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.

Next Week in Tickets: Films playing Boston 19 June 2026 - 24 June 2026

I occasionally joke about how it's weird that the folks who saw the first Toy Story and Shrek movies in theaters could conceivably be bringing their grandchildren to the the new ones, but also consider the number of characters whose distinct voices have been recast due to infirmity and death. I dunno, seems like like there's some sort of lesson here.

• But, nonetheless, we get Toy Story 5 this weekend, hoping for a third perfect endpoint as the toys call Woody back in to help as Bonnie's latest toy, a tablet, begins to monopolize all of her time and make her antisocial. It's at the Capitol, Fresh Pond (including 3D), 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.
  
  On the opposite end of the spectrum is The Death of Robin Hood, which stars Hugh Jackman as the title character, a thief and murderer well aware of the legend already sanitizing his reputation, with his one last raid having unexpected consequences. Michael Sarnoski, who did Pig and A Quiet Place: Day One, directs, and it's a strangely thoughtful hard R playing the Coolidge, the Captiol, Fresh Pond, Boston Common, Causeway Street, the Seaport, South Bay, Assembly Row, and Arsenal Yards.
  
  Two LGBTQIA+ films open for Pride this week, with Levitcus a horror tale in which a demonic entity makes use of the attraction between two teenage boys, appearing to each as the other. It's at the Coolidge, Boston Common, Causeway Street, Kendall Square, the Seaport, South Bay, and Assembly Row. Coming of age film Girls Like Girls - which writer/director Hayley Kiyoko has previously recorded as a song and a book - opens at the Somerville, West Newton, CinemaSalem, Boston Common, and the Seaport. Moonlight also has daily screenings at Boston Common.
  
  Ocean's Eleven has 25th anniversary shows at Boston Common on Sunday; Raiders of the Lost Ark, meanwhile, celebrates 45 years at Boston Common and the Seaport on Sunday (also Tuesday at the Seaport and Coolidge Corner); Paddington in Peru plays matinees Monday & Wednesday at South Bay. There's a surprise preview at Boston Common, Causeway Street, South Bay, and Assembly Row on Monday. Not a surprise are the "Fan First" screenings of Supergirl Wednesday at Boston Common (Imax Laser), Causeway Street (XL), South Bay (Imax Xenon), and Assembly Row (Imax Laser), or the "Fan Event" shows of Jackass: Best and Last Thursday at Boston Common, Causeway Street, South Bay, and Assembly Row. The Spanish-language broadcasts of the World Cup will be playing on the big screen at Assembly Row.
• Indian movies at Apple Fresh Pond (and elsewhere) this weekend include Telugu-language action movie Maa Inti Bangaaram with Samantha Ruth Prabhu as a mother defending her family; Hindi language romantic comedy Cocktail 2 (also at Boston Common), which returns writer/director Homi Adajania but features a new pair of friends finding themselves attracted to the same man; Malayalam-language thriller Balam: The Boy; and Gujarathi-language comedy Jindagi Once More. Hindi-language Partition drama Main Vaapas Aaunga continues at Fresh Pond through Sunday.
  
  Vietnamese horror fantasy Hell Trotter opens at South Bay, mostly late shows.
  
  The anime feature adaptation of Revolutionary Girl Utena, Adolescence of Utena, plays Boston Common Sunday & Monday. Independent anime Jinsei also continues at Boston Common.
• The Capitol Theatre opens Saudi thriller Unidentified, with Mila Al Zahrani as a true-crime podcaster investigating the murder of a teenage girl. Major League play Friday as part of the "Play Ball!" series.
  
  The Somerville Theatre Bottle Rocket for Saturday's Midnight Special, a 35mm double feature of Breakdown & Flightplan for Monday's Kurt & Jodie pairing, and Shaun of the Dead for Thirsty Thursday.
• After The Brattle Theatre's has 35mm matinees of Malcolm X for Juneteenth on Friday & Saturday, while the weekend's main event is a new 75th Anniversary of Giuseppe De Santis's Bitter Rice from Friday to Monday.
  
