What to Watch in April: 21 Notable TV Shows & Streaming Movies

by Jason Dietz, Metacritic Features Editor – March 30, 2023

The month ahead will bring the concluding seasons of Barry and The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, a new Netflix dark comedy that critics love, a globetrotting sci-fi series from the Russo brothers, series adaptations of Grease and Dead Ringers, and more. In the gallery on this page, our editors have selected the most interesting TV and movie titles debuting at home in the next month, listed in order by premiere date.

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BONUS: The best older titles coming to the streaming services in April

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▣ Moonage Daydream (2022) - HBO Max, 4/29
The latest rock doc from Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck director Brett Morgen is an experimental and impressionistic portrait of the late David Bowie produced with the support of Bowie’s estate and the massive archive of previously unseen footage that comes with it.

also available:

8 Mile (2002) - Peacock, 4/1

13 Assassins (2011) - Hulu, 4/8

American Hustle (2013) - Netflix, 4/1

The Aviator (2004) - Prime Video, 4/1

Better Call Saul Season 6 - Netflix, 4/18

Bigger Stronger Faster (2008) - Prime Video, 4/19

The Birds (1963) - Netflix, 4/1

Blue Valentine (2010) - Peacock, 4/1

Born of the 4th of July (1989) - Netflix, 4/1

The Bourne Ultimatum (2007) - Netflix, 4/1

Bridesmaids (2011) - Hulu and Peacock, 4/1

Broad City Seasons 1-5 - Paramount+, 4/5

Brokeback Mountain (2005) - Peacock, 4/1

Coraline (2009) - HBO and HBO Max, 4/1

Courage Under Fire (1996) - Hulu, 4/1

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000) - Prime Video, 4/1

The Descendants (2011) - Prime Video, 4/1

The Diary of a Teenage Girl (2015) - Hulu, 4/1

Dirty Pretty Things (2003) - Prime Video, 4/1

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) - Peacock, 4/1

Experimenter (2015) - HBO and HBO Max, 4/1

Face/Off (1997) - Paramount+ and Prime Video, 4/1

Flux Gourmet (2022) - Hulu, 4/13 (rescheduled from March)

Forrest Gump (1994) - Prime Video, 4/1

Gandhi (1983) - Peacock, 4/1

Get Shorty (1995) - Paramount+, 4/1

Ghost World (2001) - Paramount+, 4/1

The Godfather (1972) - Paramount+, 4/1

The Godfather Part 2 (1974) - Paramount+, 4/1

Hellboy II: The Golden Army (2008) - Peacock, 4/1

High Fidelity (2000) - Hulu, 4/1

The Host (2007) - HBO and HBO Max, 4/1

How to Train Your Dragon (2010) - Netflix, 4/1

I Am Love (2010) - HBO and HBO Max, 4/1

Inside Man (2006) - Netflix, 4/1

Iris (2015) - HBO and HBO Max, 4/1

The Joy Luck Club (1993) - Prime Video, 4/1

The Killing (1956) - Paramount+, 4/1

The LEGO Batman Movie (2017) - Peacock, 4/19

Life Itself (2014) - Prime Video, 4/12

Life of Pi (2012) - Prime Video, 4/1

Lincoln (2012) - Paramount+, 4/1

The Long Goodbye (1973) - Paramount+, 4/1

Moneyball (2011) - Peacock, 4/1

Monos (2019) - HBO and HBO Max, 4/1

mother! (2017) - Paramount+, 4/1

Mud (2013) - HBO and HBO Max, 4/1

The Mustang (2019) - Netflix, 4/16

No Way Out (1987) - HBO and HBO Max, 4/1

Once (2007) - Hulu, 4/1

Philomena (2013) - Prime Video, 4/1

Psycho (1960) - Netflix, 4/1

The Queen of Versailles (2012) - Hulu, 4/8

Shanghai Noon (2000) - Prime Video, 4/1

Shrek (2001) - Hulu, 4/1

Shrek 2 (2004) - Hulu, 4/1

The Sisters Brothers (2018) - Prime Video, 4/1

Speed (1994) - Prime Video, 4/1

Spider-Man 2 (2004) - Netflix, 4/1

Tangerine (2015) - HBO and HBO Max, 4/1

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011) - Prime Video, 4/1

Titanic (1997) - Prime Video, 4/1

WarGames (1983) - Paramount+, 4/1

We Are the Best! (2014) - HBO and HBO Max, 4/1

Whiplash (2014) - Prime Video, 4/1

White God (2015) - HBO and HBO Max, 4/1

Whose Streets? (2017) - Prime Video, 4/12

Zero Days (2016) - Hulu, 4/15

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