The good news is that Prime Video has a lot of great movies to watch in April. The bad news is that Prime Video has a lot of great movies to watch in April.
Don’t worry, Watch With Us is here to recommend three of the best films to stream this month.
Using Rotten Tomatoes as our guide, we’ve curated a list of some of Prime Video’s most critically acclaimed films, like a Benedict Cumberbatch spy thriller and an Oscar-winning horror flick.
3. ‘The Good House’ (2021)
Sigourney Weaver has been a star for almost 50 years now, but lately she’s been stuck acting in mediocre indie films and Avatar sequels. That changed with The Good House, a quiet drama about a woman barely keeping it together.
The Alien actress stars as Hildy Good, a once-successful New England realtor who has lost her home-selling mojo due to some personal problems — like a broken marriage she’s still recovering from and a habit of drowning her sorrows with a nice glass of wine. She wants to be on top again, but in a depressed real estate marketplace, few are buying and the ones who are prefer her ex-assistant and current rival, Wendy (Kathryn Erbe). Her personal life gets a boost when she encounters Frank (Kevin Kline), a former boyfriend who still has feelings for her, but Hily’s secret drinking problem could doom any chance she has of finding love and success again.
The Good House may have low stakes, but Weaver’s sensitive performance makes you invested in them — and what happens to Hildy. The film can’t shake its “champagne problems” aura — for all her worrying, Hildy still has it pretty good — but it’s a credit to Weaver and Kline that it makes you care about people whose bank accounts are probably double the size of yours.
2. ‘Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy’ (2011)
It’s the height of the Cold War, and there’s a mole in Britain’s foreign intelligence department, MI6. Only one man can identify the secret Soviet agent, and that’s George Smiley (Gary Oldman). But Smiley was forced into retirement years ago, and he’s still bitter. When the bodies start piling up, Smiley’s patriotic duty overwhelms his wounded ego, and he investigates who has been leaking sensitive information to the Russians. What he discovers could lead to not only the downfall of one of his friends, but the end of Smiley’s marriage and life as well.
Based on the acclaimed John Le Carre novel of the same name, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy has such a tricky plot that it requires you to watch the movie at least twice — maybe more. I had to watch it four times to fully understand what was going on, but I didn’t mind — the film boasts terrific acting, writing and directing. It also successfully evokes an era of Cold War suspicion, when some of your closest friends could be secretly working to bring down the country you’re living in. In this context, Smiley can’t trust anyone — not even himself. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy is a cracking good thriller that rewards you with each subsequent rewatch.
1. ‘Weapons’ (2025)
One random night in a small Pennsylvania town, seventeen children wake up, run outside with their hands outstretched and disappear into the darkness. No one knows why, only that every child had one thing in common — they all belonged to Justine Gandy’s (Julia Garner) elementary class. That’s why everyone in town thinks she had something to do with it. Justine insists she’s innocent, but no one believes her except for Alex Lilly (Cary Christopher), the only child in her class who didn’t disappear. Alex knows more than he’s letting on, but his silence masks a fear that Justine and the rest of Maybrook will soon understand.
Weapons starts as an intriguing mystery that soon evolves into a horror film involving strange curses and — well, telling you more would spoil some of the fun. Garner and Josh Brolin as a grieving father are terrific, but there’s a reason why Amy Madigan won an Oscar for her 13-minute performance. In that short time, she creates a fascinating character, Aunt Gladys, who stands side-by-side with some of cinema’s greatest horror icons, like Ruth Gordon’s devil-worshipping neighbor Minnie in Rosemary’s Baby. Gladys is funny, sad and terrifying, and that also describes her unfortunate wardrobe and shake-and-go wig.
