24 Films to See in April

by Keith Kimbell, Metacritic Film Editor – April 3, 2023

While this April lacks the big-budget tentpoles that are typical of the season, it makes up for it with a diverse array of promising films, ranging from a Ben Affleck crowd-pleaser to festival hits to intriguing new titles from Ari Aster, Kelly Reichardt, Cristian Mungiu, David Lowery, and more. Oh, and did we mention that there's even a good new Nicolas Cage film? And a good Evil Dead sequel?

In the gallery on this page, our editors have selected the most interesting films debuting in North American theaters this month, listed in alphabetical order.

Additional content by Jason Dietz

5 of 24 photo by Larry Horricks/Searchlight Pictures

67 Chevalier

Drama/Music | Directed by Stephen Williams
Opens in theaters April 21
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Written by Stefani Robinson (Atlanta and What We Do in the Shadows) and directed by Stephen Williams, who returns to features after directing episodes of Watchmen, Westworld, Lost, and many more shows over the past 25 years, this period biopic stars Kelvin Harrison Jr. (Waves) as composer Joseph Bologne, dubbed Chevalier de Saint-Georges by Marie Antoinette (Lucy Boynton). Unable to contain his whole, incredibly impressive life, the film instead focuses on his time striving to become the head of the Paris Opera, his affair with the married (and white) opera singer Marie-Josephine (Samara Weaving), his subsequent falling out with the court, and his support of the French Revolution.

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