  Well, one of them, as they have a 35mm print of The Shining for five Father's Day shows from Saturday to Monday. During the work week, they team withWicked Queer for Pride-themed anniversary shows, with Desert Hearts & Bound on Tuesday, Beautiful Thing on 35mm Wednesday, Macho Dancer later Wednesday, and Hedwig and the Angry Inch on Thursday.
• The Coolidge Corner Theatre has more clown midnights this weekend with Terrifier 2 on Friday (and The Room for a different value of "clown") and Chiodo Brothers classic Killer Klowns from Outer Space on Saturday. Spielberg X Nolan continues with Raiders of the Lost Ark on 35mm Tuesday (7pm sold out but a 9:30pm show added) and The Prestige on 35mm Wednesday (Disclosure Day plays the main screen on 70mm film all week long). Tuesday also features a screening of BUFF standout Rose of Nevada with director Mark Jenkin on-hand and author Paul Tremblay leading the discussion. Thursday's Cult Classic is Xanadu.
• The Seaport Alamo has I Am Not Your Negro and Female Trouble (separately!) on Friday, Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice, Force Majeure, and Body Double, plus an open-crafting show of Toy Story 5, on Saturday; Aftersun on Sunday; Johnny Guitar on Monday; and a preview of Maddie's Secret with livestreamed Q&A on Wednesday.
• RoxFIlm continues all week with screenings at Hibernian Hall, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, The Museum of Fine Arts, and JustBook-ish, plus daily online script readings and filmmaker hangouts.
• Landmark Kendall Square holds over Netflix film In the Hand of Dante, although it's going to be missing some prime showtimes.
  
  Brokeback Mountain is the Pride feature on Tuesday, and Interstellar is the week's "Saving Matt Damon" show on Wednesday.
• The Regent Theatre has documentary Linda Perry: Let It Die Here on Saturday, with filmmaker Don Hardy on-hand for a Q&A led by The Boston Globe's Victoria Wasylak.
• Joe's Free Films shows free outdoor screenings of Clueless at TimeOut Market on Monday and 50 First Dates at Boston Landing on Thursday.
• Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu on the Omni screen at The Museum of Science Friday & Saturday; tickets are on sale for Supergirl and The Odyssey in coming weeks and RSVPs are open for documentary Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story the afternoon of Saturday the 27th.
• The Lexington Venue is open all week but Mpnday with Disclosure Day (with an open-caption show followed by post-film discussion on Wednesday) and Toy Story 5..
  
  The West Newton Cinema opens Girls Like Girls and Toy Story 5; keeping Disclosure Day, Everyone to Kenmure Street, Tuner, Pressure, and The Sheep Detectives. Rebel with a Clause plays open-captioned Saturday afternoon, with The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert playing Sunday with a post-film reception.
  
  The Dedham Community Theatre adds Unidentified to Power Ballad and Tuner.
  
  Cinema Salem plays Disclosure Day, Girls Like Girls, Toy Story 5, and Obsession from Friday to Monday. Saturday features a "Food in Film" encore presentation of Jiro Dreams of Sushi in the afternoon and Spooky Picture Show hosting Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives. The Wednesday Classic pairs Grace Kelly with Bing Crosby & Frank Sinatra in High Society, with Weirdo Wednesday down the hall.

Female-led mystery from Saudi Arabia? Interesting! I'll probably also check out Toy Story 5, Dante, and some rep, especially since the Sox are heading out west and you can watch a movie and then baseball! Follow my Letterboxd page for updates!

Next Week in Tickets: Films playing Boston 12 June 2026 - 17 June 2026

Last week, barely anything to see. This week, stuff's blocking each other!

• The clear big deal is Disclosure Day, a new science fiction adventure from Steven Spielberg and writer David Koepp, starring Josh O'Connor as a man who has discovered humanity is not alone and intends to get the word out to the entire world at once; it also features Emily Blunt, Colin Firth, Colman Domingo, and Eve Hewson, and some are saying it's among his best. It's at the Coolidge (70mm), the Somerville, Fresh Pond, Jordan's Furniture (Imax Friday-Saturday), West Newton, CinemaSalem, Boston Common (including 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. The 8pm Friday night Imax screenings at Boston Common, South Bay, Assembly Row will feature a live-streamed introduction with Spielberg & Blunt.
  
