fortunately made it pretty easy on me!

• The big opening is The Odyssey, Christopher Nolan's star-studded version of the classic adventure, featuring Matt Damon as Odysseus and Anne Hathaway as Penelope, plus seemingly half of Hollywood. Shot entirely on Imax film, it's getting most if not all of the premium screens in town plus a bunch of others, playing the Coolidge (70mm), the Somerville (70mm), Jordan's Furniture (Imax Friday-Sunday), West Newton, CinemaSalem, Boston Common (including 70mm & Imax Laser & Dolby Cinema & XL), Causeway Street (including XL), Kendall Square, the Seaport (including Dolby Atmos), South Bay (including Imax Xenon & Dolby Cinema), Assembly Row (including Imax Laser & Dolby Cinema), Arsenal Yards (including CWX), and Chestnut Hill.
  
  Assembly Row has Telemundo's coverage of the World Cup on Saturday & Sunday. Mystery previews at Boston Common, Causeway Street, Kendall Square, South Bay, Assembly Row on Monday. South Bay has kids' matinees of Sonic the Hedgehog 3 Monday & Wednesday. Hadestown: The Musical opens at the Lexington Venue, West Newton, Boston Common, Causeway Street, the Kendall, the Seaport, South Bay, Assembly Row for a five-night run starting Thursday. Concert film Sia: Nostalgic for the Present and Summer Tour, a documentary about following Dead and Company's final tour, also play Boston Common on Thursday.
• The Odyssey gets the main screen, but The Coolidge Corner Theatre also opens Mary Oliver: Saved by the Beauty of the World, a documentary about the Cape Cod-based poet.
  
  On top of that, the Coolidge continues alien-invasion midnights with a 35mm print of Mars Attacks! on Friday plus The Faculty on Saturday. The Marilyn Monroe Centennial celebration continues with Some Like It Hot on Sunday afternoon, with Appalachian State University Professor Kyle Stevens offering a seminar beforehand, Niagara on Tuesday, and The Asphalt Jungle on Wednesday. There's a Panorama show of documentary State of Firsts on Monday with filmmaker Chase Joynt joining remotely afterward. Sold out previews include an outdoor show of Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma on Saturday and Sheep in the Box with director Hirozaku Kore-eda on hand Wednesday (just reminding you if you've got your tickets already).
• Homer crowds a lot out, so Apple Fresh Pond just has Telugu-language thriller Vadhala opening Friday for Indian films, while Telugu-language romantic comedy Oh..! Sukumari opens at Boston Common and Causeway Street. Tamil-language thriller Jana Nayagan opens at Fresh Pond Wednesday (Thursday at Causeway Street). Lenin continues at Boston Common.
  
  There's a Crunchyroll Anime Nights presentation of Mob Psycho 100 at Boston Common, the Seaport, and Assembly Row on Monday. There's a mini-30th anniversary Evangelion series, with Death (True)² & Rebirth playing Boston Common Tuesday and The End of Evangelion on Wednesday.
• After The Brattle Theatre starts the weekend with a 35mm print of Jaws to make up the ones canceled by heat a couple weeks ago. After that, it's back to The Stanton Rule: A Harry Dean Stanton Centennial with Death Watch & Christine Friday; a matinee of The Last Temptation of Christ on Saturday; a double feature of Escape From New York & Alien Saturday & Monday; and a double feature of Paris, Texas and Pretty in Pink on Sunday. Starting Tuesday, they're closed to replace the seats for 10 days, which coincides nicely with the Red Line being shut down between Alewife and Park Street.
• The Capitol Theatre has Fear Strikes Out, starring Anthony Perkins as Red Sox outfielder Jimmy Piersall, for "Play Ball!" on Friday.
  
