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Netflix is not fooling around this April as it bulks up its slate for the first full month of spring. Romance films, comedies and dramas abound on the streamer with a few titles that launched at the end of March making it into the best new films to stream on Netflix in April.

For those in a more serious or wistful mood, The Life List and A Dog’s Way Home will pull at the heartstrings and help viewers feel all the feelings when they watch. Those in the mood for uplift can watch Rudy or The Breakfast Club or Field of Dreams. Those wanting a laugh can stream One of Them Days.

Find the best new movies streaming on Netflix in April 2025 below:

The Life List – March 28 L to R: Sofia Carson as Alex and Kyle Allen as Brad in ‘The Life List’

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For a day with a hard and stressful deadline, Tristar’s One of Them Days starring music artist Sza and Keke Palmer has a soundtrack that reduces stress and emphasizes the comedy of the film.

The premise hinges on Palmer’s Dreux and Sza’s Alyssa, two roommates who find themselves scrambling for rent money when Alyssa’s boyfriend Keshawn (Joshua David Neal) took their original payment to try out a creative endeavor. Their landlord Uche (Rizi Timane) comes knocking with the threat that if they can’t come up with $1,500 by 6 p.m., they’ll be evicted.

The film also includes appearances from Lil Rel Howery, Vanessa Bell Calloway, Janelle James, Cabrielle Dennis, Maude Apatow, Katt Williams, Amin Joseph, Patrick Cage and more.

Find the full One of Them Days soundtrack, including the new song from Keke Palmer featured in the film, below.

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One of Them Days is the kind of comedy Hollywood used to make regularly. The film keeps the premise simple and trusts the characters to react in funny ways. Even though it is more of a rarity in today’s IP landscape, One of Them Days proves that comedy especially need not be overthought.

Dreux (Keke Palmer) works night shifts at Norm’s diner and is trying for a promotion to franchise manager. Her roommate, Alyssa (Sza), is an artist with no income. When Alyssa’s boyfriend, Keshawn (Joshua David Neal) steals their rent money for his own hare-brained scheme, their landlord, Uche (Rizi Timane), threatens to evict them if they don’t have $1,500 by 6 p.m.

That premise is no high-concept sensation. Rather, it is the simple premise that fueled many of the great comedies. They need X amount of money by X time. Happy Gilmore played golf to raise enough money.

So what’s the cinema antidote to the brutal and frozen tundra outside our doors (and let’s not get into the West Coast)? How about a raunchy, rollicking buddy comedy? Hmm, that’s usually Summer popcorn fodder, but that’s not the only “rule” that this new flick is breaking. Rather than two mismatched male comic actors, this focuses on the friendship (though strained at times) of two twenty-something African American women. That’s a nice “flip”, along with the pairing of a screen “vet” and a star from the world of hip hop (and R&b/pop). Now that’s a combo sure to end those winter doldrums, along with its “Cali” backdrop. So that’s the setting, as the principals frantically try to survive a zany twenty-four hours that certainly qualifies as One Of Them Days that will put their bond to the test.

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“One of Them Days,” starring Keke Palmer and Sza as fast-talking, flat-broke Los Angeles roommates who have nine hours to come up with the rent money, is a winning throwback to the kind of day-in-the-hood comedy they used to make in the ’90s — movies like “Friday” (1995) and “The Players Club” (1998), which squeezed just enough texture in between the laughs to qualify as crowd-pleasing slices of life. These movies, usually produced by New Line, were the descendants of “House Party” and Spike Lee (notably the exuberant opening 45 minutes of “Do the Right Thing”), though they were also a counterreaction to the dramas of inner-city violence that had dominated commercial Black cinema during the first half of the ’90s. To that genre, they offered a counterbalance of raunchy, scuzzy corkscrew humanity, teaching the movie industry a lesson — about the place where diversity meets commerce — that it seems to need to keep learning over and over again.

Few moments provoke more anxious dread for residents of The Jungles, the vibrant Los Angeles locale in which the hilarious new film One of Them Days is set, than the first of the month. Their surly landlord lurks around the apartment complex collecting rent on units in need of desperate repair. Looking for any reason to evict his long-time, mostly working-class, tenants, Uche (Rizi Timane) enforces a strict policy: If you don’t pay, you can’t stay.

So it’s a real problem when Uche tells Dreux (Keke Palmer) that he hasn’t received her rent. The fatigued waitress answers her landlord’s harsh knocks in a state of half-sleep. Uche must be mistaken, she insists, because her best friend and roommate Alyssa (Sza) paid him. It turns out that Alyssa tasked her unreliable boyfriend Keshawn (Joshua David Neal) with delivering the payment. And he, a failing serial entrepreneur,...

It’s easy to fall for the charms on display in One Of Them Days, the comedy from two first-time feature filmmakers: director Lawrence Lamont and screenwriter Syreeta Singleton. This is more than likely owed to the fact that both rising talents have worked extensively with Issa Rae, one of the film’s producers,...

Vulture Watch Is Agent Jack Decker still keeping us safe? Has the Decker TV show been cancelled or renewed for a fourth season on Adult Swim? The television vulture is watching all the latest cancellation and renewal news, so this page is the place to track the status of Decker, season four. Bookmark it, or subscribe for the latest updates. Remember, the television vulture is watching your shows. Are you?  What's This TV Show About? A live-action Adult Swim scripted comedy, Decker stars creators Tim Heidecker and Gregg Turkington. The cast also includes Joe Estevez, James Mane Jr., Mark Proksch, John Aprea, Simone Turkington, Sally Kellerman, Ralph Lucas, Jimmy McNichol, Charlie Schiefer, Manuel Giusti, and Rizi Timane. A spoof on spy dramas, the action centers on CIA Agent Jack Decker (Heidecker) who works to foil terrorist plots against the Us. This staunch conservative works with Agent...

Vulture Watch Is Agent Jack Decker still keeping us safe? Has the Decker TV show been cancelled or renewed for a fourth season on Adult Swim? The television vulture is watching all the latest cancellation and renewal news, so this page is the place to track the status of Decker, season four. Bookmark it, or subscribe for the latest updates. Remember, the television vulture is watching your shows. Are you?  What's This TV Show About? A live-action Adult Swim scripted comedy, Decker stars creators Tim Heidecker and Gregg Turkington. The cast also includes Joe Estevez, James Mane Jr., Mark Proksch, John Aprea, Simone Turkington, Sally Kellerman, Ralph Lucas, Jimmy McNichol, Charlie Schiefer, Manuel Giusti, and Rizi Timane. A spoof on spy dramas, the action centers on CIA Agent Jack Decker (Heidecker) who works to foil terrorist plots against the Us. This staunch conservative works with Agent...

We don't usually track the ratings of Adult Swim TV series, so this is a bit of an experiment for us. Likewise, the Decker TV show has been a bit of an experiment for the Cartoon Network's adult programming block. The live-action comedy first ran as a web series on AdultSwim.com, before it premiered on television, in 2016. Now in its third season on the cable channel, will Decker be cancelled or renewed for season four? Stay tuned. From Tim Heidecker and Gregg Turkington, the Decker TV show stars Heidecker, Turkington, Joe Estevez, James Mane Jr., Mark Proksch, and John Aprea. The Adult Swim cast also includes Simone Turkington, Sally Kellerman, Ralph Lucas, Jimmy McNichol, Charlie Schiefer, Manuel Giusti, and Rizi Timane. A spoof on spy dramas, the action centers on CIA Agent Jack Decker (Heidecker) who works to foil terrorist plots against the Us.