  BUFF closer The Furious, in which two men searching for their missing wife and daughter fight their way through a phenomenal amount of human traffickers, opens at Fresh Pond and Boston Common. The action is amazing (and amazingly violent), culminating in a closing brawl that took 18 days of a six-week shoot.
  
  Also opening is Stop! That! Train!, with RuPaul as the President and most of the roles played by other drag queens, as stewardesses on a high-speed train face a natural disaster. Crazy how this is opening on a bunch of screens - including the Coolidge, Boston Common, Causeway Street, the Seaport, and South Bay - when this sort of thing supposedly makes mainstream America uncomfortable, huh?
  
  Call Me By Your Name has late-afternoon shows at Boston Common as the week's Pride selection; Amores perros has a new restoration at Boston Common Saturday & Monday. BTS World Tour Arirang will have "live viewings" at South Bay and Assembly Row on Saturday. Mystery previews play Boston Common, Causeway Street, South Bay, and Assembly Row on Monday; horror movie Leviticus has a non-mystery preview at Boston Common Tuesday. KPop Demon Hunters returns for sing-along shows at the Seaport (Monday/Tuesday/Wednesday), Arsenal Yards (Tuesday/Wednesday). Music doc Gregg Allman: The Music of My Soul plays the Coolidge and Boston Common on Wednesday. Assembly Row is showing a number of World Cup matches live, possibly the Spanish-language Telemundo broadcast.
• Landmark Kendall Square has Netflix film In the Hand of Dante before it hits the streamer, with Julian Schnabel's latest featuring Oscar Isaac in a dual role as Dante Alighieri and a present-day writer recruited to steal a copy of The Divine Comedy written in the poet's own hand. Heck of a supporting cast on it, too.
  
  Hedwig and the Angry Inch is the Pride feature on Tuesday, and Elysium is the week's "Saving Matt Damon" show on Wednesday.
• Apple Fresh Pond opens Hindi-language Partition drama Main Vaapas Aaunga (also at Boston Commo and, Causeway Street); Hindi-language thriller Bharat Bhhagya Viddhaata, featuring Kangana Ranaut as one of a group of nurses keeping patients safe during a terror attack; Hindi-language historical drama Governor: The Silent Saviour; and Telugu-language comedy/drama Sing Geetham. Telugu-language sports drama Peddi continues at Fresh Pond & Boston Common.
  
  Independent anime Jinsei, which follows a man through his 100 year life in idiosyncratic, hand-drawn form (with writer/director Ryuya Suzuki nearly a one-man crew), opens at Fresh Pond, Boston Common, the Seaport. Ponyo is the week's Studio Ghibli Fest selection, showing Saturday/Sunday/Wednesday (dubbed) and Monday/Tuesday (subtitled) at Boston Common and Assembly Row. There's a Crunchyroll Anime Sneak Peek at Boston Common, the Seaport, and Assembly Row on Monday.
  
  Hong Kong animated film Another World gets a second week of limited showtimes at Boston Common (it deservedly had a pretty good crowd when I saw it last week).
• Since the 70mm print of Disclosure Day has the main screen all week, The Coolidge Corner Theatre has a bit less rep than usual. Midnights for the rest of June are apparently creepy clowns, with It a bit early (11:30pm) on Friday and Blood Harvest on Saturday, plus the monthly Eraserhead. Monday's Big Screen Classic is Paper Moon on 35mm film, and Space Jam is the Thursday "Rewind!" show.
• After The Brattle Theatre's Friday Fim Matinee of Sandra Bernhard's Without You I'm Nothing, they host Noir City Boston, this year highlighting movies with a jazz bent, most introduced by the Film Noir Foundation's Foster HIrsch. The double features are Black Angel & Blues in the Night (both 35mm) on Friday; Anatomy of a Murder (35mm) & All Night Long Saturday afternoon; Gilda & To Have and Have Not (both 35mm) Saturday evening; The Man with the Golden Arm & A Man Called Adam Sunday afternoon; and The Yellow Canary & The Crimson Canary (35mm) Sunday evening. There's also a bonus screening of Sweet Smell of Success on Monday (without Hirsch).
  
