2026 Best Of The Year Tournament

Ranking The New Movies We Saw In April 2026

After a bit of a delay, here are the rankings of the new movies released (that we saw) in April of 2026!

Unfortunately, April was another light month with only three movies making the ranking. Hopefully May will be better, either way, let's see where the three released movies fall in the ranking.

3. The Super Mario Galaxy Movie

Look, I love jangling keys as much as the next guy but at a certain point franchises need to grow. They don't necessarily need to grow up, especially in the case of an Illumination animation film, but they do need to exist in space that serves more than merchandise sales and sequel setup. The Star Fox backstory sequence was cool and all, but that doesn't make a movie worth watching. It's colorful, there's some fun to be had, but I have a hard time remembering vast parts of it and it's only been a month since I saw it.

2. The Drama

I think I wanted to like The Drama more than I did. It's not a terrible movie, there's just a split between what the movie is actually doing and what the movie is trying to do. It's trying to ask and answer a question about what's the line where you could learn something about someone you love's past and have it fundamentally change what you think about them. The problem is, using a situation where a character was as close to committing a school shooting as is possible brings in a political angle that the movie is not prepared to grapple with. At the same time, it does something I absolutely loathe in movies and it's forcing a female character to do the emotional heavy lifting for a male character who is entirely to blame for their circumstances, including emotional harm to her.

1. The Christophers

It's been said that Steven Soderbergh makes "movies for adults." That feels dismissive but it's not an inaccurate assessment of how he operates. He's fantastic at taking a movie with small stakes, making them feel huge, and pulling absolutely fantastic performances from the actors he works with. In the case of The Christophers, he tells a personal story of a man at the end of his life who is coping with that while also dealing with what his legacy will be through his working relationship with his assistant/an art forger hired to finish a line of paintings by his kids so they can make money on him after he dies. Michaela Coel and Ian McKellen are phenomenal, I just wish Michaela Coel had more to do or was a more active character. Even with that, this movie is the best movie from April, earning it a bid in the Best of the Year Tournament.