  For at least the first few weeks of their run of The Odyssey, The Somerville Theatre will be using the big projector for the Saturday midnight special with The Dark Crystal on 70mm film Saturday night..
• The Seaport Alamo has "Kids Camp" matinees of Flow Friday & Monday, and the 2004 The Phantom of the Opera Sunday/Tuesday/Wednesday Lena Dunham's Tiny Furniture and Sally Potter's Orlando play separately on Monday, and there's a Movie Party show of Steel Magnolias on Wednesday.
• WBUR's CitySpace screens The Thomas Crown Affair '68 with writers Sean Burns & Hank Phillippi Ryan discussing the film afterward on Friday night as part of their "Set in Boston" series.
• Landmark Kendall Square has Back to the Future. on Tuesday for the Big Screen/Amblin summer movie and The Dark Night on Wednesday for Christopher Nolan Wednesdays.
• Hopefully it's not too smokey for outdoor screenings this week, with Joe's Free Films and others showing The Muppet Movie at the MIT Open Space, Angry Birds 2 at CambridgeSide, and The Minecraft Movie at the Hatch Shell on Friday; Zootopia 2 at the Urban Park Roof Garden in Cambridge Saturday; Surf's Up at TimeOut Market on Monday and at the Boston Harbor Shipyard on Tuesday; and Mean Girls at Lincoln Park in Somerville on Thursday.
• The Museum of Science has The Odyssey on the Giant Screen Friday & Saturday, and folks can RSVP to see the animated How to Train Your Dragon on the 25th as part of Disability Pride month.
• The Lexington Venue is open all week but Mpnday with Gail Daughtry and the Celebrity Sex Pass, Tuner, and The Odyssey. Noir He Walked By Night has a free show Saturday morning, documentary Dear Lara plays with group discussion afterward on Wednesday, and they get the Hadestown run starting Thursday.
  
  The West Newton Cinema opens The Odyssey and Rose of Nevada, keeping Moana, The Invite, Time and Water, Minions & Monsters, and The Sheep Detectives. So far, they're only listing Hadestown for Thursday.
  
  The Dedham Community Theatre has Rose of Nevada and The Invite.
  
  Cinema Salem plays The Odyssey, Evil Dead Burn, Minions & Monsters, and Toy Story 5 from Friday to Monday. The Salem Irish Film Festival continues with Kneecap on Friday, Dead Man's Money and A Want in Her on Saturday, and Horseshoe for closing night Sunday. Spooky Picture Show presents Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon on Saturday. The Wednesday Classic is The Searchers, with Weirdo Wednesday next door.

I won't be seeing any of that, instead binging at the Fantasia Festival for the rest of the month; first day's worth of reviews is already up! As much as I hope to keep up, my Letterboxd page will continue updating even as I inevitably fall behind!

Next Week in Tickets: Films playing Boston 10 July 2026 - 16 July 2026

Always the way of it - really scraping to find something to go to some days, then more than you can watch are on the schedule, but also, a thing theaters have been showing previews for is not coming out unless you want to spend twice as much time traveling to see it as watching it.

• Just a couple years after the original animated film (itself only ten years old) had a pretty successful sequel, Disney gives us a live-action Moana, with Dwayne Johnson returning as Maui but a mostly new cast otherwise. It's at the Capitol, Fresh Pond (including 3D), Jordan's Furniture (Imax 2D Friday-Sunday), West Newton, Boston Common (including Imax Laser 2D & Dolby Cinema 2D & RealD 3D), Causeway Street (including XL 2D & RealD 3D), Kendall Square, the Seaport, South Bay (including Imax Xenon 2D & Dolby Cinema 2D & RealD 3D), Assembly Row (including Imax Laser 2D & Dolby Cinema 2D & RealD 3D), Arsenal Yards (including CWX), and Chestnut Hill.
  
  With Evil Dead Burn, there are officially as many second-cycle Evil Dead movies there were in the original series, with Sam Raimi, Rob Tapert, and Bruce Campbell this time entrusting their baby to French filmmaker Sébastien Vanicek, whose Infested shows the right vibe for having the Necronomicon completely ruin a weekend with one's late husband's family. Honestly, it's kind of cool that they're using this thing identified with them to elevate up-and-comers like this. The movie opens at Fresh Pond, CinemaSalem, Boston Common (including XL & Dolby Cinema), Causeway Street, the Seaport, South Bay (including Dolby Cinema), Assembly Row (including Dolby Cinema), and Arsenal Yards.
  