  After that, they fill in the work week with Stop Making Sense on Tuesday and Richard Linklater's Before Trilogy: Sunrise on Tuesday/Wednesday/Thursday, Sunset Wednesday/Thursday, and Midnight on 35mm Thursday as the end of a triple feature.
• The Capitol Theatre has Eephus (which is delightful) for Friday's "Play Ball!" show; documentary HOPE: The Courageous Response in the Face of Adversity, which follows a young South Sudanese refugee, plays Thursday.
  
  The Somerville Theatre has a packed-enough schedule that Friday's Indie Spotlight, Rats! with directors Carl Fry & Maxwell Nalevansky, is playing in the Micro-Cinema. The centerpiece of the Kurt & Jodie series, a double feature of The Silence of the Lambs & The Thing, plays Saturay night, while Tombstone & Maverick play Monday, the latter on 35mm film. In between, the Saturday Midnight Special is Blue Velvet and Jeff Rapsis accompanies a 35mm print of silent cut-out animation The Adventures of Prince Achmed, a thoroughly unique take on Arabian Nights. The Thirsty Thursday show is From Dusk Till Dawn.
• The Seaport Alamo continues their Brian De Palma films with Dressed to Kill Friday night. Saturday features a But I'm a Cheerleader movie party, Agnes Varda's Le Bonheur, and The Graduate; Ingmar Bergman's Persona plays Sunday & Tuesday; a new 4K restoration of Boogie Nights plays Sunday/Monday/Wednesday/Thursday; and the Weird Wednesday show is The Devil Queen. There are advance screenings of The Invite on Tuesday and Leviticus on Wednesday
• RoxFIlm curates a screening of She Was There at the West End Museum on Saturday (free with RSVP) before opening the festival proper at The Museum of Fine Arts on Thursday with Transforming the Beautiful Game: The Clyde Best Story, preceded by short "The Bill Patterson Story", with a number of filmmakers from both films and Best himself on hand. The in-person festival continues through the 26th, at which point it will move online for another week
• The Regent Theatre has a second screening of beat poetry documentary Fugs Film! on Wednesday evening, maybe featuring featuring a live Q&A with director Chuck Smith (or maybe they just copied last week's listing).
• WBUR's CitySpace restarts their "Set in Boston" screening/conversation series with Girl, Interrupted on Thursday.
• Joe's Free Films shows a free outdoor screening of The Good Dinosaur at CambridgeSide on Friday and does not yet seem to be updated with the Coolidge presenting But I'm a Cheerleader at the Allston Speedway on Wednesday.
• The Museum of Science has Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu on the Omni screen Friday & Saturday evenings for the next two weeks, with tickets on sale for Supergirl and The Odyssey after that.
• The Lexington Venue is open all week with Disclosure Day, Pressure, and The Sheep Detectives. They also have free screenings of Maigret Sets a Trap Saturday morning, Maigret And The Saint-Fiacre Case Sunday morning, and documentary The Extraordianary Caterpillar, with guests from The Caterpillar Lab, on Tuesday evening.
  
  The West Newton Cinema opens Disclosure Day and one of my favorites from IFFBoston, Everyone to Kenmure Street, holding over Power Ballad, Tuner, Pressure, Backrooms, The Sheep Detectives, and Project Hail Mary. There's also The History of Sound with post-film panel discussion on Sunday and a rough-cut screening of documentary feature Nine on Wednesday, with proceeds going to complete the film. They also host the final film of Belmont World Film's refugee series, Promised Sky, with speaker Haleigh Burgon, who recently recorded oral histories in the film's Tunisian setting.
  
  The Dedham Community Theatre continues Power Ballad and Tuner.
  
  Cinema Salem plays Disclosure Day, Scary Movie, Backrooms, and Obsession from Friday to Monday. The Friday Night Light show is Austrian lesbian sci-fi adventure Flaming Ears, while Saturday features a "Food in Film" encore presentation of Tampopo, as well as the theatrical premiere of Clownspiracy paired with short film "Chompers" (with the latter's Chef Joe Gatto on hand for a Q&A). Sunday has a Whodunnit Watch Party, while the Wednesday Classic Grace Kelly month continues with To Catch a Thief, with Weirdo Wednesday down the hall, and Jiro Dreams of Sushi as that night's Food in Film movie, with another, Big Night, on Thursday.

