A 19-year-old Anthony Bourdain (Dominic Sessa) takes a summer job in a Provincetown restaurant kitchen in 1976, stumbling into the world that would shape the rest of his life. Produced by A24, the film was partly shot on location in Provincetown and on Cape Cod, with Antonio Banderas co-starring as his mentor.
After a global pandemic wipes out most of humanity, a widowed pilot (Jacob Elordi) lives in a Colorado airplane hangar with his dog and a gruff survivalist (Josh Brolin) until a mysterious radio transmission sends him into the unknown. Ridley Scott directs from Peter Heller’s acclaimed novel, with Margaret Qualley, Guy Pearce, and Allison Janney co-starring.
When her fiancé actually uses their celebrity pass agreement and sleeps with Jennifer Aniston, small-town Kansas hairdresser Gail (Zoey Deutch) heads to Los Angeles to even the score with her own celebrity pass: Jon Hamm. Directed by David Wain (Wet Hot American Summer), with Jon Hamm and John Slattery playing themselves.
A queer filmmaker (Hannah Einbinder) hired to resurrect a long-running slasher franchise becomes obsessed with casting the original film’s reclusive “final girl” (Gillian Anderson), and the two women spiral into a blood-soaked world of desire and delirium. Directed by Jane Schoenbrun (I Saw the TV Glow), the film won the Queer Palm at Cannes.
September 7 • 12:00pm & 7:00pm • UNITED Main Cinema
Elizabeth Taylor and Paul Newman star as a couple whose strained marriage reaches a breaking point during a birthday gathering for the family patriarch (Burl Ives). Tennessee Williams’ Pulitzer Prize-winning play, nominated for six Academy Awards. Seniors attend free.
Join us for a special one-night only screening of the new film The Airways Belonged to the People: WBCN and the American Revolution – the story of how a Boston radio station helped end a war, drive an unpopular president from office, and give voice to a generation.
Willem Dafoe plays Ed Saxberger, a forgotten New York poet who has spent decades working at the post office, until a group of young admirers arrives on his doorstep to anoint him a rediscovered genius. Greta Lee co-stars in this adaptation of an Arthur Schnitzler novella, directed by Kent Jones and written by Samy Burch (May December).
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Practical Magic 2 (PG-13)
Opens September 11
Set twenty-five years after the original, Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman return as the Owens sisters, now facing a new crisis when Sally’s daughter begins developing dark powers that threaten to resurrect the family’s ancient curse. Director Susanne Bier reunites the original cast, including Dianne Wiest and Stockard Channing.
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Coyote vs. Acme (PG-13)
Opens September 11
After years of pursuing the Road Runner with one defective Acme product after another, Wile E. Coyote finally decides to sue. A live-action and animated legal comedy starring Will Forte, Lana Condor, and John Cena, with the full Looney Tunes roster along for the ride.
September 14 • 12:00pm & 7:00pm • UNITED Main Cinema
Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., and Bing Crosby play rival Chicago bootleggers in this musical comedy that transplants the Robin Hood legend to Prohibition-era gangland. The Rat Pack at peak swagger. Seniors attend free.
In Celebration of America’s 250th, the UNITED and the Babcock Smith House Museum present a FREE screening of the short-film The Patriot of Kings County about Dr. Joshua Babcock.
Four recent college graduates on a late-night drive accidentally turn onto a road that stretches on forever, surrounded by unseen horrors, with no exit in sight. A debut feature from director Alexander Ullom, shot entirely with a cast of young unknowns.
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Resident Evil (R)
Opens September 18
Director Zach Cregger (Barbarian) reinvents the franchise with an all-new story set during the events of the Raccoon City outbreak, following a medical courier (Austin Abrams) caught in a desperate race for survival.
Join us for a very special screening of the new short film LIFE OF THE PARTY featuring an intro and Q&A with the film’s director Scott Faris live in-person at the UNITED.
September 21 • 12:00pm & 7:00pm • UNITED Main Cinema
Tom Cruise’s star-making turn as a Chicago teenager whose quiet week alone at home spins rapidly out of control. A sharp, funny satire of Reagan-era ambition that holds up far better than its reputation suggests. Seniors attend free.
The UNITED presents the September Knit at Nite film series screening featuring the ever-charming, cozy 2026 hit The Sheep Detectives. Knit at Night is a monthly cozy-meets-cinema series where the lights stay a little brighter and you are invited to bring your knitting, crocheting, or fiber project of choice and settle in for a communal screening designed for makers.