  Also opening is Gail Daughtry and the Celebrity Sex Pass, featuring Zoey Deutch as a small-town girl who feels she needs to even the scales when her fiancé has sex with his celebrity crush and so goes to Hollywood looking for John Hamm. It's the latest from the writing team of director David Wain and co-star Ken Marino, playing the Somerville, the Coolidge, Dedham Community Theatre, Boston Common, Kendall Square, and the Seaport.
  
  The Night Nurse opening at Boston Common, the Seaport is not the Barbara Stanwyck classic, but a thriller involving a retirement home caregiver who becomes enmeshed as it is targeted by phone scammers.
  
  IFFBoston Closing film The Invite adds the Somerville, West Newton, Dedham Community Theatre, Causeway Street, Kendall Square, the Seaport, South Bay, Assembly Row, and Chestnut Hill to the Coolidge and Boston Common.
  
  South Bay has matinees of The Lego Movie Monday & Wednesday.
• IFFBoston selection Rose of Nevada opens atThe Coolidge Corner Theatre; I was pretty fond of this shot-on-16mm oddity from the director of Enys Men about a crew (George MacKay, Callum Turner, Francis Magee) who sign on to work a fishing boat that drifts into port after vanishing years earlier and find themselves returning to the time it vanished, and apparently the lives of the original crew.
  
  Alien invasion midnights this weekend are Fire in the Sky on 35mm film Friday and Invasion of the Saucer Men Saturday. The Slamdance Film Festival presents a selection of this year's films: Brailled It and Danny Is My Boyfriend on Sunday. There's also a July series celebrating Marylin Monroe's centennial, with Some Like It Hot Sunday afternoon. Other Special Screenings include documentary Ask E. Jean with director Ivy Meeropol on hand Monday; A Big Screen Classic presentation of The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance on Monday; the conclusion of "Spielberg X Nolan" with Minority Report on 35mm film Tuesday and Tenet on 70mm Wednesday; and the 70mm print of The Odyssey arriving Thursday.
• South Asian movies at Apple Fresh Pond and elsewhere include Lenin (also at Boston Common), a Tamil-language film apparently starring Akhil Akkineni as the Russian revolutionary; Tamil-language coming-of-age comedy Idhayam Murali; Hindi-language comedy Dhamaal 4, the latest in a series about treasure-hunting con artists; and Malayalam-language crime movie I, Nobody. Hind-language action/adventure Alpha continues at Boston Common.
  
  Chinese war movie Crossing features Liu Ye as Mao Zedong with Andrew Lau Wai-Keung directing the story of Mao's four crossings of the Chishui River. It opens at Boston Common, Causeway Street.
  
  Korean thriller The Eyes (a remake of Spanish-language film Julia's Eyes) follows a woman losing her sight trying who discovers her blind sister hung in their basement and seeks to prove it was a murder despite the police being convinced it's a suicide. It plays Boston Common.
  
  The Studio Ghibli film at the 'plexes this weekend is My Neighbor Totoro, playing Assembly Row, Boston Common on Saturday/Sunday/Wednesday (dubbed) and Monday/Tuesday (subtitled).
• After The Brattle Theatre starts the weekend with a 35mm print of Michael Caine in the original 1966 Alfie for the Friday film matinee, before paying tribute to Bow-Sim Mark, a martial arts master who started her Boston academy 50 years ago, by playing three films starring her son Donnie Yen: Drunken Tai Chi on 35mm film Friday evening and Saat Po Lang (aka Kill Zone) on Saturday, with John Wick: Chapter 4 as the second half of the double feature both nights. The weekend also features several Chinese films presented by STArt Film Studios - Living the Land and As the Water Flows on Saturday and Fly Me to the Moon on Sunday, all with pre-recorded introductions and Q&As.
  
  On Sunday, they start The Stanton Rule: A Harry Dean Stanton Centennial with a double feature of Cool Hand Luke & Ride in the Whirlwind, following that up with Repo Man on 35mm Monday/Tuesday/Wednesday, Cisco Pike on 35mm Tuesday, UFOria Wednesday (35mm double feature with Repo Man), and Lucky on Thursday. There's also an open-crafting show of La La Land on Monday evening and the latest selection of local GRRL HAUS CINEMA shorts on Thursday.
• The Capitol Theatre has Bubsy Berkley's Take Me Out to the Ball Game, starring Gene Kelly, Frank Sinatra, and Esther Williams, for "Play Ball!" on Friday.
  