So, my schedule is set with Noir City Friday to Sunday, Kurt & Jodie Monday, 70mm Disclosure Day Tuesday, a Red Sox game Wednesday, and, well, let's see if Jinsei or In the Hand of Dante continue for second weeks or even have evening shows to see what's up Thursday. Follow my Letterboxd page for updates!

Next Week in Tickets: Films playing Boston 5 June 2026 - 11 June 2026

Hey, could the next huge hit from some 20-something YouTuber be a romantic comedy or a heist movie or something featuring a great young martial artist? I like horror well enough, but let's switch it up!

• I guess it's time to see if anyone really wants a Masters of the Universe movie; the one we're getting has Nicholas Galitzine as He-Man, Jared Leto as Skeletor, some half-decent folks picking up paychecks, and maybe a little hope offered by director Travis Knight, who in addition to Kubo and the Two Strings also made Bumblebee, aka the good Transformers movie. It's at the Capitol, Fresh Pond, Boston Common (including Imax Laser & Dolby Cinema), Causeway Street, Kendall Square, the Seaport, South Bay (including Imax Xenon & Dolby Cinema), Assembly Row (including Imax Laser & Dolby Cinema), Arsenal Yards (including CWX), and Chestnut Hill.
  
  IFFBoston feature Power Ballad stars Paul Rudd as a wedding singer who sees the fading boy-band member played by Nick Jonas make his song a hit and goes a bit off the handle, with director John Carney clearly a specialist in inspiring musical stories. It's at West Newton, Dedham Community Theatre, Boston Common, Causeway Street, Kendall Square, the Seaport, South Bay, Assembly Row, and Arsenal Yards. Another IFFBoston alum, Carolina Caroline, opens in limited showtimes at Boston Common; it follows Samara Weaving & Kyle Gallner on a crime spree across the South.
  
  The Wayans Brothers are once again running the Scary Movie show, with movie #6 doing the number-eschewing thing and bringing back Anna Faris, Regina Hall, and others to parody recent horror movies. It's at Fresh Pond, CinemaSalem, Boston Common (including Dolby Cinema & XL), Causeway Street (including XL), Kendall Square, the Seaport, South Bay (including Dolby Cinema), Assembly Row (including Dolby Cinema), Arsenal Yards, and Chestnut Hill.
  
  The Amazing Digital Circus: The Last Act gets a run at Fresh Pond, Boston Common, Causeway Street, South Bay, and Assembly Row.
  
  Boston Common starts a series of Pride matinees with Milk playing at 4pm daily; The Birdcage has anniversary shows at Boston Common on Sunday & Wednesday. Assembly Row will be showing World Cup matches on the big screen starting Thursday.
• Apple Fresh Pond opens Hindi-language romantic comedy Hai Jawani Toh Ishq Hona Hai, Hindi-language crime drama Bandar, and Tamil-language dark comedy Parimala and Co. Malayalam-language comedy Mollywood Times plays Friday & Saturday, while Marathi-language drama Deool Band 2 plays Sunday. Telugu-language sports drama Peddi continues at Fresh Pond & Boston Common.
  
  Hong Kong animated film Another World opens for pretty limited showtimes at Boston Common; it follows a spirit guide in the afterlife whose latest charge carries enough anger to reincarnate as a monster.
• The New England Aquarium adds "Ocean Dreams" to their their Imax film rotation starting on Sunday.
• The Coolidge Corner Theatre continues Bleak Week with Time of the Wolf at 9:15pm Friday and a 35mm print of Elephant at midnight; animated films It's Such a Beautiful Day and Grave of the Fireflies on Saturday afternoon with a 35mm print of A History of Violence at midnight; and Béla Tarr's 539-minute magnum opus Sátántangó on Sunday.
  