Two best friends on the eve of separation stumble through a portal to a mythical Filipino island, only to discover that their memories of each other are the price of the ticket home. A DreamWorks animated adventure from the director of Puss in Boots: The Last Wish
The UNITED is proud to be a hosting venue for the 2026 Mystic Film Festival for film screenings from Friday, September 25th through Sunday, September 27th.
September 28 • 12:00pm & 7:00pm • UNITED Main Cinema
Errol Flynn is at his most irresistible as the outlaw nobleman defying Prince John and his corrupt court to protect the people of England. Shot in glorious three-strip Technicolor, with a score by Erich Wolfgang Korngold. Seniors attend free.
Tom Cruise plays the most powerful man in the world, who sets off on a frantic mission to prove he is humanity’s savior before the catastrophe he has unleashed destroys everything. A satirical black comedy from Alejandro G. Inarritu.
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THE CYCLE OF LOVE (NR)
Opens October 2
In 1977, a 23-year-old Delhi street artist with $80 and a secondhand bicycle set off on a 6,000-mile journey across continents to find the Swedish woman he loved. A documentary from the director of The White Helmets.
A spaceship crew investigating a silent colony on a distant planet finds only two survivors and a deadly, invisible force. A landmark of science fiction cinema, loosely adapted from Shakespeare’s The Tempest and a clear ancestor of Star Trek. Seniors attend free.
The UNITED and Westerly ARC present a screening of director Destin Daniel Cretton’s Just Mercy, the true story of Bryan Stevenson (played by Michael B. Jordan) who after graduating from Harvard headed to Alabama to defend those wrongly condemned or those not afforded proper representation.
Aaron Sorkin writes and directs this companion piece to The Social Network, following Frances Haugen (Mikey Madison), a Facebook engineer who enlists a Wall Street Journal reporter (Jeremy Allen White) to expose the company’s most guarded secrets. Jeremy Strong co-stars as Mark Zuckerberg.
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Ha-Chan, Shake Your Booty! (R)
Opens October 9
After losing her dance partner to tragedy, Tokyo ballroom dancer Haru (Rinko Kikuchi) slowly finds her way back to the studio and into an unexpected new romance. Winner of the Directing Award at Sundance.
October 12 • 12:00pm & 7:00pm • UNITED Main Cinema
Bill Murray, Chevy Chase, Rodney Dangerfield, and Ted Knight collide at a snobbish country club in Harold Ramis’s anarchic comedy. Endlessly quotable and still one of the funniest films ever made about golf, class, and gophers. Seniors attend free.
A documentary tracing the 1972 Toronto production of Godspell that quietly launched Martin Short, Gilda Radner, Eugene Levy, Andrea Martin, Victor Garber, and Paul Shaffer, planting the seeds of Saturday Night Live and SCTV. Executive produced by Judd Apatow.
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Whalefall
Opens October 16
A young man (Austin Abrams) diving off the California coast in search of his father’s remains is swallowed whole by an 80-foot sperm whale, with one hour of oxygen left to find a way out. Based on Daniel Kraus’s novel, directed by Brian Duffield.
October 19 • 12:00pm & 7:00pm • UNITED Main Cinema
In an overpopulated, resource-starved New York of the future, detective Robert Thorn (Charlton Heston) investigates a corporate murder and uncovers a truth that will change everything. Edward G. Robinson’s final film performance. Seniors attend free.
The UNITED presents the October Knit at Nite film series screening featuring the 90’s classic Clueless. Knit at Night is a monthly cozy-meets-cinema series where the lights stay a little brighter and you are invited to bring your knitting, crocheting, or fiber project of choice and settle in for a communal screening designed for makers.
October 26 • 12:00pm & 7:00pm • UNITED Main Cinema
Vincent Price stars as a disfigured sculptor who rebuilds his destroyed wax museum by much darker means in this horror classic that launched his career as a genre icon. Still genuinely creepy. Seniors attend free.
Just in time for Halloween, the UNITED presents a Big Screen Society film series screening of Stanley Kubrick’s iconic and terrifying adaptation of Stephen King’s The Shining.
The UNITED presents a screening of director Abby Ginzberg’s 2025 film Labors of Love as part of the Jewish Film Series in partnership with Congregation Sharah Zedek.