  The Somerville Theatre seems to be squeezing a little extra rep in before The Odyssey's 70mm print settles down in the main screen on Thursday: Alien 3 plays in 35mm Friday night, while Saturday closes out Kurt & Jodie with The Hateful Eight on 70mm & Carnage on 35mm, before Frankenhooker plays to complement f GASH's Villains Ball up in the Crystal Ballroom, and then Terminator 2: Judgment Day in 35mm for the midnight special! Documentary Italian Wannabe is listed for Monday.
• The Museum of Fine Arts has The Christophers for an "Art on Fim" show on Friday evening.
• The Seaport Alamo has John Boorman's Excalibur Monday & Tuesday, a Jurassic Park movie party Monday, The Faculty on Tuesday, Baahubali: The Epic, Carlito's Way, and BUFF selection Buffet Infinity (with short "Man Eating Pussy") on Wednesday. Separate admission on those three, though it'd be a heck of a day at the movies if it lined up better.
• Landmark Kendall Square has E.T. on Tuesday for the Big Screen/Amblin summer movie and Batman Begins on Wednesday for Christopher Nolan Wednesdays (inspired by the Coolidge? Who can say, it's not a hard to series to come up with!).
• There's a pretty full slate of outdoor screenings this week, with Joe's Free Films and others showing Fantastic Mr. Fox at the MIT Open Space and Hamilton at the Hatch Shell on Friday; How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days at TimeOut Market on Monday; Babe at the Somerville Library on Tuesday; Speed at the Allston Speedway on Wednesday; and School of Rock at Lincoln Park in Somerville on Thursday.
• Supergirl plays its last shows on the Omni screen at The Museum of Science on Friday & Saturday, with The Odyssey opening next week. There's also a special screening of documentary #SheBelongs on Thursday, and the animated How to Train Your Dragon gets a free show on the 25th as part of Disability Pride month.
• The Lexington Venue is open all week but Mpnday with Blue Heron (which played the Coolidge a couple months back), Tuner, and Minions & Monsters. Documentary Lightworkers has a free screening on Wednesday and the "Just a Minute" Short Festival plays for free on Thursday.
  
  The West Newton Cinema opens Moana and The Invite, holding over Time and Water, Minions & Monsters, Toy Story 5, Disclosure Day, Pressure, and The Sheep Detectives. There's a sing-along show of Grease on Sunday.
  
  The Dedham Community Theatre has Gail Daughtry, The Invite, and Tuner this week.
  
  Cinema Salem plays Evil Dead Burn, Leviticus, Minions & Monsters, and Toy Story 5 from Friday to Monday. The Friday Night Light Show is Tank Girl; Some Like It Hot plays with a post-film chat on Saturday. The Wednesday Classic is Gone with the Wind, with Weirdo Wednesday next door, and on Thursday they have Four Letters of Love, the opening night selection of the Salem Irish Film Festival.
  
  The Isolate Thief plays out at the Liberty Tree Mall in Davers, with Mackenzie Foy manning a Civil War-era outpost and having to outwit gold-seeking outlaws led by Sean Bean; Odeya Rush and Joe Pantoliano are also in the cast.

So, huh, there should be time to get from The Hateful Eight to Saat Po Lang on Saturday, even with introductions and intermissions, but do I want to chance it? Anyway, still want to check out both the Donnie Yens, Evil Dead Burn, Minority Report, The Eyes, and Toy Story 5; probably won't be able to squeeze Crossing in before heading to Montreal for Fantasia on Wednesday. That, of course, will keep my Letterboxd page busy!

Next Week in Tickets: Films playing Boston 3 July 2026 - 9 July 2026

Happy Fourth, if you're feeling it this year. If not, well, try not to overheat heading to the subway to get some air conditioning in the theaters!

