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What's in cinemas, what's worth the ticket and where it's showing: our film reviews and cinema guides, from new releases to open-air screenings.
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Film Review Spider-Man: Brand New Day Review: Marvel's Record-Breaker Still Fills Thessaloniki Screens
Spider-Man: Brand New Day overtook Star Wars: The Force Awakens as the highest-grossing domestic release ever, but critics and audiences split over it: a record 98% Rotten Tomatoes audience score against a comparatively soft 90% from critics, many pointing to how much runtime Sadie Sink's Jean Grey reveal takes from Peter Parker's own arc. Nine weeks after release, Mood's Thessaloniki listings still show 12 screenings across three cinemas this week, fourth by volume in the city's current 31-title programme, right behind Resident Evil and Minions & Monsters.
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Film Review Parallel Tales Review: Farhadi's Cannes Provocation Fills Athens Screens
Asghar Farhadi's Parallel Tales (Histoires Parallèles) premiered at Cannes 2026 to a seven-minute standing ovation and a critical mauling - Rotten Tomatoes has it at 19 percent, Metacritic at 41. Isabelle Huppert leads as a novelist spying on her neighbors, with Virginie Efira, in a praised dual role, Vincent Cassel, Pierre Niney and Catherine Deneuve. Four months on, it is the widest-playing non-blockbuster title in Athens: 78 screenings across 23 venues, from the arthouse screen Cinobo Opera to the city's last open-air cinemas of the season. Full showtimes and cinema listings are on Mood.
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Film Review Coyote vs. Acme Review: The Movie Warner Bros. Almost Buried
Coyote vs. Acme is a Warner Bros. comedy that Warner Bros. Discovery shelved as a 2023 tax write-off before Ketchup Entertainment rescued it and released it on August 28, 2026, to a 95% Rotten Tomatoes score. Wile E. Coyote, still hand-drawn, sues the Acme Corporation with a washed-up lawyer played by Will Forte. Three weeks into release it remains one of the widest bookings in Los Angeles, playing at 22 of the 115 movie theaters Mood tracks in the city this week, a wider spread than any other recent release except Resident Evil and Practical Magic 2.
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Film Review Minions & Monsters Review: Still the Widest-Playing Movie in Athens
Minions & Monsters is Illumination's 2026 Despicable Me spin-off, sending two Minions through a stolen-spellbook accident into 1920s Hollywood stardom before a real-monster movie plot takes over. It's the best-reviewed film in the franchise's history on Rotten Tomatoes, praised chiefly for its Old Hollywood passage led by Jeff Bridges and Christoph Waltz, even as its box office closed as the series' lowest-grossing entry. In Mood's Athens screening data, it is still playing at 30 of the city's 99 tracked cinemas nearly three months after release, a wider footprint than any other film in town.
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Film Review The Odyssey Review: Nolan's Epic Is Still Filling Thessaloniki Screens
Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey, starring Matt Damon and Anne Hathaway, is still playing across seven Thessaloniki cinemas nine weeks after its July release, from multiplexes like Village Cinemas at Mediterranean Cosmos to smaller independent rooms. The film holds a 94% Rotten Tomatoes score and an 89 on Metacritic, though Homer translator Emily Wilson publicly criticized its emotional and psychological depth, a genuine split behind the consensus praise. Mood's screening data shows it booked into more distinct Thessaloniki venues than any other film currently tracked in the city, even as newer releases outpace it on raw screening count. Full current showtimes for The Odyssey and everything else playing in Thessaloniki are listed on Mood.
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Film Review Resident Evil (2026): Zach Cregger Finally Cracks the Reboot
Resident Evil (2026) is Zach Cregger's reboot of Capcom's survival-horror franchise, following medical courier Bryan (Austin Abrams) through a viral outbreak in Raccoon City. It holds a 96% Rotten Tomatoes score, the highest of any Resident Evil film, and on Mood's data it is also the widest release in Los Angeles theaters this week, running in 101 of the 171 venues Mood tracks across the city. The film is strongest in its tense, character-driven first half and loses some momentum once the plot moves indoors for its Umbrella Corporation reveal. Mood lists full showtimes and participating theaters for Los Angeles moviegoers deciding where to see it.
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Film Review Practical Magic 2 Review: Nostalgia Carries a Sequel the Story Can't
Practical Magic 2 reunites Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman as the Owens sisters, twenty-eight years after the original, with Sally choosing to hide the family's witch history from her own daughters after her husband dies from the Owens curse. Critics have been unimpressed - a Rotten Tomatoes score in the high 30s - while audiences have responded far more warmly, above 90%, largely on the strength of Bullock and Kidman's chemistry rather than the story around them. In Mood's data, it's also this week's widest release in Athens: 39 screenings across 29 cinemas and open-air venues, ahead of Fatherland and The Odyssey. Full listings are on Mood.
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Cinema Alamo Drafthouse Downtown Los Angeles: Dine-In Seats and Repertory Programming
Alamo Drafthouse Cinema Downtown Los Angeles is a dine-in movie theater in the Financial District where food and drinks are served at the seat during the film, alongside a strict no-talking policy the chain has enforced since its 1997 Austin origins. In Mood's data, the venue carries 113 upcoming screenings across 59 films, and at least 55 of those screenings, spanning 38 titles, are repertory or revival bookings rather than day-and-date new releases - everything from Akira and Ghost in the Shell to Terminator 2 and Beetlejuice sharing a calendar with current theatrical titles. Mood tracks the full schedule.
