Max to Add 105 New Releases In April 2025 – Here Are the 3 Most Interesting

By Phillip Swann
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Max, the streaming service formerly known as HBO Max, this month (April 2025) plans to add 105 new releases. Here are the three to watch, in my humble opinion.

Babygirl (2024)
Release Date: April 25
Nicole Kidman stars as a powerful CEO who risks it all when she engages in a torrid affair with a young intern, played by Harris Dickinson. The illicit relationship proves troublesome when the intern begins to push both sexual and corporate boundaries, leaving Kidman gasping (in more ways than one) for a way out. Babygirl was one of the most controversial movie releases of 2024 but Kidman’s performance is a stunner (as usual for arguably the best actress of her generation) and the themes provoke as well as titillate.

Hacks, season four premiere. Max Original
Release Date: April 10
Jean Smart plays Deborah Vance, an aging comedienne (based loosely on Joan Rivers) who must freshen up her act or else face show business extinction. Hannah Einbinder plays Ava Daniels, a young arrogant comedy writer who can’t keep a job because of her stubborn nature. The comedy begins when Deborah hires Ava to write her a new act, but the real charm of Hacks comes from the Mommie/Daughter relationship between the two leads. Smart is terrific as an overbearing performer desperate to stay relevant while Einbinder (the daughter of Saturday Night Live charter member Laraine Newman) is equally good as the rebellious Ava. You’ll laugh and cry with Hacks, sometimes both at the same time. Season four will commence on Thursday, April 10, with the first two episodes.

The Rehearsal, Season 2 – HBO Original
Release Date: April 20
How would you explain the humor of Nathan Fielder to a random stranger? Offbeat? Unpredictable? Brilliant? Hilarious? All would apply and you could throw in several more descriptions. The world’s most inventive comic since Albert Brooks returns for season two of The Rehearsal, a semi-reality show in which Fielder puts real people in real situations for unreal results. In season two, the six-episode series will feature the comedian’s attempt at using role-playing to explain the causes behind airline crashes. Yes, that’s right. Airline crashes. For humorous effect. It’s Nathan Fielder, folks.

Full List of New Releases On Max In April 2025

April 1
A Kind of Murder (2016)
A Stolen Life (1946)
Aftersun (2022)
All I See Is You (2017)
Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked (2011)

April in Paris (1952)
Bad Santa (2003)
Bad Santa 2 (2016)
Black Death (2010)
Deception (1946)

Drinking Buddies (2013)
Edge of the City (1957)
Friday (1995)
Friday After Next (2002)
I’ll See You in My Dreams (1952)

In This Our Life (1942)
It’s Love I’m After (1937)
Jezebel (1938)
Jimmy the Gent (1934)
Juarez (1939)

June Bride (1948)
Kid Galahad (1937)
Land of the Lost (2009)
Little Men (2016)
Logan (2017)

Lucky Me (1954)
Lullaby of Broadway (1951)
Marked Woman (1937)
Mr. Nobody (2011)
Mr. Nobody: Extended Director’s Cut (2011)

Mr. Skeffington (1944)
My Dream is Yours (1949)
My Golden Days (2016)
Next Friday (2000)
Nobody Walks (2012)

Now, Voyager (1942)
Old Acquaintance (1943)
On Moonlight Bay (1951)
Panama Hattie (1942)
Parachute Jumper (1933)

Payment on Demand (1951)
Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019)
Romance on the High Seas (1948)
Satan Met a Lady (1936)
Severance (2007)

Sixteen Candles (1984)
Special Agent (1935)
Stampede (1949)
Station West (1948)
Storm Warning (1951)

Suspicion (1941)
Tea for Two (1950)
That Certain Woman (1937)
The Biggest Little Farm (2019)
The Double (2014)

The Old Maid (1939)
The Prince (2014)
The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (1939)
The Star (1952)
The Terminator (1984)

The Tree of Life (2011)
The West Point Story (1950)
The Wild North (1952)
The Working Man (1933)
Three on a Match (1932)

Winter Meeting (1948)
Young Man with a Horn (1950)

April 2
Bateau Mouche: Sinking Justice, Season 1 (discovery+)
Ride of Your Life with Courtney Hansen, Season 2 (discovery+)

April 3
Fix My Frankenhouse, Season 2 (HGTV)
HOP, Season 1C (Max Original)

April 4
Y2K (A24)

April 5
HGTV Smart Home 2025 (HGTV)

April 6
Iyanu, Season 1A (Cartoon Network)
Lazarus, Season 1 (Adult Swim)

April 7
2073 (2024)
Barney’s World, Season 1C

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April 8
90 Day Diaries, Season 6 (TLC)

April 9
All Access PD: Grand Rapids, Season 1 (ID)

April 10
Gremlins: The Wild Batch, Season 2B (Max Original)
Hacks, Season 4 (Max Original)

April 13
The Last of Us, Season 2 (HBO Original)

April 15
Rock The Block, Season 6 (HGTV)

April 16
100 Day Dream Home, Season 6 (HGTV)
Fist Fight (2017)

April 17
Cookie Monster’s Bake Sale: Block Party (Max Original)
Ghost Adventures, Season 29 (Discovery)

April 18
Lu & The Bally Bunch, Season 1B (Cartoon Network)

April 19
Bugs Bunny Builders, Season 2D (Cartoon Network)
Impractical Jokers, Season 11B (truTV)
Outback Opal Hunters, Season 7 (Discovery)
Sal Vulcano: Terrified

April 20
The Rehearsal, Season 2 (HBO Original)

April 21
Yellowstone Wardens, Season 6 (Animal Planet)

April 22
Love It or List It, Season 20 (HGTV)
Planet Earth III, Season 3 (discovery +)

April 24
Life of the Party (2018)

April 25
Babygirl (A24)

April 28
24 in 24: Last Chef Standing, Season 2 (Food Network)
Evil Lives Here: The Killer Speaks, Season 2 (ID)
Filthy Fortunes, Season 1 (Discovery)

April 29
Contraband: Seized at the Border, Season 6 (Discovery)

April 30
Castle Impossible, Season 1 (HGTV)
Polyfamily, Season 1 (TLC)
Twitter: Breaking the Bird, Season 1 (CNN)

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