• Minions & Monsters opened Wednesday and continues to play at Fresh Pond (including 3D), the Capitol, the Lexington Venue, Jordan's Furniture (Imax 2D Friday-Sunday), West Newton, CinemaSalem, Boston Common (including Imax Laser 2D & Dolby Cinema 2D & XL 2D & RealD 3D & Spanish dub), Causeway Street (including XL 2D & RealD 3D), Kendall Square, the Seaport, South Bay (including Imax Xenon 2D & Dolby Cinema 2D & RealD 3D), Assembly Row (including Imax Laser 2D & Dolby Cinema 2D & RealD 3D), Arsenal Yards (including CWX), and Chestnut Hill.
  
  The release of Young Washington, which appears to follow the future President's service during the French & Indian War, seems aptly timed; it plays at Fresh Pond, Boston Common, Causeway Street, Kendall Square, South Bay, and Assembly Row.
  
  IFFBoston Closing film The Invite returns at the Coolidge and Boston Common, with director Olivia Wilde and Seth Rogen playing a couple whose marriage is on the rocks having a dinner party with their upstairs neighbors (Edward Norton & Penelope Cruz) on short notice. I liked it a lot; it's due to expand next week.
  
  Also opening is Maddie's Secret, with writer/director John Early playing the title character, a dishwasher whose cooking videos take off and dredge up secrets from her past. It's at the Coolidge, Boston Common, and the Seaport.
  
  The new one from The Last Exorcism director Daniel Tamm opens at Boston Common, with Lockbox featuring Carla Gugino trying to save her cousin from a demon; it also features Lou Taylor Pucci and Katharine Isabelle and is adapted from a podcast.
  
  Backrooms returns to/continues in theaters with an "Everything Must Go" addition which tacks future DVD extras on after the credits, playing at the Somerville, the Coolidge, Fresh Pond, Boston Common, Causeway Street, the Seaport, South Bay, Assembly Row, and Arsenal Yards.
  
  Citizen Kane has 85th anniversary shows at Boston Common on Sunday & Wednesday; South Bay has matinees of the live-action How to Train your Dragon Monday & Wednesday. Some of the Thursday night shows of the live-action Moana at Boston Common (Imax), Assembly Row (Imax) are "Fan Events". And, there's more Spanish-language World Cup action on the big screen at Assembly Row on Friday and F1 racing at Boston Common (Imax) on Sunday.
• The Coolidge Corner Theatre opens Romeria, a Spanish film starring Llúcia Garcia as a young woman who travel to a seaside town to learn about the father she never knew, in a film apparently based upon director Carla Simón's own life.
  
  Disclosure Day ends its 70mm run at the Coolidge with the Friday, Saturday, and Sunday evening shows, but will continue off a DCP. The Friday midnight show is Independence Day, they close early on the actual holiday. Monday's Big Screen Classic is American Psycho with a seminar by Coolidge Director of Education Sophie Blum beforehand, the Tuesday Spielberg is Saving Private Ryan on 35mm film, Wednesday's Nolan is Dunkirk on 70mm, and Thursday offers Summer of Soul for Cinema Jukebox at 7pm and Superbad as the 9:45pm Cult Classic.
• It's a fair-sized weekend for Indian cinema at Apple Fresh Pond and elsewhere, including two female-led Hindi action movies: Alpha (also at Boston Common), the latest in the YRF Spy Universe, stars Alia Bhatt and Sharvari as assassins trained from childhood; while Baby Do Die Do features Huma Qureshi as a deaf-mute killer spurred on by her late sister's voice. There's also Telugu-language adventure Nagabandham - The Secret Treasure; Telugu-language period horror Rao Bahadur (also at Causeway Street); and Tamil romantic comedy Gatta Kusthi 2. Hindi language romantic comedy Cocktail 2 continues at Boston Common.
  
  The new one from Mainland China director Feng Xiaogang, who was a pretty big deal for a while, is I Know Who You Are and features Lei Jiayin as a secret police officer maintaining a watch on his potentially subversive neighbor (Hu Ge) for 40 years, which I guess is heartwarming? It's at Boston Common and Causeway Street.
  