  After that, Monday's Big Screen Classic is a 35mm print of Set It Off with a pre-film seminar by Mikal J. Gaines, and then they start the Spielberg X Nolan series with a 35mm print of Close Encounters of the Third Kind on Tuesday and a 70mm print of Interstellar on Wednesday (evening sold out, but there's a matinee). Thursday also has a (sold-out) big screen classic of Orlando and Sugar & Spice for the Cult Classic afterward, both on 35mm film.
• The Brattle Theatre hosts the Community Art Center's 29th annual Do It Your Damn Self National Film Festival on Friday night, before beginning their run of The Last One for the Road, an Italian indie road trip story running through Monday.
  
  They also celebrate Prince's birthday with Sign 'o' the Times (35mm) and Purple Rain on Saturday & Sunday, and have a craft-along show of The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert on Monday evening. After that, they've got a "Jim Jarmusch x3" series, with Mystery Train (35mm) Monday & Wednesday, Father Mother Sister Brother from Tuesday to Thursday, and Night on Earth Tuesday & Thursday.
• The Capitol Theatre has Field of Dreams for Friday's "Play Ball!" show. One Wednesday they have a mystery 16mm "Celluloid Confidential" movie.
  
  The Somerville Theatre starts the summer's Midnight Specials on Saturday with a 35mm print of Carrie. Monday's Jodie & Kurt show is Panic Room & Backdraft, with the latter on 35mm.
• The Seaport Alamo starts a Kids' Camp series with matinee screenings of Matilda Friday/Monday/Tuesday/Wednesday (and maybe Thursday). The original Hideo Nakata Ringu plays Friday night, Brian De Palma's Sisters on Saturday night, 30th Anniversary shows of Trainspotting on Sunday, a preview screening of Girls Like Girls with livestreamed Q&A from director Hayley Kiyoki on Monday, an afternoon show of Cave of Forgotten Dreams (apparently 2D) on Tuesday, with Kiyoshi Kurosawa's "Chime" & Serpent's Path the "Terror Tuesday" show later, and a Showgirls Movie Party on Wednesday.
• Landmark Kendall Square has But I'm a Cheerleader for the Pride feature on Tuesday and Saving Private Ryan for "Saving Matt Damon" on Wednesday.
• The Regent Theatre has beat poetry documentary Fugs Film! on Wednesday evening, featuring a live Q&A with director Chuck Smith, and another documentary, Roads of Fire, including a Q&A from director Nathaniel Lezra.
• The Museum of Science has Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu on the Omni screen Friday & Saturday evenings.
• The Lexington Venue closed Monday & Tuesday and shows Pressure, The Devil Wears Prada 2, and The Sheep Detectives on the other days.
  
  The West Newton Cinema opens Power Ballad, Tuner, and Pressure, keeping Backrooms, Silent Friend, The Sheep Detectives, and Project Hail Mary are held over. Do the Right Thing plays Saturday, with a WIP presentation of program manager Tim Leong's Summerville afterward; Casablanca plays Thursday fo Ty Burr's movie club. They also host Lost Land, which follows Rohingya refugees on a perilous trek to Malaysia, for Belmont World Film with lawyer Jacqueline Bhabha as the pre-film speaker.
  
  The Dedham Community Theatre adds Power Ballad to Tuner.
  
  Cinema Salem plays Scary Movie, Backrooms, Obsession, and The Sheep Detectives from Friday to Monday. They have an encore presentation of Rear Window on Saturday with post-film discussion. Another starring Grace Kelly, The Country Girl, is the Wednesday Classic with Weirdo Wednesday down the hall, and then on Thursday they have a "Food in Film" presentation of Tampopo.
  
  The AMC at the Liberty Tree Mall in Danvers has an English dub of German animated family film The Last Whale Singer

Man, it would be kind of cool if there were more interesting alternatives to Masters of the Universe, so I'll probably catch up with Obsession and the Trainspotting restoration, on top of Another World and some rep. Follow my Letterboxd page for updates!

Next Week in Tickets: Films playing Boston 29 May 2026 - 4 June 2026

Amused that screen #15 in the 13-screen AMC on Causeway Street (Arclight never finished building out all their intended screens before going bankrupt) is now an "XL" screen, apparently without them doing anything to upgrade it, much like #18 at Boston Common. I don't know that there are any obvious ones to label XL at Assembly Row or South Bay, but it's the easiest "upgrade" of the summer, considering that at some point in 2026 the Harvard Film Archive, Kendall Square, the Brattle, and the Coolidge will each be undergoing work!

