The Village at SOPAC — Local services in South Orange

This review is specially for the movie theatre. It was our first time back to the movies since late 2019 and unfortunately because of the experience here, I don’t see myself returning to theaters in general for a while. While the people working there were extremely friendly, unfortunately the audience from teens to grown adults cannot follow rules of not talking or being off cell phones during movies. It ruins it for people who actually follow the rules on the screen to silence cell phones and refrain from talking. We went to see Halloween Kills on a Sat night and left 15 mins into the movie. We didn’t tell the staff because we thought what could they do? Go and give a warning to every single person to stop talking or silence their phones? Wouldn’t work. Also the cop being there going up and down the aisles before the movie started at first made us feel safe and then eventually made us feel uneasy as to why a cop even has to be there. Will...

This is a nice small theatre that tends to be freezing cold. They have free summer movies Tues. and Wed. which is a nice gift for the community. Unfortunately, they are "sold out" just about every time for these free movies due to summer camps that attend and take every seat. There is an easy solution - open two auditoriums instead of one. When this is done, both campers and other patrons are able to enjoy this community gift. It's not like the other auditoriums are jam packed on a Tuesday and Wednesday morning at 10 am so I can't see it being a major loss of revenue. This long review is just an indication of my frustration at being turned away multiple times and getting in ONCE this summer -when they opened 2 theaters. And I'm not the only one. I would guess the employees turn away at least 15 people a day from seeing the free movie. Just open two...

I am surprised no one has mentioned this but I’m giving this theater 1 star because of the bedbug issue that they have had within the past year. I was told about the issue a couple of years back when I was talking to a random person in line while shopping and stayed away from the theater but then my mom and I decided to check it out last summer and when my mom mentioned it to the cashier, she thought we were talking about recent issues and assured us that the bedbugs were only found in one theater and that the theater was exterminated the previous week. Needless to say, we quickly left and I am scared to go back so unless they tear the whole building down and start fresh, I WILL NEVER go there again to...