Bruce Lee stars as a martial arts expert recruited by a British intelligence agency to infiltrate a criminal syndicate operating out of a heavily fortified island fortress. The film that introduced Lee to Western audiences and remains the gold standard of the martial arts genre. Seniors attend free.
Bill Hader voices the Cat in this animated feature debut, as the iconic Dr. Seuss character takes on his toughest assignment yet: cheering up two siblings struggling to adjust to a new town.
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Wild Horse Nine (R)
Open November 6
Shortly before the 1973 Chilean coup, two CIA agents (John Malkovich and Sam Rockwell) are sent from Santiago to Easter Island on a trust-testing mission. The new film from Martin McDonagh (The Banshees of Inisherin), with Steve Buscemi, Parker Posey, and Tom Waits
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RIO BRAVO (1959) | NR
November 9 • 12:00pm & 7:00pm
John Wayne plays a small-town sheriff who must hold a dangerous prisoner until the U.S. Marshal arrives, with only a recovering alcoholic (Dean Martin), an old deputy (Walter Brennan), and a young gunfighter (Ricky Nelson) to help him. Howard Hawks at his most relaxed and confident. Seniors attend free.
Michael Caine plays a London gangster who travels to Newcastle to investigate his brother’s suspicious death and finds something far uglier than he expected. One of the great British crime films, lean and unsparing from start to finish. Seniors attend free.
The UNITED presents a Big Screen Society film series screening of David Lean’s Lawrence of Arabia, perhaps the best example of a “have to see it on the biggest screen possible” epic there is.
Walt Disney Animation’s 65th feature follows Billie (voiced by Hailee Steinfeld), an unconventional teenager who discovers hidden magical abilities and is pulled into Hexe, a vast witch realm. Forced to investigate family secrets alongside her cautious mother Alice (Rashida Jones), the two uncover mysteries that could upend the world of witches forever. Jodie Foster and Walton Goggins co-star.
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I Play Rocky (PG-13)
Opens November 20
The true story of a broke, unknown Sylvester Stallone who wrote Rocky and refused to sell it unless he got to play the lead. Directed by Peter Farrelly (Green Book), starring Anthony Ippolito as a young Stallone.
Tom Hanks and Shelley Long play a couple who buy what seems like a dream house at a dream price, only to discover why it was so cheap. A slapstick comedy built around one escalating disaster after another, with Hanks at his most physically committed. Seniors attend free.
Peter Sellers plays Chance, a simple-minded gardener who has never left his employer’s estate and knows the world only through television. When he is thrust into Washington society after his employer’s death, his literal-minded observations are mistaken for profound wisdom. One of the great comic performances in American film. Seniors attend free.
In 1949, Nobel Prize-winning writer Thomas Mann and his daughter Erika embark on a road trip across a Germany in ruins, from American-occupied Frankfurt to Soviet-controlled Weimar. Shot in black and white by director Pawel Pawlikowski, winner of Best Director at Cannes.
Judy Garland stars as one of four sisters in a prosperous St. Louis family facing an uncertain future as the 1904 World’s Fair comes to town. Directed by Vincente Minnelli, it features some of the most beloved songs in the American musical canon, including “The Trolley Song” and “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas.” Seniors attend free.
Barbara Stanwyck plays a magazine columnist who has built her career writing about her idyllic life on a Connecticut farm, her loving husband, and her cooking. The only problem: none of it is true. A fast-talking holiday comedy that holds up as well as anything from the era. Seniors attend free.
Heroes from three distinct Marvel universes collide and face an existential threat unlike anything before, led by Robert Downey Jr. as a new villain: Doctor Doom. Directed by the Russo brothers.
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Dune: Part III (PG-13)
Opens December 18
Set 17 years after Paul Atreides seized the throne, Denis Villeneuve’s epic conclusion finds a ruthless Emperor facing conspiracy, betrayal, and a galaxy-wide holy war. Timothee Chalamet, Zendaya, Florence Pugh, and Robert Pattinson star.
Clark Griswold (Chevy Chase) is determined to give his family the perfect old-fashioned Christmas, and everything that can go wrong does. The third entry in the Vacation series and the one that stuck, now a holiday perennial for a reason. Seniors attend free.
The UNITED presents a screening of director Robert Mandel’s School Ties (1992) as part of the Jewish Film Series in partnership with Congregation Sharah Zedek.
The game breaks free of its console and invades the real world. Dwayne Johnson, Kevin Hart, Jack Black, and Karen Gillan return for the fifth and final installment of the franchise. Christmas Day.