The 11 Best Things Coming to Max in April

Coming April 5

The Zone of Interest (2023, PG-13)

Winner of best foreign film at AARP’s Movies for Grownups Awards (and notching an Oscar for its painstakingly rendered best sound), this loose adaption of Martin Amis’ novel of the same name from director Jonathan Glazer, 59, is a simultaneously absorbing and horrific account of the banality of evil as embodied by Nazi commander Rudolf Höss’ family just outside the walls of Auschwitz.

Coming April 6

Alex Edelman: Just for Us

After his acclaimed solo show on Broadway, comic Alex Edelman brings his show to HBO and Max in a comedy special. Edelman, who grew up in a modern Orthodox family in Boston, decides after enduring anti-Semitic threats online to head into the belly of the beast undercover — in this case, a meeting of neo-Nazis in Queens, New York. Believe it or not, hilarity ensues.

Coming April 14

The Sympathizer

Hot off his best supporting actor Oscar win, Robert Downey Jr., 58, goes full Peter Sellers in multiple roles in a seven-episode adaptation of Viet Thanh Nguyen’s 2015 Pulitzer Prize–winning novel of the same name. Directed by South Korean auteur Park Chan-wook, 60, and costarring Emmy winner Sandra Oh (Killing Eve), 52, and Kieu Chinh (The Joy Luck Club), 86, the dark dramedy blends espionage with culture as a half-Vietnamese, half-French communist mole (Hoa Xuande) is forced to flee with South Vietnamese refugees to the U.S. near the end of the war and spy on them while forming real bonds.

Coming April 16

An American Bombing: The Road to April 19th

Katie Couric, 67, executive produces and triple Emmy winner Marc Levin (Brick City), 73, directs this HBO original documentary about America’s surge in political violence, as seen through the filter of the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing — the deadliest homegrown attack in U.S. history.

Coming April 18

Conan O’Brien Must Go

After his celebrated 25-year run behind the Late Night desk, ginger-haired comic sprite Conan O’Brien, 60, brought his singular brand of wry to podcasting in 2018 with Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend and later, Conan O’Brien Needs a Fan. Now he joins the seemingly endless phalanx of celebrity international travelers in a four-part season that takes him to meet fans in Norway, Thailand, Ireland and Argentina.

Coming April 21

Ina Garten, right, with Jennifer Garner.

Courtesy: Warner Bros. Discovery

Be My Guest With Ina Garten, Season 4

Spring is entertaining season, and there’s no better inspiration than the Barefoot Contessa — Ina Garten, 76 — for the joy of breaking bread together. The six-episode season features high-profile guests Jennifer Garner, 51, astronaut Nicole Mann, Shake Shack founder Danny Meyer, 66, and The New Yorker editor David Remnick, 65.

The Jinx — Part Two

Long before Tiger King was a glimmer in Netflix’s eye, HBO’s The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst made true crime superfans out of viewers and critics alike in 2015. Nine years after the original series’ bombshell finale sent the New York real estate heir to prison for his role in one of several suspicious deaths, including his wife, best friend and a neighbor, filmmaker Andrew Jarecki (Capturing the Friedmans), 61, returns with more bombshells (including Durst’s prison calls and interviews with witnesses who did not come forward in the 2015 documentary) and six more episodes. Durst died in prison in January 2022, but that doesn’t make any of The Jinx — Part Two less absorbing. (Need to brush up? The first series is airing on Max as well.)