  Anime BLEACH: Thousand-Year Blood War - The Calamity continues at Boston Common, subtitled & dubbed.
• The Capitol Theatre has The Bad New Bears for "Play Ball!" on Friday.
  
  The Somerville Theatre has the last Monday Kurt & Jodie double feature with two gaslighting romances, Overboard & Sommersby, the former on 35mm film.
• After The Brattle Theatre is having some cooling issues, so they're closed Friday while folks fix the AC. That means the annual weekend of 35mm Jaws screenings starts Saturday, with shows through Monday Afternoon.
  
  Around that, they continue the "National Treasures" series with Nic Cage in National Treasure Saturday, Anaconda '97 on Sunday; Deep Impact and Mission: Impossible on 35mm Monday (separate admissions, it appears); a Denzel Washington Double Feature of Inside Man and Ricochet, the latter on 35mm, Tuesday; and Sister Act & Miss Congeniality on Wednesday. Thursday is the annual Trailer Treats show, a 35mm program of previews and shorts from the theater's archive.
• The Seaport Alamo screens documentary Jack Johnson: SURFILMUSIC on Friday, Saturday, Sunday, and Tuesday, with the latter one appearing sold out. The De Palma series continues with Scarface on Saturday, Sunday, Monday, and Wednesday.
• Landmark Kendall Square has Jaws on Tuesday for the Big Screen/Amblin summer (just in case you missed it at the Brattle) and Inception on Wednesday to start a Christopher Nolan (I guess in case the Coolidge sells out).
• WBUR's CitySpace shows Paranormal Activity on Wednesday, tying into the stage adaptation playing a pre-Broadway engagement at the Colonial Theatre, and featuring a conversation between the station's Robin Young and playwright Levi Holloway.
• Joe's Free Films shows free outdoor screenings of Hamilton at TimeOut Market on Monday and A Minecraft Movie at Lincoln Park in Somerville on Thursday.
• Supergirl only plays the Omni screen at The Museum of Science on Friday this weekend, but shows both Friday & Saturday next week before they switch over to The Odyssey.
• The Lexington Venue is open all week but Mpnday with Toy Story 5 andMinions & Monsters. There's a David Hockney "Exhibition on Screen" Thursday.
  
  The West Newton Cinema opens documentary Time and Water, which follows an Icelandic poet trying to preserve the memory of his homeland's glaciers. They also opened Minions & Monsters on Wednesday and keep Supergirl, Our Hero, Balthazar, Toy Story 5, Disclosure Day, Pressure, and The Sheep Detectives. There's a Ty Burr movie club show of The Friends of Eddie Coyle on Thursday.
  
  The Dedham Community Theatre keeps Pressure and Tuner this week.
  
  Cinema Salem plays Minions & Monsters, Supergirl, and Toy Story 5 from Friday to Monday. 20th Anniversary shows of The Departed play Sunday & Monday. The Wednesday Classic is Invasion of the Body Snatchers '56, with Weirdo Wednesday next door.

I'm hearing oddly good things about I Know Who You Are, so I'll try and catch that, Alpha, and Lockbox among the new releases, maybe catching up on Toy Story 5 and checking out Ricochet, Dunkirk, Scarface, and a couple others in rep. There's also Fantasia pre-gaming to do, as the new Fessenden is a crossover and I'm one Becky behind. Updates on my Letterboxd page.

Next Week in Tickets: Films playing Boston 26 June 2026 - 2 July 2026

There's a big-studio franchise movie clocking in at under two hours this weekend. Is that allowed?

• Seriously, Supergirl runs 108 pretty-decent minutes, adapting Woman of Tomorrow in less-idiosyncratic but still entertaining fashion, with Milly Aycox strong as the Girl of Steel. It's at the Capitol, Fresh Pond, the Museum of Science (Omnimax Friday/Saturday), Jordan's Furniture (Imax 2D Friday-Sunday), West Newton, CinemaSalem, Boston Common (including Imax Laser 2D & Dolby Cinema 2D & XL 2D & RealD 3D), Causeway Street (including XL 2D & RealD 3D), Kendall Square, the Seaport (including Dolby Atmos), South Bay (including Imax Xenon 2D & Dolby Cinema 2D & RealD 3D), Assembly Row (including Imax Laser 2D & Dolby Cinema 2D & RealD 3D), Arsenal Yards (including CWX), and Chestnut Hill.
  