• Another week, another notable horror release, with Backrooms giving 19-year-old director Kane Parsons a pretty nice cast - Chiwetel Ejiofor, Renate Reinsve, Mark Duplass - to expand his YouTube sensate to feature length. It opens at the Somerville, the Coolidge, Fresh Pond, West Newton, CinemaSalem, Boston Common (including Dolby Cinema), Causeway Street, Kendall Square, the Seaport, South Bay (including Dolby Cinema), Assembly Row (including Dolby Cinema), and Chestnut Hill.
  
  Surprisingly, World War II movie Pressure opted to just have previews on Memorial Day rather than opening for the holiday. It features Brendan Fraser as Dwight Eisenhower and Andrew Scott as the meteorologist responsible for tracking a massive storm ahead of D-Day, and plays the Capitol, the Coolidge, Fresh Pond, the Lexington Venue, Boston Common, Causeway Street, South Bay, and Assembly Row.
  
  IFFBoston narrative centerpiece Tuner, with Leo Woodall as a piano tuner whose preternaturally good hearing has him recruited by a safecracking crew run by Jean Reno, with Dustin Hoffman and Havana Rose Liu as the mentor and love interest being used as leverage, and Oscar-winning documentarian Daniel Roher directing his first fiction feature. It's at the Coolidge, Dedham Community Theatre, Boston Common, Kendall Square, and the Seaport.
  
  If you're anything like me, you're probably really looking forward to not seeing the trailer for The Breadwinner any more, with Nate Bargatze as a car salesman who has to take charge around the house while his wife (Mandy Moore) is traveling to start her new business. Hilarity ensues, and apropos of nothing, Mr. Mom came out 43 years ago and has Michael Keaton, Terri Garr, and Christopher Lloyd. The new movie opens at the Capitol, Fresh Pond, Boston Common, Causeway Street, the Seaport, South Bay, and Assembly Row.
  
  There are mystery previews at Boston Common, Causeway Street, the Seaport, South Bay, and Assembly Row on Monday. For non-mystery previews, Masters of the Universe has Dolby Cinema early access screenings at Boston Common, South Bay, and Assembly Row on Wednesday, while Hungry has early-access screenings on a regular screen at Boston Common the same night (which may be the hippo-horror movie's only theatrical show). Scary Movie '26 has "Fan Event" shows at Boston Common (Dolby Cinema), Causeway Street, the Seaport (Dolby Atmos), South Bay (Dolby Cinema), and Assembly Row (Dolby Cinema) on Thursday
• The Coolidge Corner Theatre wraps the midnight Sam Raimi series with a 35mm print of Drag Me to Hell on Friday and his newest, Send Help on Saturday (The Room also plays late on Friday). Sunday's Goethe-Institut presentation is Babystar, with director Joscha Bongard on-hand to talk about his graduation project afterward. Sunday also (mostly) concludes the May "Take Two" series with a double feature of Nouvelle Vague & Contempt; Monday's Big Screen Classic is perhaps the best crime film of the nouvelle vague, Rififi. They also participate in American Cinematheque's Bleak Week, presenting Persona (with Monica Castillo seminar) on 35mm and Morvern Callar on Monday, 35mm prints of Full Metal Jacket and Deliverance on Tuesday, Lars von Trier's Epidemic (also part of "Take Two") and Antichrist on Wednesday, and a 35mm print of River's Edge on Thursday. There's also a Cinema Jukebox show of Amadeus on Thursday.
• Malayalam-language drama Drishyam 3 opened on Wednesday at Apple Fresh Pond and Boston Common and continues. Fresh Pond plays Tamil-language action movie Blast and Malayalam-language actioner Kattalan Friday/Saturday/Monday/Tuesday, with re-releases of Telugu-language films 1 Nenokkadine and Athidhi on Sunday. Telugu-language sports drama Peddi opens at Fresh Pond & Boston Common on Wednesday. Tamil-language action/fantasy Karuppu likely finishes its run at Fresh Pond with Friday & Saturday matinees.
  
