{"id":2357788,"date":"2026-04-04T00:26:01","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T00:26:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2357788"},"modified":"2026-04-04T00:26:01","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T00:26:01","slug":"interpersonal-and-mind-altering-dramas-star-in-aprils-new-movies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/interpersonal-and-mind-altering-dramas-star-in-aprils-new-movies\/","title":{"rendered":"Interpersonal and mind-altering dramas star in April\u2019s new movies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-article-body=\"true\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><i>When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission.<\/i><\/p>\n<figure class=\"relative mb-4\">\n<div class=\"relative\"><button aria-label=\"View larger image\" class=\"group absolute bottom-0 size-full\" data-ylk=\"elm:expand;itc:1;sec:image-lightbox;slk:lightbox-open;\"><span class=\"absolute bottom-3 right-3 rounded-full bg-white p-3 opacity-100 shadow-elevation-3 transition-opacity duration-300 group-hover:block group-hover:opacity-100 md:p-[17px] lg:bottom-6 lg:right-6 lg:bg-white\/90 lg:p-5 lg:opacity-0 lg:shadow-none\"><svg viewbox=\"0 0 22 22\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"size-4 lg:size-6\" width=\"22\" height=\"22\"><path d=\"M12.372.92c0-.506.41-.916.915-.916L21 0l-.004 7.712a.917.917 0 0 1-1.832 0V3.183l-6.827 6.828-1.349-1.348 6.828-6.828h-4.529a.915.915 0 0 1-.915-.915M1.835 17.816l6.828-6.828 1.349 1.349-6.829 6.827h4.529a.915.915 0 0 1 0 1.831L0 21l.004-7.713a.916.916 0 0 1 1.831 0z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/button><dialog aria-label=\"Modal Dialog\" aria-modal=\"true\" class=\"fixed bottom-0 left-0 right-0 top-0 z-4 size-full max-h-none max-w-none bg-white hidden\"\/><\/div><figcaption class=\"relative text-sm mt-1 pr-2.5\">\n<p>A secret revealed lights the fuse in \u2018The Drama,\u2019 starring Zendaya. | Credit: Pictorial Press \/ A24 \/ Alamy<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Spring was once the prelude to the summer blockbuster season, but studios are increasingly pushing out their films with less predictable patterns. This might explain why a classic summer action thriller and a buzzy vehicle for two young mega-stars are both dropping in April, along with these four other intriguing offerings.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"mb-4 text-xl font-bold md:text-2xl\">\u2018The Drama\u2019<\/h2>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Could anything be more of the moment than an edgy A24 offering starring <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/zendaya-becomes-1st-black-woman-022752478.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:Zendaya;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Zendaya&quot;}\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\"><u>Zendaya<\/u><\/a> and Robert Pattinson? In director Kristoffer Borgli\u2019s blend of dark comedy and psychological thriller, the two play Emma and Charlie, respectively, a couple on the verge of marrying whose relationship is unmoored by Emma\u2019s disturbing revelations during a game of \u201cWhat\u2019s the worst thing you\u2019ve ever done?\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">As the trailer makes clear, Charlie and the couple\u2019s friends are so shocked by whatever it is Emma says that the reveal puts their future together in doubt. The film\u2019s jaw-dropping twist, which we won\u2019t reveal here, is already making waves. This \u201ccomplex, incredibly stressful, provocative and uncomfortably funny\u201d movie \u201cunfolds like a dreadful, violent car wreck that keeps piling up,\u201d said Matt Neglia of Next Best Picture at <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/letterboxd.com\/nextbestpicture\/film\/the-drama\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Letterboxd;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Letterboxd&quot;}\" class=\"link \"><u>Letterboxd<\/u><\/a>. (<em>in theaters now<\/em>)<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"mb-4 text-xl font-bold md:text-2xl\">\u2018Pizza Movie\u2019<\/h2>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A stoner comedy for the age of edibles and ennui, \u2018Pizza Movie\u2019 follows the exploits of two college students, Jack (Gaten Matarazzo) and Montgomery (Sean Giambrone), after they take a mysterious, mind-bending drug. Based on a brief video about the ingested substance narrated by Sarah Sherman of \u201cSaturday Night Live,\u201d the pair believe that eating a pizza is the only way to save themselves from their increasingly bizarre trip, and so they must make their way downstairs through hallucinations, body swaps, exploding heads and a squad of hostile RAs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">First time directors Nick Kocher and Brian McElhaney helm what looks like an uproarious mashup of \u201cHarold and Kumar Go to White Castle\u201d and \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/entertainment\/articles\/film-reviews-warfare-minecraft-movie-204957429.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:A Minecraft Movie;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;A Minecraft Movie&quot;}\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\"><u>A Minecraft Movie<\/u><\/a>.\u201d An \u201cuproariously unhinged\u201d film, \u201cPizza Movie\u201d is a \u201clow-calorie guilty pleasure that offers just enough new ingredients to a meal you\u2019ve had many times before,\u201d said Zachary Lee at <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rogerebert.com\/reviews\/pizza-movie-hulu-comedy-review-2026#google_vignette\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Roger Ebert;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Roger Ebert&quot;}\" class=\"link \"><u>Roger Ebert<\/u><\/a>. <em>(on Hulu now<\/em>)<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"mb-4 text-xl font-bold md:text-2xl\">\u2018The Stranger\u2019<\/h2>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">It\u2019s hard to imagine a better pairing than decorated French director Fran\u00e7ois Ozon and Albert Camus\u2019 celebrated 1942 novel, \u201cThe Stranger.\u201d The first cinematic adaptation of the book since 1967, the film is shot in a gorgeous, sun-drenched, black-and-white reminiscent of Netflix\u2019s \u201cRipley.