  The other big opening is Jackass: Best and Last, which promises to be the last time these guys will abuse their bodies like this after 25 years, and pads it out with some classic gags to reach 90 minutes. It's at Fresh Pond, Boston Common, Causeway Street, Kendall Square, the Seaport, South Bay, Assembly Row, and Arsenal Yards.
  
  Rod Lurie directs war movie Lucky Strike starring Scott Eastwood as a grunt trapped behind enemy lines during the Battle of the Bulge, with Colin Hanks as his commanding officer for more second-generation casting. It's at Boston Common, Causeway Street, and Assembly Row.
  
  Couture stars Angelina Jolie as an American filmmaker documenting Fashion Week in Paris; writer/director Alice Winocour has made a number of other interesting films, including Proxima.
  
  Minions & Monsters gets a jump start on the holiday weekend, opening at Fresh Pond, the Capitol, the Lexington Venue, West Newton, Boston Common (including Imax Laser 2D & Dolby Cinema 2D & XL 2D & RealD 3D & Spanish dub), Causeway Street (including XL 2D & RealD 3D), Kendall Square, the Seaport, South Bay (including Imax Xenon 2D & Dolby Cinema 2D & RealD 3D), Assembly Row (including Imax Laser 2D & Dolby Cinema 2D & RealD 3D), Arsenal Yards (including CWX), and Chestnut Hill on Wednesday.
  
  Music doc Gregg Allman: The Music of My Soul plays Boston Common on Sunday. There are secret screenings Monday at Boston Common, Causeway Street, Kendall Square, The Seaport, South Bay, and Assembly Row; Minions & Monsters plays Early Access shows Monday at Boston Common (Dolby Cinema), South Bay (Dolby Cinema), Assembly Row (Dolby Cinema), and Chestnut Hill. Assembly Row has the Telemundo world cup feeds. Boston Common has a matinee double feature of both The Devil Wears Prada films daily from Friday to Tuesday; To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar plays afternoon Pride shows at Boston Common; Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby plays 20th anniversary shows at Boston Common Sunday/Tuesday/Wednesday. David plays matinees at South Bay on Monday & Wednesday.
• Apple Fresh Pond opens Hindi-language action-comedy Welcome to the Jungle (also at Boston Common) and Tamil-language comedy Con City, with Mirathi-language horror comedy Tumbadchi Manjula playing Sunday afternoon. Held over are Telugu-language action movie Maa Inti Bangaaram, Hindi language romantic comedy Cocktail 2 (also at Boston Common), and Hindi-language Partition drama Main Vaapas Aaunga.
  
  Saudi/Egyptian action movie 7 Dogs opens at Boston Common, mostly off-hour matinees, with an Interpol agent teaming up with a gangster to catch a terrorist in Riyadh. Most of the cast is Egyptian (MENA's largest movie industry) but the money is Saudi, which buys them not just the directors of the last two Bad Boys movies but a number of Western and Bollywood stars in (presumably) smaller roles).
  
  Anime BLEACH: Thousand-Year Blood War - The Calamity, a big event in the current series, plays Boston Common, subtitled & dubbed.
• The Capitol Theatre holds over Saudi thriller Unidentified through Tuesday, and it's weird there are two Saudi films to choose from, right? They didn't even have movie theaters a few years back! Bull Durham is the Friday "Play Ball!" movie. The monthly Disasterpiece Theater event is Monday, and documentary Coroner to the Stars plays Tuesday, with Globe film critic Odie Henderson discussing the film with director Ben Hethcoat.
  
  The Somerville Theatre plays the original Django for Saturday's Midnight Special. Monday's Jodie & Kurt double feature is the sci-fi night, with Contact & Stargate on 35mm film. Documentary Down by the Riverside plays Wednesday & Thursday, with directors Jodie Childers & Dan Messina on hand for a Q&A the first night.
• After The Brattle Theatre plays Mare's Nest every day this week, featuring Moon Guo-Barker as a child wandering a world seemingly free of adults.
  
