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Like many streamers, Amazon’s Prime Video has learned to cater to just about every taste imaginable. This month, the service rolls out a pricey adaptation of the video game Fallout set in a super-violent postapocalyptic California, but also a musical love story, Música, about a guy who can turn everyday sounds into a pulsing personal soundtrack. Alexander Payne’s The Holdovers, featuring remarkable performances by Paul Giamatti, 56, and newly minted Oscar winner Da’Vine Joy Randolph, lands on Prime — along with classics such as Chaplin and the eight-season medical drama House. Mark your watch list with the 11 best new offerings on Prime and its ad-supported sister streamer, Freevee, coming in April.
Coming April 1
Chaplin (1992, PG-13)
Robert Downey Jr., 58, who just won his first Oscar for his supporting role in Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer, first captured the academy’s attention for his nominated turn as Hollywood legend Charlie Chaplin. Richard Attenborough’s biopic can be formulaic, but Downey nails Chaplin’s all-over-London accent (sometimes Cockney, sometimes posh) and his gift for sidesplitting slapstick.
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House (2004-12)
For eight seasons, Hugh Laurie, 64, created an indelible portrait of a curmudgeonly, pill-popping physician with a unique ability to sniff out unusual diagnoses. The show continues to hold appeal for fans of hospital dramas, mysteries and WebMD.
Coming April 4
Música (2024, PG-13)
Former YouTuber Rudy Mancuso directed, cowrote and stars in this semi-autobiographical love story about a young man with a condition called synesthesia. His brain turns the ordinary sounds around him into rhythms, as if he’s creating his own personal movie soundtrack while moving around in the world. Here, his alter ego (also named Rudy) sparks a romance with a young woman played by Camila Mendes (Riverdale).
Coming April 5
Alex Rider, Season 3
More than two years have passed since the second season of this spy thriller, starring Otto Farrant as a teenage James Bond type originally recruited by MI6 to infiltrate an academy for the children of one-percenters. A bit older, he seeks to take on an evil criminal organization known as Scorpia and learn the mysterious backstory about his former MI6 agent father. (This show streams on Amazon’s ad-supported Freevee service.)
How to Date Billy Walsh (2024)
In a Briticized throwback to classic ’80s teen movies (including the use of the Ferris Bueller-like mantra, “Kiss my ass, universe”), a teenage boy (Sebastian Croft) who’s nurtured a crush on his female bestie (Charithra Chandran) is thrown into upheaval by the arrival of a hunky exchange student (Tanner Buchanan) who seems interested in her.
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