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Benjamin Voisin is Meursault, an emotionally stunted French settler (<em>pied-noir<\/em>) in Algeria who, after his mother\u2019s death, kills an Algerian man during an altercation and seems to feel nothing about it. The movie, like the novel, unfolds in two parts, following the events leading up to the murder, including Meursault\u2019s relationship with Marie (Rebecca Marder) and friendship with Raymond (Pierre Lottin) and then depicting Meursault\u2019s questioning and trial. It\u2019s an \u201cinsightful rereading of Camus, vividly evocative of the world it depicts and irreducibly an Ozon film,\u201d said Jonathan Romney at <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bfi.org.uk\/sight-and-sound\/reviews\/stranger-francois-ozons-insightful-re-reading-camus-classic-novella-explores-themes-queerness-algerian-identity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Sight and Sound;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Sight and Sound&quot;}\" class=\"link \"><u>Sight and Sound<\/u><\/a>. (<em>in theaters now<\/em>)<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"mb-4 text-xl font-bold md:text-2xl\">\u2018Marama\u2019<\/h2>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">An unsettling horror film that confronts the history of British colonialism in New Zealand, first-time director Taratoa Stappard\u2019s \u201cMarama\u201d is set in 1859. A Maori woman known as Mary (Ariana Osborne) is summoned to an estate in Yorkshire, England, where she is promised information about her biological parents.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">There she meets Nathanial Cole (Toby Stephens), who speaks Mary\u2019s language and offers her a position as governess for his daughter, who he is oddly raising as Maori. But Mary, whose original name was Marama, soon discovers that his strange obsession with her culture is quite sinister. Then things get wild. The movie \u201cdoes what horror movies do best, twisting film form into a tool for dissection\u201d of the \u201csociety that produced such nightmares,\u201d said Cl\u00e1udio Alves at <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/thefilmexperience.net\/blog\/2025\/9\/18\/tiff-50-mrama-serves-gothic-horror-with-an-anticolonial-twis.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:The Film Experience;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;The Film Experience&quot;}\" class=\"link \"><u>The Film Experience<\/u><\/a>. (<em>in theaters April 17<\/em>)<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"mb-4 text-xl font-bold md:text-2xl\">\u2018Normal\u2019<\/h2>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Bob Odenkirk may still be best known for his role as the slimy lawyer Saul Goodman on \u201cBreaking Bad\u201d and \u201cBetter Call Saul,\u2019 but he\u2019s also been busy reinventing himself as a late-middle-aged action star. In \u201cNormal,\u201d he plays Ulysses, a cop who takes a temporary gig as the sheriff in small-town Normal, Minnesota.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Unfortunately, he finds that behind the Minnesota Nice of people like Mayor Kibner (Henry Winkler) is a vast criminal conspiracy that has enlisted seemingly all of the town\u2019s residents and is likely responsible for the sudden vacancy he\u2019s filling. The film, which is well-timed given the centrality of <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/articles\/minneapolis-did-ice-accomplish-223141744.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:Minnesota;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Minnesota&quot;}\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\"><u>Minnesota<\/u><\/a> to recent U.S. political events, is alternately funny and shocking, as the quirky setup builds inexorably to a gonzo, set-piece shoot-out sequence. Director Ben Wheatley (\u201cKill List\u201d) \u201ctakes real trends in American life \u2014 economic stagnation, rising tribalism, gun fetishism \u2014 and follows them to their corrupt, violent end points,\u201d said Katie Rife at <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.indiewire.com\/criticism\/movies\/normal-review-bob-odenkirk-action-1235150125\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:IndieWire;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;IndieWire&quot;}\" class=\"link \"><u>IndieWire<\/u><\/a>. (<em>in theaters April 17<\/em>)<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"mb-4 text-xl font-bold md:text-2xl\">\u2018Fuze\u2019<\/h2>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A throwback thriller from director David Mackenzie (\u201cHell or High Water\u201d), Fuze is a heist movie with a particularly clever premise. A 1,000-pound WWII-era bomb is unearthed in London in a scenario clearly drawn from <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/theweek.com\/82175\/world-war-ii-bomb-found-at-london-building-site\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:real-life events;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;real-life events&quot;}\" class=\"link \"><u>real-life events<\/u><\/a>, after which a massive evacuation and defusing effort commences.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Major Will Tranter (Aaron Taylor-Johnson) and a city police officer (Gugu Mbatha-Raw) lead the bomb disposal operation, while a gang of criminals led by Karalis (Theo James) use the chaos of the bomb\u2019s discovery as cover for a daring bank heist. Amid myriad double crosses and revelations, the various plot machinations converge in satisfying ways. Mackenzie\u2019s lean thriller \u201cprizes style but has no higher ambition than to entertain, with an economy of means and no fussy pretension,\u201d said Richard Lawson at <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-reviews\/fuze-review-aaron-taylor-johnson-theo-james-david-mackenzie-1236362173\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:The Hollywood Reporter;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;The Hollywood Reporter&quot;}\" class=\"link \"><u>The Hollywood Reporter<\/u><\/a>. (<em>in theaters April 24<\/em>)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. 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