  There are 20th anniversary shows of anime Tekkonkinkreet in a new 4K transfer at Boston Common Sunday & Monday.
• The Brattle Theatre plays Radu Jude's latest, Kontinental '25, on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday evenings; it follows Eszter Tompa's bailiff Orsolya as she attempts to evict tenants and squatters from buildings due for demolition, with a homeless man's death sending her into a tailspin.
  
  In rep, they have a rescheduled afternoon show of Disney's Alice in Wonderland on Friday afternoon (though not on film like the usual Friday matinee), and celebrate what would be Marilyn Monroe's 100th with All About Eve & Don't Bother to Knock on Saturday & Sunday (Eve on 35mm), Some Like It Hot on 35mm Monday & Thursday, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes & How to Marry a Millionaire on Tuesday, The Misfits on Wednesday, and The Seven Year Itch (paired with Some Like It Hot) on Thursday. There's also a double feature of Suspiria '77 & Climax on Monday in association with the ART's production of Black Swan.
• The Capitol Theatre starts a "Play Ball!" summer series with The Natural on Friday evening.
  
  The Somerville Theatre has documentary Stolen Kingdom, which looks at "urban exploration" at Walt Disney World (including a stolen animatronic), on Sunday evening, with director Joshua Bailey on hand for a Q&A. The Jodie & Kurt double feature on Monday is The Accused & Silkwood, the former on 35mm film. Thirsty Thursdays is apparently taking a couple weeks off.
• The Seaport Alamo has put a bunch of extra screenings of Godzilla vs. Hedorah on after selling up the usual monthly Tohoscope screening, with matinee/afternoon shows Friday and Sunday to Wednesday (the site doesn't make dubbed versus subtitled clear). They've also moved the mystery Agfadrome movie to Saturday morning this time around, promising 1970s kung fu gorilla action from a rare print. Saturday also features a book club screening of Park Chan-wook's The Handmaiden, while Frances Ha plays Sunday evening, De Palma's Mission: Impossible on Monday, documentary The Python Hunt on Tuesday, a (sold out) free member screening of Netflix romcom Office Romance and Death becomes her movie party on Wednesday, and 30th anniversary restoration shows of Trainspotting on Thursday
• The Museum of Fine Arts wraps the Japanese film series with Princess Mononoke (subtitled) on Friday; documentary Frida Kahlo plays Saturday afternoon.
• Landmark Kendall Square starts two new repertory series for June, with The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert the first LGBTQ+ Pride show on Tuesday and Good Will Hunting kicking of "Saving Matt Damon" on Wednesday.
• The Museum of Science has Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu on the Omni screen Friday & Saturday evenings.
• The Lexington Venue is open all week with but Monday with Pressure, The Devil Wears Prada 2, and The Sheep Detectives. They also have the Frida Kahlo documentary on Saturday, Second Nature (a documentary about gender & sexuality in the animal world narrated by Elliot Page) on Wednesday, and Out of Print (a 2014 documentary on 35mm fanatics at the new beverly cinema) on Thursday.
  
  The West Newton Cinema opens Backrooms and Silent Friend, keeping The Mandalorian and Grogu, I Love Boosters, The Sheep Detectives, The Devil Wears Prada 2, and Project Hail Mary are held over. Single-shot Ukranian feature SHTTL plays Sunday afternoon with star Moshe Lobel appearing for a Q&A. They also host Belmont World Film as they start their World Refugee Month series on Monday with Enzo, with Suffolk University professor Marjorie Salvodon speaking before the French film about a middle-class teen picking up a trade and meeting a Ukrainian refugee.
  
  The Dedham Community Theatre turns over both screens, opening Tuner and Silent Friend.
  
  Cinema Salem plays Backrooms, The Mandalorian, I Love Boosters, Obsession, and The Sheep Detectives from Friday to Monday. Rear Window is the Wednesday Classic with no Weirdo Wednesday show currently listed.

Hitting both the AGFADrome mystery movie and Godzilla v Hedorah in the Seaport, Tuner, Pressure, probably the Jodie & Kurt pairing, and hopefully some Marilyn. Follow my Letterboxd page for updates!