  They also celebrate Mel Brooks's 100th! (hopefully not jinxing his making it to Monday) with films he directed and produced, including The Elephant Man (Friday), Young Frankenstein (Saturday & Sunday), History of the World: Part I (Saturday), The Fly (35mm Saturday/Sunday), The Producers (Sunday), Spaceballs (Monday). Tuesday's Free Elements of Cinema screening is The Friends of Eddie Coyle, often called the quintessential Boston Movie, at least of its era. On Wednesday, they start a "National Treasures" series with Nic Cage in National Treasure, with a 35mm double feature of Mission: Impossible & Charlie's Angels '00 on Thursday, with the series continuing through the 8th and including the annual Jaws shows.
• The Coolidge Corner Theatre keeps Disclosure Day in 70mm on the main screen, though one show Sunday is digital and thus regular matinee prices. The wrap clown month with midnight shows of House of 1000 Corpses (Friday) and It: Chapter 2 (Saturday), with Swedish rock doc Jawbreaker also playing midnight Saturday.
  
  Sunday morning starts with Geothe-Institut presentation Red Stars Upon the Field, with The Wiz for Monday's Big Screen Classic, Catch Me If You Can on 35mm for Spielberg Tuesday, The Dark Knight on 35mm for Nolan Wednesday (the 7pm screening is sold out, but a 3:30pm show has been put on), and Coming to America plays Thursday for another Big Screen Classic.
• As happened with the Tohoscope selection last month, The Seaport Alamo scheduled one screening of Godzilla vs. Biollante on little screen #3, sold it out, and now has matinees Friday/Saturday/Sunday/Monday/Wednesday. They also show BUFF selection Camp (which, uh, I was not a fan of) Friday & Thursday, De Palma's Blow Out Saturday/Sunday/Wednesday, and Australian LGBT crime drama Body Blow on Tuesday.
• RoxFIlm has their closing night films, If I Go Will They Miss Me?, preceded by short "Cycles", and Montmartre on Friday night at The Museum of Fine Arts. Friday also has their online portion start, continuing throughout the week.
• Landmark Kendall Square is down to seven screens right now, with screens 1 & 2 closed for construction that will merge them into one deluxe screen, and the concession offerings seem a bit limited as they begin their renovations. Anyway, Moonlight is the Pride feature on Tuesday.
• Joe's Free Films shows free outdoor screenings of SpongeBob: Search for SquarePants in Kenmore Square's Urban Park Roof Garden on Saturday and She's the Man at TimeOut Market on Monday.
• In addition to Supergirl on the Omni screen at The Museum of Science Friday & Saturday; tickets are on sale for The Odyssey in a few and RSVPs are open for documentary Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story Saturday afternoon.
• The Lexington Venue is open all week but Mpnday with Disclosure Day (through Tuesday) and Toy Story 5, with Minions & Monsters coming Wednesday. They also have Maine-set mockumentary Canoe Dig It? on Friday, a free screening of vintage Japanese monster movie Daimajin on Sunday morning, and comedy Influenced on Tuesday & Thursday evenings.
  
  The West Newton Cinema opens Supergirl and Our Hero, Balthazar, with the latter getting a "Behind the Screen" show on Sunday. Sticking around are Girls Like Girls, Toy Story 5, Disclosure Day, Pressure, and The Sheep Detectives. Minions & Monsters opens Wednesday.
  
  The Dedham Community Theatre picks up O Horizon, starring Maria Bakalova as a scientist who discovers a way to speak to her recently-deceased father (David Strathairn), and Pressure, with Tuner sticking around.
  
  Cinema Salem plays Supergirl (with a dog-friendly show on Saturday), Disclosure Day, Girls Like Girls, and Toy Story 5 from Friday to Monday. Eraserhead is the Friday Night Light show, the Teseracte Players dance in front of Rocky Horror on Saturday (Full Body, as always, at Boston Common). The Wednesday Classic is my Letterboxd page.