What movies are coming out in April 2023?

The Super Mario Bros. Movie (April 7)

Can’t you already hear the music in your head? For only the second time ever, and the first time in animation, arguably the world’s most famous video game franchise gets the big screen treatment. Expectations could not be higher even with that half-cool, half-questionable voice cast.

The Pope’s Exorcist (April 7)

Russel Crowe plays Father Gabriele Amourth, a real-life Catholic priest who’s said to have performed 100,000 exorcisms for the Vatican. Amourth wrote two autobiographies before he passed away in 2019, so this may end up being a horror/biopic hybrid of sorts.

Renfield (April 14)

Universal has finally started to dust off its amazing catalog of monsters for some big-time movies and the latest is this Dracula spinoff about his servant, Renfield, who no longer likes his job. Nicholas Hoult as Renfield is cool, Nicolas Cage as Dracula is God-tier.

Suzume (April 14)

Mamoru Hosoda’s latest sees a young girl swept up in a mysterious man’s attempts to stop a series of supernatural disasters all over Japan. Also, it’s the one where the love interest gets turned into a chair.

Evil Dead Rise (April 21)

The Evil Dead franchise comes back to the big screen for the first time in a decade with Sam Raimi and Bruce Campbell merely producing a new story with new characters in a new setting, but still with that trademark mix of gore and absurd.

Beau Is Afraid (April 21)

After Hereditary and Midsommer, we’ll watch anything Ari Aster makes. Apparently, he knows that, because his third film, Beau Is Afraid, looks like his wildest film yet as an unhinged Joaquin Phoenix experiences a surrealist quest on the way to see his mother. Or something like that.