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Cinema Premium Movie Theaters in Los Angeles: IMAX, 4DX and ScreenX Guide
A premium-format movie theater is built around one specific technology - IMAX's taller image, 4DX's motion seats and environmental effects, or ScreenX's panoramic wraparound picture - rather than a standard screen and fixed seating. Los Angeles runs twelve of these rooms in Mood's tracked cinema data: two Cinepolis IMAX locations (Inglewood and Westlake), one CinemaWest complex in El Segundo combining 4DX, ScreenX and a giant screen, and nine Cinemark theaters built around the XD format, stretching from Carson and Downey to North Hollywood. Together they carry 1,376 screenings against 12,258 tracked citywide across 170 Los Angeles movie theaters. Mood maps every one of these formats by neighborhood, alongside the city's standard multiplexes and independent screens.
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Cinema Laemmle Movie Theaters in Los Angeles: A Guide to All Six Locations
Laemmle is Los Angeles's dedicated arthouse movie theater chain, a family-run operator founded in 1938 that specializes in independent, foreign-language and documentary releases. In Mood's data, six Laemmle locations - NoHo 7, Glendale, Monica Film Center, Town Center 5, Royal and Newhall - carry 350 confirmed upcoming screenings between them, split unevenly: NoHo 7 alone runs 98, well ahead of Glendale's 64, while Newhall's published calendar is currently the thinnest and shortest-range of the six. Programming varies room to room, from Glendale's documentary-and-music lean to Newhall's rare mainstream studio bookings. Mood lists every Laemmle screening in Los Angeles.
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Cinema Greek Classic Films at Athens' Open-Air Cinemas This Summer
Athens keeps around 70 open-air, "therina" cinemas running through the summer, and this season Cine Paris in Plaka is showing two Oscar-nominated Greek classics from the 1960s alongside its usual mix of new releases and foreign revivals. The Red Lanterns screens on August 26th and Blood on the Land on September 2nd, both directed by Vasilis Georgiadis. Mood tracks the wider open-air programme too, from Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey - the most-screened film across the city's open-air cinemas this month - to dozens of smaller neighbourhood venues, giving visitors a full picture of what is actually playing before they pick a night out.
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Cinema Independent and Historic Movie Theaters in Los Angeles: A Guide to the City's Screens
Los Angeles has the deepest repertory and independent movie theater culture in the United States - a network of historic movie palaces, nonprofit arthouses and revival theatres that screen far more than the week's new releases. In Mood's data, more than 3,200 screenings run across 89 LA movie theaters, from the Disney-run El Capitan and the single-screen Vista to revival houses like Vidiots and the Academy Museum. The repertory depth is the giveaway: classics such as Terminator 2, Spirited Away and It's a Wonderful Life recur across the calendar alongside tentpoles like Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey. Mood pulls every LA movie theater and screening into one place.
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Cinema Outdoor Movies in Los Angeles: Rooftops, Cemeteries and Summer Screens
Outdoor movie screenings in Los Angeles are the city's summer tradition of watching films under the sky - on Downtown rooftops, cemetery lawns and open-air lots where the setting is half the point. In Mood's data the two anchors are Rooftop Cinema Club DTLA, the most-programmed open-air screen in the city with more than 80 upcoming screenings, and Cinespia, which projects classics onto a mausoleum wall at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery. It is a seasonal, atmosphere-first layer on top of LA's year-round movie theater calendar, concentrated in the warm months and prone to selling out. Mood pulls the outdoor screenings into the same calendar as the rest of the city's movie theaters.
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Cinema What's Playing in Los Angeles Movie Theaters: October 2026
Los Angeles movie theaters run 3,922 screenings across 119 venues in October 2026, and for the first time this season a revival outscreens every new release: Ken Russell's The Devils (1971) leads the month with 325 showings, concentrated at 13 movie theaters. Resident Evil tops the 2026 slate at 189 showings across 45 movie theaters, with Primetime, Heart of the Beast and Christopher Nolan's still-running The Odyssey close behind. Horror-tagged titles account for 41% of everything playing this month, the clearest sign of how much October leans on Halloween-season revival programming. Mood tracks every movie theater and showtime in one place, refreshed each month.
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Cinema Family Movies at Athens Open-Air Cinemas in September 2026: What's Still Playing
Athens's open-air cinema season opened September at the same scale it closed August - 98 cinemas running the first weekend, per Mood's data - but confirmed showtimes fall off fast after that, with only two cinemas' schedules stretching further into the month. Minions & Monsters is September's most-screened film, playing 91 times across 44 cinemas, ahead of Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey and the drama Fjord. Family and comedy titles dominate the closing stretch, though a wide classics strand - Psycho, Trainspotting, Conversation Piece - is still running. Full listings are on Mood.
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Cinema Open-Air Cinemas in Thessaloniki 2026: The Complete Summer Guide
Open-air cinemas - the therina sinema - are a fixed part of a Thessaloniki summer: garden and rooftop screens that run films under the night sky from late May to September, often with the Thermaic Gulf or the city lights in the frame. Mood lists more than ten open-air cinemas across Thessaloniki for 2026, from waterfront landmarks like Natali and Ellinis to Cine Avra in Kalamaria and the hillside Panorama screen. The summer programme runs from new releases like Toy Story 5 to later-night revivals. The full list and showtimes are on Mood.
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Cinema Open-Air Cinemas in Athens 2026: The Complete Summer Guide
Open-air cinemas - the θερινά σινεμά - are Athens's summer ritual: rooftop and garden screens that run films under the night sky from late May to September, often with the Acropolis or the sea in the frame. Mood lists more than 60 open-air cinemas across Athens for 2026, from landmark venues like Cine Paris in Plaka and Thision below the Acropolis to neighbourhood and coastal screens in Vouliagmeni, Nea Smyrni and beyond. The summer programme runs from new releases like Toy Story 5 to revivals of Amélie and Psycho. The full list and showtimes are on Mood.